Tang Su looked up at Lu Han, puzzled; she somewhat failed to grasp the meaning of his words.
What did he mean, his mother was not much nobler than he?
The next second, Lu Han provided her with an explanation.
"When my mom was with my dad, in the eyes of others, my dad was a man with a wife. In that era, the commands of parents were akin to imperial edicts, and moreover, marriage wasn't about the certificate or the feelings between two people, but the actual facts."
Tang Su nodded; she hadn't experienced that era of factual marriages, but she had read descriptions of it in the university library.
In that particular era, there was great restraint between men and women. Even holding hands in broad daylight could make a man responsible to go to the woman's house to offer a betrothal gift and the like.
The dowries of that era, compared to today's, were much simpler; owning the 'big three' items meant one was quite well-off.
