The Legitimate Daughter of a Noble Family Strikes Back

At fourteen, Lu Qingyao was brought from her hometown to the imperial capital of Xuancheng to marry in her younger sister’s place. She was wed to Shen Yubai, Marquis Yuning, the great general hailed by all as a god of war. She had hoped to spend her life in loving harmony with her husband, but on their wedding night, she was left alone in an empty room. Three days later, she returned to her parents’ home by herself, becoming a laughingstock to thousands and the target of countless jeers! Her own younger sister even asked when she would be thrown out of the marquis’s estate and whether she should save her a corner of the woodshed to sleep in. Only after enduring all this humiliation did Lu Qingyao learn that her husband had a woman he cherished above all others. For that woman, he sent an urgent message over eight hundred miles, killing three warhorses to deliver lychees to her. He even abandoned his usual composure and got into a fight with someone over her. At last, Lu Qingyao let go of her obsession and stopped caring about it all. But her husband, whose heart belonged to his cherished woman, suddenly came to his senses Shen Yubai: “My lady, His Majesty has bestowed this new fabric upon me. I had a new outfit made especially for you.” Shen Yubai: “My lady, I’ve been sleeping in the study for several nights now. I wonder if… My lady, don’t go! I’ll sleep in the west wing again tonight.” After Lu Qingyao went out several times over the course of half a month, Shen Yubai questioned the steward and learned that his wife’s childhood sweetheart had been promoted and was sending her calling cards every day to ask for a meeting. That very day, the marquis urgently summoned all his officers to the estate. Everyone stood at attention, only to hear the usually composed and cold Marquis Jing’an ask, “Gentlemen, when you make your wives angry, do you kneel on blades, carry thorn branches on your back, or do both?” Before long, everyone knew that the decisive and ruthless Marquis Yuning was a henpecked husband who always obeyed his wife.