Cheating Men Must Die - Vol. 1 Ch. 17 - The Palace Harem is a Mess -- People can be killed by not knowing science

[MangaDex]

 

[Riri]

Imagine only being capable of acting because someone used you as a tool and thinking you can go against said person who used you

 

[Necrokora]

WTH is this paternity test... modern day men would be crying blood if it was still like that. Literally go up to a random guy and demand child support for this random kid you picked up and just do the test if he refuses. Easy Money.

 

[OmegaKaiser]

I thought she was gonna tamper the paternity blood test

 

[Meo]

Oh...that makes sense.

At first I thought she would tamper with the Emperor and Yan'er's blood test. But since they don't want to "harm" the Emperor drawing blood for him would be unacceptable. So they prick the Nine Prince's fingers instead.

 

[SaitoHimea]

I’m confuse, what is this blood affinity test? Didn’t last chapter she said something about how this is going to be okay because the emperor and the prince are blood related anyway? What is going on?

 

[Meo]

@SaitoHimea, are you talking about how Yan'er said it would be OK? I think it's because the child really is the Emperor's.

This crazy blood test thing is from ancient chinese drama, if you are related by blood the blood mixes, if not they will stay separate (related means parents ONLY, no cousins and such)

 

[unime]

... She didn't want to be favored though?
Many thanks

 

[marsbars]

It frustrates me that even after all this the Emperor is cold to Su Luxia. I cannot wait until he’s dead. 😑

 

[Berdy]

Lol.

Spoiler

Ain’t nobody trying to be favored, but she’ll go ahead and take the throne though.

 

[Chacha11]

I feel bad for the baby though.. he didnt do anything wrong. He needs to know who his real father is.

 

[Berdy]

@marsbars same. He’s such an unappreciative ass. She did so much for him and he couldn’t even respect her for it.

 

[Psychronia]

What a surprise. The guy who threw away his former favored wife without regard for their history did the same to the one he replaced her with.
Is that Liu out of the way?

I guess we're going to focus on making the cheater suffer from now on. Perfection. Nah, big sis. She doesn't want the throne anymore. She's after VENGEANCE. If you can get that asshole, feel free.

 

[shyevsa]

I thought that the blood test kinda logical because the antibody reaction (blood type group).
like when the parent has AB and the baby A, B or AB the blood will mixed together instead separated or changed color.
but if the baby is O and the parent is A or B ( its 25% chance but it can happen), the ancient Chinese blood test would fail to detect it.
honestly though I only has those speculation from movie and bare knowledge of blood type group, never hear about the osmosis thing, or experiment on it.

Anyway the MC has emperor in the making, so big Sister do your worse!!!

 

[SakuraShower]

This is kind of unrelated to the story but I really like MC's attitude. She reminds me a little of those MCs who like to screw around in ancient European times. Actually, I would quite like to read a webtoon about the MC just screwing around in Ancient China and inventing things way before their time. I know there are stuff similar to what I just said, but I swear, they just focus on food and medicine.

 

[The_DCG]

I wonder at her wearing red. Isn't wearing red a right only of wives, and fei can't wear it?

Edit: Everything I know of imperial harems and rights, I learned from To Be A Virtuous Wife and Eight Treasures Trousseau, so I ain't any kind of expert. That's why I ask questions!

 

[miyako19]

@Necrokora I am pretty sure child support is a thing that only matter in the West. The first time I heard of child support was when I move to the US. The concept is foreign to me. In most Asian countries, men aren't required to pay child support. That is why a lot of women don't want to divorce their husband even if the husband beats them everyday or is a cheating bastard. Divorcing means they will have to raise their children on their own if the court allows them to keep the children.

@The_DCG As an Asian, this is the first time I heard of that. Each dynasty has its own rule but some manhua like to make up their own rule too.

 

[pokefairy]

I feel bad for the ninth prince because he was just trying to help his one-sided love but he probably also did something bad to Su Luxia right? Right??

 

[TheDragonLord]

@miyako19 It's not strictly the US. On the other hand, in some ancient societies, men who fathered children out of wedlock were excluded from society and divorcees (like in cases where a husband was terrible/mistreated his wife she could could seek divorce) were entitled to alimony (which should have covered the costs of the child). In cases where the husband failed to have necessary funds, they could be sold into slavery/bondservant to cover the costs. Of course, likewise, wives, children, etc., were likewise sold into bondservice in other societies too. This is where the ancient traditions of "debt forgiveness" described in ancient Sumerian and other Middle Eastern and proto-European cultures came from---the freeing of bondservants and the forgiveness of debts/sins (as the term was one in the same---a corruption of later eras was the separation of them and moving away from this tradition). Seems odd that "most Asian countries lack child support" of some kind, but then again, it wasn't until the 1980s that a husband (statutorily/legally/as viewed by the law) could rape their wife. It was viewed that a husband maintain "rights" to "have sex" "at-will". Pretty fucked up if you ask me. Heh. I am curious, does this trend holds for China, South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan (about no alimony/child support existing---alimony would be afforded to cover the costs of raising children if the kid went with the wife)?

It's a this point that I feel bad for the "heroine" because she genuinely gets an extreme punishment. Likewise, if she came from the future, shouldn't she know the test wouldn't work? Likewise, the biggest issue I find with these stories is the utter disregard for life that existed amongst these "noble" and "royal" lines. It's how many if not most of the problems in society got formulated. When societies moved away from the traditions of elected kings, things really took a downhill trajectory (value of human life wise) until the democratic process started to slowly restart.

 

[Alice_Cambridge]

I know Liu Ruyan's baby is innocent
But I understand why Su luxia and Consort Shu use her baby for their scheme

Consort Shu's only son committe suicide and real Su Luxia lost her baby and can't pregnant again. All is Liu Ruyan's scheme, she harm their child so in return they harm her child