Commandery Princess Qing Rong

(Also known as: My Lady, Dump That Scumbag and Come Back to Me)

The Qingrong Commandery Princess of the Prince of the Commandery’s manor.

Admired for her beauty at dawn, watching willow branches droop at dusk. Beautiful and noble by birth.

Many sons of prominent families sought her hand.

Yet she left her family and home to marry a poor scholar, defying all opposition to wed the top-ranked candidate in the palace examinations. Outsiders could only grudgingly call them a well-matched couple.

She shed her noble status and endured the hardships of a life in exile.

Following her husband to his outpost, she endured a turbulent, difficult life, tossing and turning night after night.

She had trusted the wrong man. For three years, she pawned her meager dowry to support the household and suffered every hardship. When her husband’s term of service ended and they returned to the capital, he ingratiated himself with the Grand Tutor’s daughter, cast aside the woman his family had rejected for his sake and who was no longer useful to him, and took another wife while still married to her.

After years away, she returned and was reinstated as the Qingrong Commandery Princess. She had wealth and status, but she had also grown world-weary.

“Have you ever regretted it?”

“I never regretted loving him.”

“Oh?”

“I would have gone through fire and water for him, simply because I loved him. I don’t regret loving him, but I regret that our love was an illusion, empty as a mirage. I regret wasting years of my life,” she said, her voice catching. “And I regret making someone else’s wedding clothes for her.” Her eyes glistened.

“Oh? Were the wedding clothes beautiful?” the man asked, feigning indifference.

“They were woven from years of my blood and tears,” the woman replied expressionlessly.

Fortunately, after all the years and upheavals, there was still a man who had silently loved her, ready to save her when her heart had withered. It turned out that having faced despair wasn’t the end of the world. Thankfully, a ray of light still awaited her. Even after loving the wrong person, she could still turn back.

Fortunately, this time, she did not let him down.