You Bring a Second Wife Home? I’ll Marry the Prince

At eighteen, Jiang Wanning married into the Marquis of Loyalty and Valor's household as the legitimate daughter of the wealthiest family in the capital. On their wedding day, her husband, Chen Zhangzheng, was away on an imperial order to suppress bandits. Without hesitation, she offered one hundred thousand taels of silver. He promised her, “Ning'er, when I return, I will never let you down for as long as I live.” A year later, he returned victorious, but brought another woman with him and bluntly declared that he intended to take her as his equal wife. The woman was the daughter of the Yangzhou prefect, and she had earned merit alongside him in the campaign against the bandits. She was now awaiting the emperor's appointment as a county princess. Chen Zhangzheng looked at Jiang Wanning with contempt. “You manage the household, while Zilian handles things outside it. You're only a merchant's daughter. What do you know about the social dealings of noble families?” Remembering how her previous life had ended, Jiang Wanning felt a chill in her heart. Back then, she had refused to yield, and her mother-in-law had driven Chen Zhangzheng and his mistress out of the marquis's residence. Jiang Wanning had thought her mother-in-law was protecting her, until, on her deathbed, she asked Jiang Wanning to adopt Chen Zhangzheng's two children. Jiang Wanning had devoted herself to raising them. Her adopted son became the top scholar, and her adopted daughter became empress. But all that awaited Jiang Wanning was a blade at the executioner's block. It turned out her mother-in-law had coveted the Jiang family's fortune all along. Reborn, she would never make the same mistake again. When Chen Zhangzheng tried to force her hand, Jiang Wanning gave a cold laugh. “If you want to marry her, divorce me first!” She turned and left the marquis's residence, heading straight to Prince Yu's manor. Facing the prince who had just returned from the northern frontier, she boldly declared, “I'll offer half the Jiang family's fortune as my dowry. Your Highness, will you marry me?” Yuwen Yu put on a stern face and declared righteously, “I am no man who covets wealth!” But the moment he turned around, he raced to the palace and begged the emperor for an edict granting their marriage.