My husband fell in love with the top courtesan of a pleasure house and swore he would spend his life with her, devoted to her alone.
I did everything I could to object:
"Bring a pleasure-house girl home, and your wife will hang herself."
I was the legitimate daughter of a distinguished scholarly family known for its integrity. I threatened to die, putting an end to the courtesan's chance of entering our household.
Unable to bear the humiliation, the courtesan hanged herself.
Twenty years later, the first thing Zhao Huan did after inheriting his title was frame my family for colluding with the enemy. He divorced me and forced me to work as a courtesan, enduring the humiliation of a different man every day.
In the end, I died in a mass grave, where even beggars violated my corpse.
"Lu Qingyi, your whole family owes Yunshang a life."
When I woke again, Zhao Huan was bringing the courtesan home to marry her and divorce me.
I smiled and agreed:
"Father-in-law, Mother-in-law, please allow your daughter-in-law to divorce my husband. From now on, he can marry and I can marry, and we will have nothing to do with each other!"
