Song Ci is not entirely hostile towards the concubines; in reality, it's not like that. If you look at her behavior towards the two concubines of the Elder Lord Song, it's almost like treating them as younger sisters. She never established strict rules for them or humiliated them. They never lacked food and clothing. The only harsh measure was not allowing them to have children, but wasn't that a mutually agreed-upon trade-off?
As for the concubine Shen from the palace, it's not like she was overly warm to her, but she wasn't particularly hostile either.
The only one she couldn't stand, the one she disliked, was the seemingly innocent and pure Bai Shuilian, whom she regarded as a typical "white lotus."
Perhaps Song Ci was biased from the start. She had acted in many dramas before, and read many books, so she was not at all unfamiliar with such manipulative villainess types, instinctively feeling that this woman was not simple.
