As compensation, he also sincerely treated these wives as family.
Because he needed family.
He needed affection.
Since they supported each other, leaned on each other, warmed each other, they were family... Li Yuan was even willing to suffer some grievances to move them, even willing to let them take advantage, let them bully him at will.
But family cannot be added just casually. For instance, Gu Xuejian, he had no intention of touching her at all because Gu Xuejian was of no use to him...
The women on the scrolls sent by the Commanders were the same.
Li Yuan knew these women must be very good and outstanding, some might even be better than the wives in his home, but... he simply didn't want them.
The world is full of countless flowers, each one lovely, but if they don't grow in his garden, they are just ordinary flowers to him.
He finds them beautiful but wouldn't bend over to pick them unless he truly encountered one he considered overwhelmingly beautiful...
