My White Moonlight Has Returned, and the Marquis Is Fighting to Win Her Back

[Marriage First, Love Later + Groveling for His Wife + The Hero Has the Husband’s Place but Acts Like a Mistress] After ten years of being abandoned at an estate and forgotten, she was finally brought back to the capital, only to be married off in her elder sister’s place to the heir of a marquis’s household. Deng Yuanwei meekly accepted and married the heir without a hitch. The very next day, news arrived that he had died in battle. The household descended into chaos, but she remained calm. If she had lost her husband, so be it. She had only entered the marquis’s household to find a way to cure her poison, anyway. But after searching the entire household to no avail, she was struck by a poison attack one night. A man in black burst in, and while treating his wounds, she couldn’t resist licking the blood on his abdomen. To her surprise, it eased her symptoms. When she learned he was the heir who had faked his death, Deng Yuanwei began using sweet words to coax and tempt him, playing along with him so she could cure her poison, then escape the marquis’s household once she’d achieved her goal. Cheng Yan knew his wife had entered the marquis’s household with an ulterior motive. To spare his elderly grandmother any sorrow, he and Deng Yuanwei came to an understanding: he would help her find an antidote, then set her free after his grandmother passed away, allowing her to be with Su Yunqing, the censor-in-chief. But as the days and months passed, he found his gaze lingering on her for reasons he couldn’t explain. He was especially bothered whenever he saw her laughing and chatting with Su Yunqing, the two of them perfectly in sync. At last, when she was about to leave the marquis’s household and elope with her lover, he rode out of the city with the Black Armor Guards and stopped her carriage. His eyes bloodshot, he asked, “Why have you stopped using me? Who leaves after taking everything, the way you have?”