The Marquis’s Wife Asks to Be Divorced

[Traditional historical romance, household and palace intrigue, angst early on and satisfying payback later, taking down scumbags and face-slapping]

A life-saving act of kindness and an imperial decree of marriage transformed Jiang Hui overnight from an ordinary, lowborn healer in Xiling Village into the wife of Lu Heng, the much-coveted Marquis of Xunan in the capital.

Lu Heng was a talented young man who had spent years fighting on the battlefield. On his way back to the capital, Jiang Hui saved him, and he promised to repay her by marrying her. Unaware of his identity, Jiang Hui happily accepted, never suspecting he was the illustrious Marquis of Xunan. To marry her, he personally asked the emperor to grant them a marriage decree.

But the grand and imposing marquis’s residence was fraught with danger. There were noble ladies ready to put her in her place, sisters-in-law who mocked her at every turn, and a childhood friend who was also his former fiancée, now living in the residence because she had once helped the family. Jiang Hui never cared, because Lu Heng loved her, and all she wanted from life was to use her medical skills to help others and spend her days with him.

But after three years in the marquis’s residence, Jiang Hui had exhausted herself trying to care for a family of ungrateful wolves. In return, Lu Heng told her he could not repay kindness with betrayal and had to marry Shen Xinyao as his secondary wife.

Jiang Hui’s heart finally died. Before the court, she petitioned to be released from the marriage and leave the marquis’s residence. The world was vast, and she would rather spend the rest of her life practicing medicine than be trapped in the inner chambers until her final days.

She thought that was how her life would end, but on the day she left the marquis’s residence, the taciturn boy from her past reached out to her with all the warmth in his heart. “Sister, Lu Heng is blind not to want you. I do.”