Damn, I am so happy that the author went with all three wives and paulina being chill and friendly with each other even if the plot seems to be in keeping with real history like empire building crap, or at least a gloss of that real stuff to keep things believable.
Reiterate: glad the 3 wives generally get a long and paulina be a major pillar in that.
But I'm wanting some non irl type wisdom showing up too. How awesome would it be to see lucius making practices and creating traditions that'd solidify the wives to him as his family and also set a incentive for the noble families to raise their daughters with more education.
Like all he'd need to do would insist that the wives be the primary teachers of all children regardless of source. He'd put some scholars to keeping everyone honest (probably wouldn't include the schoolar in the manga) but each wife would be a specialist in her region. That simple act would encourage the noble families to include their daughters into the higher education and governmental knowledge in order to influence the next generation. It'd be a big net positive, not a big enough one but a good start down the road by forcely getting girls the recognition of being equal in intelligence to their brothers. Little things like that would be great to see