My Husband Wanted Me to Be His Concubine to Climb the Social Ladder, but I Refused

【Father-and-son regret arc + Female lead has no prior relationships, male lead does + Heroine’s adopted children are incredibly capable + Face-slapping + Punishing scumbags + The capital’s most beautiful woman at 22 vs. a devoted, scheming, icy Crown Prince】 Lu Yaoyao is the orphaned daughter of the Duke of Lu’s household. After her family is destroyed, she marries into a marquis’s household and uses her dowry to uphold the glory of her husband’s entire family. But six years later, her husband brings home a young, beautiful woman and tries to demote her from wife to concubine. Her mother-in-law and sisters-in-law, whom she has carefully looked after for six years, not only refuse to help her, but even the son she carried for ten months has turned against her like his father. Her son even says, “Sister Wanyin is young and beautiful. You’re old and ugly, with no family to rely on. You’ll only hold Dad and me back! I don’t want you as my mother anymore!” Rejected by her husband and son, Lu Yaoyao decisively divorces him and leaves the marquis’s household with her dowry. Everyone in the capital waits to see her make a fool of herself. But as time passes, they discover that Lu Yaoyao, whom they called a discarded wife, has not only become the Crown Princess, but has also raised five adopted children into talented young people. She herself now has a status everyone can only look up to. As the Crown Prince and her adopted sons and daughters dote on Lu Yaoyao, her former ungrateful husband and son weep with regret. Her ungrateful son even kneels before her and begs, “Mother, I want to come back to you. I want to be your son.” Lu Yaoyao coolly pushes him away. “Young master, do we know each other?” ////////////// The night Crown Prince Xiao Hanjing learns that Lu Yaoyao has divorced, he’s so happy he can’t sleep. He goes to great lengths to corner her against a wall. His peerlessly handsome face draws close, and he says in a husky voice: “Lu Yaoyao, you have only two choices: marry me and let me spoil you rotten, or let me marry you and spoil you rotten!”