The Marquis’s Household Devours Its Widowed Heiress; the Cousin Miss Divorces and Marries the Wicked Prince

[Household intrigue + marquise’s principal wife + deep sisterly love + reborn + crushing the villains + no getting back together after a breakup]

After Xie Yuan lost both her parents, she and her elder sister, Xie Lang, went to seek refuge with their maternal grandfather, the Marquis of Yongding, in the capital.

Everyone knew the marquis’s household cherished the two young ladies and arranged splendid marriages for them.

Xie Lang married Second Master Pei and became the lady of the household.

Xie Yuan, meanwhile, married Fourth Master Pei, who spent most of the year on the battlefield.

But only Xie Yuan knew that the Marquis of Yongding’s family had welcomed them only because the Xie family was the richest in Jiangnan.

Second Master Pei doted on his concubine and kept a mistress on the side.

To save the marquis’s family from disgrace, he even drove Xie Yuan’s sister and her unborn child to their deaths.

Her own husband, Fourth Master Pei, had secretly fathered a child with the Princess of Beiliang on the battlefield.

The King of Beiliang had made it clear: the princess must be the principal wife, and in exchange he would guarantee a hundred years of peace along the border.

So everyone in Great Sheng, from the emperor to the street vendors, waited for Xie Yuan to offer to step aside.

On the day of Fourth Master Pei’s wedding, Xie Yuan died on the road back to Jiangnan, carrying her sister’s ashes.

Reborn into a new life, Xie Yuan swore she would never let her sister suffer the slightest injustice again.

She would also make the Marquis of Yongding’s family pay in blood.

But then Xiao Jingci, the reclusive prince from a different surname, suddenly emerged from seclusion.

Tall and poised, he shielded her from every attack.

Xiao Jingci: “I had no idea the rise and fall of Great Sheng depended on this young woman bearing the burden alone!”

Xie Yuan tugged at his sleeve. “It’s all right. I’m willing to divorce him.”

Xiao Jingci: “Good. Leave that pit of fire and marry me instead.”

He donned his armor and conquered Beiliang by force.

Later, Pei Xuanchi watched as Xiao Jingci supported the pregnant Xie Yuan on the high seat in the grand hall.

All he could do was kneel and address her as “Her Majesty the Empress.”