This is naturally impossible.
As a Minister of Rites, he is most concerned with these matters on a daily basis and naturally must lead by example. If word got out that he shared the legitimate wife's time with a concubine, even if that concubine was a gift from Your Majesty, it would be a breach of conduct.
Thus, in the new month, Guo Residence operated according to this new schedule.
Guo Jingzhi was in utter distress.
The Fifth Concubine and Sixth Concubine could be ignored.
But the Second Concubine and Third Concubine were already over forty. Madam Guo had only one standard for selecting concubines: beautiful but brainless.
This made them easier to control and less likely to compete with her.
When men are young, they might be swayed by beauty to form alliances.
But once they're used to a beautiful face, they tire of it, and as that beauty ages, even its last advantage is lost.
