Here is interesting fact about this manhwa. Same author wrote another one called " Back To Rule Again" about boy who is living in post apocalypse zombie world, his girlfriend cheats on him with bad guy and kills him, using magic ring he reincarnates minutes before zombie apocalypse started with super duper fight skills and tries to redo his life. Sounds familiar, its identical to this story except its female MC isekaied in historical China. Zombie apocalypse, cheating husband. Mc isekaied using magic ring and using her super duper fighting skills proceeds to gain power and take revenge.
Can someone explain ranking in this manhua, its so complicated. MC is the oldest daughter of official wife and is ranked first. Lian Shiya who was only a daughter of a concubine, who although favored was not an official wife, so she was ranked low. Now Shiya was promoted to third ranked lady and started to pull rank on MC. But MC is still ranked first, still above her, so why does Shiya demands MC bow to her. Even if MC does not take her seriously, other ladies do and go "Shiya is a noble now, so MC should bow to her." How come?
so basically siyue's mum is the da furen (the main 1st official wife) and shiya's mum who WAS a qieshin/concubine got promoted to secondary wife so while she is an official wife she ranks below the da furen. like if we bein historically accurate n throwing out the drama them shiya's mum could never rise above that. but for this dramatic webtoon since siyue's mum was poisoned/"sickly" he handed the power over to his qieshin (before shiya got title and promotion) so ho was going around acting like the zheng furen/official hostess of the household and upon the promotion she thought her ass was rly gonna be able to off siyue n her mum and become the legit da furen. much lols. and yeah the court rank thing; no matter your position in the household if you gain a court rank from the emperor that basically trumps anyone without a title or with a lower title
Question to someone who knows their Chinese history. First, these stories are about Ancient China are supposedly about Tang dynasty, right? During that time, what kind of relationships did emperial families have? Usually, the emperor had multiple children (3rd prince, 12th prince, etc.) and sometimes from multiple wives. Did the eldest son of legal queen automatically became crown prince, or was it more cut-throat competition between all sons of the legal wives? What happened when a new emperor ascended the throne, did he kill off all his brothers from other mothers or even from same mother, to avoid competition? Or was it more like European royalty, where young princes got titles, land and position of power and were not a competition but a support to their king?
actually dependant because there were definitely some princes that would just live elsewhere and govern that area so they would be alittle bit like subordinates of the emperor but then they were definitely times where the emperor would just choose to kill all of his brothers in order to maintain his power. crown prince was definitely a position where all the sons would compete for rather than it always being the eldest son getting it.










LMAO! Just like a soccer game. " The bouquet is heading towards the duke! Look at bride's face! Look at duke's! Duke skillfully evades the bouquet!". Its so funny