"Isn't that the truth? It's basically like being locked up. Women, that's the shitty part of being one. Ten months of pregnancy, lugging around a giant ball, and once that ball bursts, there's even more crap to worry about, and you'll never get to relax for the rest of your life. But even if it's that hard, you still have to have kids, right?? If you don't have kids, you can barely even be counted as a woman; without a child, no matter how stunningly beautiful you are, you still can't keep a man's heart… Oh right, you know about Consort Yang, yeah? Consort Yang was so gorgeous, so favored, but just because she didn't have children, Emperor Tang Xuan had her hanged at Maweipo…"
Yan Xixi stayed expressionless. "Exactly. And not just Consort Yang. None of the Four Beauties had a good ending, and the biggest reason was that none of them had children. Whether it's Xi Shi or Diao Chan, if they'd had kids, they wouldn't have ended up like that…"
