Manbao said, "You have to be alive to leave behind bloodline. If you die, whether it's adopted children or children your husband has with concubines, they won't be his own bloodline."
Lady Mei said, "Since Young Master Fang joined our Mei family, he takes on the Mei surname. The children he has count too, and we can raise them ourselves since childhood with the Mei surname, so it's not much different from our own."
Manbao was dumbfounded; even she, who considered herself open-minded, couldn't help but admire Lady Mei's magnanimity. She imagined for a moment that if Bai Shan dared to have a child with a concubine and told her the child would now follow her mother's Xia surname, she would break his legs, even if she didn't beat him to death.
