Throughout the dynasties, there were many vassal states that were willing to send their women to the palace as concubines as a gesture of friendship. By the time of Yuan Shikai, as his power grew, North Korea also gave him a 17-year-old princess as a concubine. However, because the princess could not accept the many rules of the Manchu Qing, the princess felt that it was better to live than to die, and finally chose to commit suicide.
It turned out that among Yuan Shikai's many wives and concubines, one of them was the Kim clan from North Korea. Although the Qing Dynasty had fallen at that time, all kinds of stereotypes and bad habits still existed, so after marrying this princess, she naturally had to abide by it like yuan shikai's other women. However, what was different was that her feet were much larger than those of Yuan Shikai's women, and she was ridiculed and ridiculed by these people for this.
In fact, they are not born with small feet, and they have taken foot-binding measures the day after tomorrow. One might ask, wouldn't this North Korean princess do the same? In fact, foot binding basically began when she was a child, and since she was 17 years old at this time, it was too late to do it. However, Yuan Shikai's wife, Lady Shen, could not tolerate this, believing that since the other party had married, she was no longer a Korean princess and had to abide by the rules of the Qing Dynasty.
In her opinion, the most basic thing is that you must wrap your feet so that you can follow the local customs. However, considering Kim's age at this time, she also deliberately relaxed the size limit on foot binding. Rao is like this, and the Kim family still can't stand the intense pain. Because Mrs. Shen gave her only that kind of embroidered shoes, she learned to "step on inches" in a disciplined manner.
Where has Kim seen this kind of world in North Korea, she was quickly tossed and turned, but Mrs. Shen still refused to give up, and the inhuman torture she suffered could only be understood by herself. What is even more excessive is that Lady Shen herself cannot have children, so she bullied this princess from North Korea and forcibly raised her son on her own behalf, but the Kim family could not do anything about it.
Hearing her own son, calling out to her mother every day at the knees of others, her heart would be broken, which was worse than letting her wear small shoes. However, as a foreigner, she came to the Qing Dynasty and was helpless, and her mother's side could not support her at all, and she could only be bullied by Lady Shen, who had a stronger family power.
Of course, the key person who led to the tragic fate of the Jin family was Yuan Shikai, because he soon had no fresh feeling for this woman, and he did not care about her being bullied. All of this is superimposed, so that Kim's complete loss of confidence in life, in despair she can only choose to die to relieve.