"I'm only trying to understand her because I'm concerned that she may become a formidable enemy of North City in the future."
"Mr. Wang, you actually think of me as the type of man who only thinks with his lower half; you're maliciously speculating about me."
In this era, women held a lower status, bound by the principles of obedience and virtue, but this was relative.
Rules were made by those in power, and when women held power, they could completely disregard those rules.
Men could have multiple wives and concubines in this era, and powerful women could have multiple men just the same.
Not to mention the Empress, even the princesses of the Daxia Imperial City who were married off played the field, keeping male consorts was nothing unusual, and as for the princess's husbands, unless they were from grand families, they too, just had to endure silently.