He Spoils His Concubine and Discards His Wife? The Marchioness Quits

On their wedding night, Zhao Qi got dead drunk. The next day, he requested permission to suppress bandits, and after that, all word of him vanished.

For six years, Gu Yuwei dutifully cared for her mother-in-law and managed the household, bringing order to a once-impoverished marquis’s residence.

Six years later, Zhao Qi returned from the dead. Gu Yuwei thought her long wait had finally paid off, but to her surprise, he came back with a woman and two children.

To win Zhao Qi’s favor, Gu Yuwei not only persuaded her parents to adopt the woman as their goddaughter, but also took both children into her own name and raised them with care.

She hired the best tutors and governesses, giving the children every advantage.

In the end, she raised them into the most dazzling noble young lady and young gentleman in the capital.

But Gu Yuwei never expected the children not only to be ungrateful, but to resent her deeply.

“It’s because you stole my mother’s place as the principal wife.”

“You’ve tormented us for all these years. Now it’s time to pay you back.”

Living her life over again, Gu Yuwei finally saw the light. From then on, she would no longer live in such misery just to please her husband.

This time, Gu Yuwei decided to live for herself.

She could do without a faithless scumbag husband, and she could stop raising those ungrateful brats.

She would make everyone who bullied, humiliated, or betrayed her in her previous life pay for it.

Gu Yuwei thought she had returned solely for revenge, but then a man of noble status stopped her along the way.

“Yuwei, I can never repay you for saving my life. So I’ve decided to offer myself to you.”

Gu Yuwei: “...”