With the way the Manga referred to her, you'd think Yukiya's mom was someone with a low status especially how the praised his step-mom for raising someone who wasn't her child, but nope
So Yukiya's mom was the northern lord's second daughtet that was very sickly so they thought she couldn't have children and thought her life was gonna end some so they wanted to make her happy by marrying who she wanted
When they married, she was mostly bedbound and everyone thought she would die within a year, but she just kept living past the time they thought
But the heir issue came up, she was too sickly to have children and the plan was to let Yukiya's dad to remarry after her death so they had Yukiya's dad get a concubine (after Yukiya's mom survived for 6 years) which is the present lady of the house and the mother of Yukiya's brothers
Then the eldest son was born however no one informed Yukiya's mom that his dad was getting a concubine. And she was pissed because she grew up with mother of Yukiya's brothers so she gave birth to Yukiya then died
The issue of inheritance came up because Yukiya read a difficult poem before his eldest brother did, everyone from the Heads of the north and his relatives thought that Yukiya should be the next lord not his elder brother. Since Yukiya is of higher standing due to his birth mother
Everyone was also talking shit to his step-mom's face and blaming his dad for the death of his mom
So Yukiya decided to act as incompetent as possible to stop
With the way the Manga referred to her, you'd think Yukiya's mom was someone with a low status especially how the praised his step-mom for raising someone who wasn't her child, but nope
So Yukiya's mom was the northern lord's second daughtet that was very sickly so they thought she couldn't have children and thought her life was gonna end some so they wanted to make her happy by marrying who she wanted
When they married, she was mostly bedbound and everyone thought she would die within a year, but she just kept living past the time they thought
But the heir issue came up, she was too sickly to have children and the plan was to let Yukiya's dad to remarry after her death so they had Yukiya's dad get a concubine (after Yukiya's mom survived for 6 years) which is the present lady of the house and the mother of Yukiya's brothers
Then the eldest son was born however no one informed Yukiya's mom that his dad was getting a concubine. And she was pissed because she grew up with mother of Yukiya's brothers so she gave birth to Yukiya then died
The issue of inheritance came up because Yukiya read a difficult poem before his eldest brother did, everyone from the Heads of the north and his relatives thought that Yukiya should be the next lord not his elder brother. Since Yukiya is of higher standing due to his birth mother
Everyone was also talking shit to his step-mom's face and blaming his dad for the death of his mom
So Yukiya decided to act as incompetent as possible to stop