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"What's so difficult about that?" Zixi blushed with embarrassment. "You're grown up now, and you need to understand these principles of being a wife. Fighting with concubines only degrades your own status, and it's completely unnecessary."
Xiangning protested discontentedly, "If you men didn't take concubines, wouldn't there be no fighting?"
"Without taking concubines, how can we spread our branches and scatter our leaves?" Zixi shook his head in disagreement.
"Is that what big brother thinks too?" Xiangning raised an eyebrow. "Maybe I should have a good talk with Sister Min and see if she feels the same."
"You wouldn't dare?" Zixi's eyes widened in astonishment.
Xiangning pursed her lips and chuckled "hehe."
Zixi looked at his sister whose eyebrows arched like crescent moons, and stretched out his hand to touch her hair, speaking in a gentle voice, "You still have your big brother."
Xiangning's eyes watered, and two tears fell.