After Being Cheated On, the Goddess Heads North to Revive Her Homeland

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“Legal wife?” He sneered and strode closer, the scent of dragon’s-breath incense mingling with alcohol washing over me. “As the principal wife, what’s so shocking about your husband taking a secondary wife to bear him an heir? We’ve been married two years. Have you given me even one child?” His voice dripped with scorn. “You occupy the position of principal wife without fulfilling your duties, yet you have the nerve to meddle in your husband’s affairs? Have you no shame?”

“No shame?” His words were a poison-tipped blade, severing the last thread of my self-control. The loneliness of spending two years alone in an empty chamber, the careful questions in my parents’ letters, the increasingly dismissive looks from the palace servants... All my grievances and fury surged up at once.

I took a step forward. My voice was quiet, yet everyone in the hall could hear me. “You seized your subordinate’s new bride, then exiled the wronged Marquis of Yongchang to the frontier! Is this how a prince of the imperial house should behave? Is this the way of ruling taught by the sages?”

“I want no part of this marriage.”

With those words, I ignored the commotion behind me and turned to leave.