Mei Wanying didn't beat around the bush with Pei Yan and laid her thoughts out plainly.
"I haven't fulfilled the duties of a wife, yet I'm asking you not to have any other women. If you can't accept that, then... let's just call it off."
Once you enter the palace gates, leaving again is nearly impossible.
It's a place of flashing blades and hidden daggers, impossible to defend against. Anyone who isn't hard-hearted would find it difficult to survive deep within the palace.
Without Pei Yan's support, Mei Wanying wouldn't be able to take a single step. How could she protect herself and Ling?
She believed Pei Yan's feelings for her were true, but she also knew that true feelings aren't eternal.
'In the maelstrom of power, how long could love really last?'
Wanying had no answer to that question.
If she were alone, she could bear the consequences of any misstep herself without dragging anyone else down with her.
But she wasn't.
She had her mother and Ling.
