@ASDFGHJKL Have you read or heard female novels? Forbidden love, eloping and etc...The context of manga was obvious, dude is stuck between a rock and a hard place. Every concubine (those 4) would eventually want him. As for him though? He might become a mighty warrior general and his betrothal to one of them might be seen as a boon, if not all 4 of them. (Though concubine is de-facto a lover of a king so this is confusing the he** out of me as to understand who are these women towards the emeperor)