Reborn as the Crippled King's Beloved

Chapter 359 - 359 359 You Are Truly a Heavenly Immortal-like

?Chapter 359: Chapter 359 You Are Truly a Heavenly Immortal-like Figure Chapter 359: Chapter 359 You Are Truly a Heavenly Immortal-like Figure Murong Jiu had also thought that Sikong Wan was like any other girl, her heart filled with youthful affection, but she did not expect that Sikong Wan actually harbored an extraordinary heart, aspiring to become a Female Teacher.

She was unwilling to be confined to the inner quarters and had her own ideals; she was a woman of great ambition.

Murong Jiu felt pleasantly surprised.

The people of the time all believed that a woman’s lack of talent was a virtue. They thought that women should devote themselves to supporting their husbands and teaching their children, remain within the inner courtyard, and not show their faces in public. Some even touted that a true example of a woman was one who never stepped out of the inner door or crossed the threshold of the outer door, wishing they would never leave their bedchambers so they could be regarded as truly pure and flawless.

How pitiful.

It was common for men to have multiple wives and concubines, yet women were shackled with layer upon layer of constraints.

Inappropriately, she recalled what Jun Yuyan had shared with her during a heart-to-heart not long ago.

Jun Yuyan had said that the war in previous years had claimed the lives of many soldiers, many of whom were already married. With their deaths, the living had to move on. Some women, young in age, had already become widows, and yet society insisted that they remain widows for life. The Imperial Court even erected chastity arches for women who had been widowed for many years, as though it were a great honor.

This forced those women who did not wish to spend their lives honoring an empty place, pressured by family, friends, and societal norms, to waste their youth and lock themselves away for life.

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