Xu Fengnian’s principal concubine is Lu Chengyan.
Lu Chengyan is the granddaughter of the Lu family, one of the four major families in Qingzhou. She is well-educated, gentle and virtuous. She lit a life-changing lamp twice for Xu Fengnian, exchanging her own life for his. Regarding Lu Chengyan, this woman’s appearances in the book are very limited.
The Lu family was originally a prominent family in Qingzhou. Later, the family moved to Beiliang, on the condition that Lu Chengyan became the princess of Beiliang. And Lu Chengyan's ability to change from a side concubine to a main concubine must have had its beginnings.
Character introduction:
Beiliang Princess Lu Chengyan was born in the Lu family of Qingzhou, the family of princes and generals. Her father was Lu Dongjiang, the governor of Taixi County, Qingzhou. Her great-grandfather was Li Lu Feiqi, the most famous leader of the Qing Party in the Yang Dynasty, came from a prominent family. Lu Chengyan was well versed in music, chess, calligraphy and painting since she was a child. When Lu Chengyan was a child, he was told by a fortune teller that he and Xu Fengnian, the prince of Northern Liang, were "matched in their horoscopes, and they were a match made in heaven." Lu Chengyan married Xu Fengnian, the prince of Northern Liang, under the arrangement of Lu Feiqi, the ancestor of the Lu family. Before his death, the ancestor of the Lu family made the decision to move the whole family to Beiliang in order to increase Beiliang's political power. The only condition was that Beiliang needed to give Lu Chengyan the title of Beiliang's royal concubine.