The Heir’s Wife Is Pregnant

The love and hate between the heir and his wife: her sworn enemy has been secretly in love with her for years

I was forced to marry my sworn enemy, Young Marquis Xie.

On our wedding night, he lifted my veil and sneered, “Even if you bear my child, I will only ever consider Rou'er my wife.”

I silently took out a divorce agreement and asked him to sign it.

Three months later, I discovered I was pregnant, and the entire marquis's estate erupted.

My mother-in-law wept and begged me to stay, while my father-in-law berated Young Marquis Xie for not knowing what was good for him.

But he only asked me with red-rimmed eyes, “Is the child from that night...?”

I smiled and cut him off. “No. It's someone else's.”

The next day, all of the capital knew that Young Marquis Xie was kneeling outside my courtyard, his voice hoarse:

“My lady, I was wrong. The child can't grow up without a father.”

The early spring breeze still carried a biting chill, but it could not dispel the red that filled the Yongning Marquis's estate. Satin pom-poms trembled on the branches, while the deafening gongs and suonas seemed ready to lift the roof. The guests' congratulations came in wave after wave, and everywhere spoke of the extravagant splendor and bustle of a wedding in a house of nobility.

But not a trace of that merriment reached the bridal chamber.

She had married him after all.

She had married her lifelong rival, Xie Heng, heir to the Yongning Marquis's estate.

The Su family were respected civil officials, while the Yongning Marquis's estate belonged to a military family of nobility. Their families had never gotten along. And Su Jin'er and Xie Heng were even more so, known throughout the capital as...