The Princess Consort scoffed, fiddling with the prayer beads in her hand. "Even if Shen Wei gives birth to a child, with her lowly background, she can only be a concubine. Does she really think she could become a secondary consort?"
Any child born to a concubine must be handed over to the Princess Consort to raise.
When the time came, the Princess Consort would deliberately employ some underhanded tactics to turn Shen Wei's son into a timid and useless weakling.
"You are most wise, Your Highness," Granny Liu said as she applied medicine to the Princess Consort's wounds. "However, there is another troublesome matter. Miss Ye from Jiangnan has sent word that she has taken refuge with relatives in Yanjing and refuses to enter the palace as a concubine."
The Princess Consort's fingers, which had been idly rolling the beads, stilled.
Ye Qiushuang refused to become a concubine?
