In The Queen of Virtue, the family environment of American and Indian masters.

The Silla era in which Shi Mei lived should still be the late matriarchal society. People generally paid less attention to chastity, but paid more attention to women's fertility.

Shi Mei can hold the seal because she can predict the solar eclipse, which shows that her social status has a certain theocratic nature. At that time, the nobles generally believed that combining with women with divine power could be protected by the gods. (This identity is a bit close to the goddess prostitute in the history of the Middle East)

Both her mistress and husband, even the monarch who had an affair with her, took a fancy to her ability to unite the whole aristocratic group. So it is not so much that she got married first, then found a lover and served the monarch, but rather that men took a fancy to her communication skills and ambitions, so they spontaneously gathered around her. When Zhenxing Wang tried to kill her, other people who didn't want to destroy the alliance joined forces to kill the dying old king.