Jin Wang Dotes on His Concubine

forming political alliances, and causing political unrest.
While the small matters ranged from visiting prostitutes, being lax in running the household, and indulging towards servants who committed violence.
So minor matters like these could be brought up by the censor, yet who would’ve expected that he’d get reprimanded instead?

   But as a result of this incident, those who should understand naturally would.
As for those who shouldn’t, they’d come to the seemingly apparent conclusion that Jin Wang was favoured by His Majesty.

   Anyways, it was well known by those in the capital that there was an unrivalled side consort in Jin Wang Manor.
Naturally, people couldn’t help bringing up the old matter of Jin Wang not being close to women and likely being interested in men.
Rumours floated around that Yaoniang must have the appearance of a goddess, that her beauty must outshine the moon and even put flowers to shame.
Otherwise, why would Jin Wang, who had always been clean-hearted with few desires, go to such lengths to dote on a woman?

   Even heroes are weak to a beauty’s charms.
The hero used to be distant from women simply because he has yet to meet someone gorgeous enough.

   All in all, many different rumours were spread.
But because of these rumours, not even a whisper of Jin Wang’s name was heard among the list of princes wishing to marry the young miss of the Wang Family.

   …

   One of these admiring and envious gazes belonged to Wang Defang.

   The Wang Family’s carriage happened to be at the back of the line so they’d need to wait for a long time.
To be honest, with Elder Wang’s reputation in court, it wasn’t impossible to skip the line and many people were willing to make room for them.
But Elder Wang was extremely conscious of appearances and gave strict orders to the family not to use their power to bully others.
This was why the Wang Family could only wait in the back, impatient.

   A total of two carriages were from the Wang Family.
Eldest Madam Wang and Second Madam Wang, each with their own daughter-in-law, shared a carriage.
The three young misses from the main branch were seated in another.

   So not only was Wang Defang sitting in this carriage, but also her two younger sisters.

   Normally, shu daughters weren’t of high enough status to attend these kinds of occasions.
But before leaving the manor, Wang Zi spoke up, asking Eldest Madam Wang to bring along the two shu daughters.
His excuse was to have them see the world, but to put it bluntly, all he wanted was for them to steal her limelight.

   Not only did he want them to steal her limelight, but her father was utterly bewitched by that concubine of his.
After hearing the recent rumours floating around the capital, that woman also wanted her own daughters to climb onto the dragon and follow the phoenix.
Yet she didn’t even take a good look to see if their faces were worthy of that.

   At the mere thought of all this, Wang Defang wished she could throw the two people out of the carriage for contaminating her air.

   “What is seventh sister looking at?” Wang Shuying asked with a curious gaze.

   She and Wang Shuyan were twin sisters.
The two sisters looked exactly the same.
Unless they dressed differently, most people wouldn’t even be able to recognize the difference between the two.

   But Wang Defang could recognize them.
She could tell the two of them apart even with her eyes closed by simply listening to their voices.

   Despite the smile on her face, Wang Defang’s eyes were full of impatience.
“I wasn’t looking at anything!”

   Wang Shuying wanted to continue but was stopped by Wang Shuyan, the elder twin, pulling on her sleeve.

   Wang Defang glanced at the two of them.
“I don’t mean to admonish you, but you must behave yourselves in the palace.
This is not Jizhou.”