Rape, killing a pregnant woman, genocide...

I must admit, I am kind of hoping our MC dies a horrible death. When you consider the amount of innocent blood on his hands, he is one of the most deserving of death in the novel.

The first concubine was a girl that was assigned as his handmaiden when he first arrived at his fief and to put it bluntly he r*ped her. Now while it wasn't violent he used his authority to pressure her into s*x that she clearly didn't want. This character isn't explained very well if I'm being honest. She was the quiet shy type and so we didn't really get much dialogue out of his and couldn't understand her very well. But I ended up liking her character a lot.

At one point in the series, the MC moves his capital to another city he built and begins to live there. He tries to take the handmaiden with her but she refuses and he leaves her be reluctantly and goes to visit her when he has the time (which isn't much) She has two kids with him, both of which he almost never gets to see because she won't leave the city and come to the capital. Finally, when his first son was maybe around six he visits them to find out that his son is a little tyrant and does whatever he wants under the threat that his dad will have them beheaded. He also finds out that the reason the handmaiden wouldn't leave is because she has complete control over this town as the highest-ranking member staying there as his concubine. He gets extremely angry with his sons behavior and has him taken away from her and given to one of his subordinate's families to raise as his wife is known for being very strict with her children and they don't tell her who the child is and say he's an orphan. He does this in hopes that his sons behavior is corrected.

Now it is important to note that the MC has announced that no matter if his child is born from a consort of the main wife he will give all of his children equal opportunity to succeed him based on their ability to rule and character.

The handmaiden believes that her oldest child should be ruler because he is the eldest, ignoring the fact that she is only a concubine.

To sum it up his son doesn't improve and even gets worse until finally something happened to the MC and everyone thought he was dead. One of his closest servants betrayed his wishes and used his oldest son to lead a rebellion and try to make the son the new head of the family. The rebellion involved trying to kill his Main wife and other concubines and children and his closest subordinates as they all knew the MC would never have wanted his oldest as the heir. The MC returns, promptly puts down this rebellion, and executes his son in front of the populace. Afterward, he had The handmaiden secretly assassinated as he knew she was actually the orchestrator of this rebellion. Now this was just one of his concubines

I've already spent too much time on this so I will explain the other women briefly.

His second concubine originally swore an oath of celibacy as she wanted to be like her adoptive mother and devote her life to research as a great scholar. She however eventually succumbed to seduction and agreed to have s*x with the MC. He wanted to make her his main wife but she refused and also stated her two children would give any rights as heirs and they wouldn't even take his name as she wanted them to carry on her mother's legacy.

The other two concubines were the most boring. It was a pair of aunt and niece that he met at an orgy. I don't remember their backstory too well but I think the niece was being forced to marry into another family in order to keep her family alive because her parents had died and her brother was too young to rule. I believe the MC backed her and helped her family so she finally agreed to become his concubine. The aunt was just tacked on. She liked him and was going to be with him no matter what the niece decided to do.

Finally, his wife is quite nice. She was a fighter that was originally his enemy that he beat in a fight. She became interested in him after she lost to him and started to go visit him more and more. Originally the MC was annoyed by her and didn't want to have anything to do with her but the more he spent time with her the more he began to like her. The problem was that her grandfather was silent enemies with the MC and that made the situation rather complicated. Eventually, her grandfather basically offered her up to the MC to try to force the MC into giving the grandfather something he wanted. This hurt her rather badly and she ended up betraying her grandfather and running away to marry the MC without f*cking him over as the grandfather wanted.

Synopsis: The MC goes from a poor exiled "spare" heir into the greatest, most powerful lord ever seen, easily capable of taking on the rest of the empire, and shaping the course of the world.

During this course of events he fails to spend enough time with his waifus and children, resulting in his first child becoming a rotten "silk pants" rapist/mu*derer/robber "Young Master".

MC executes his first son, shocking the other nobles, and regrets not being a better father.