Also known as: The Clear-Headed Princess Consort Divorces to Build Her Own Career, While the Prince Weeps in the Ashes of His Pursuit
[Married first, love later + the husband pursues his wife after the divorce + rekindled love + romantic rivalry]
For five years after marrying Su Jingxing, I was nothing more than a prop in the royal family’s model marriage.
He dallied among the flowers; I managed the household. His heart belonged to someone else; I smiled and let him have his way.
Everyone praised me for my virtue, including him.
That was until the day I overheard him plotting with someone on the other side of the wall, discussing how to drug and ruin my best friend.
Only then did I understand that our five years of marriage had been nothing but my own sincere devotion.
It takes only an instant for a heart to die. I plotted my counterattack and asked to be sent away. From then on, there was no longer a Princess Consort of Prince Yi in the capital.
Later, I was seen saving lives during an epidemic in the northern frontier, and teaching by lamplight at a bookshop in Jiangnan.
He chased me to the edge of a cliff, took a blade for me, and fell. In his unconsciousness, he murmured, “Lingyi… don’t go…”
I saved his life, but on the day he awoke, I handed him divorce papers.
He asked in a trembling voice, “You used to accept me taking other women. Why can’t you now?”
I didn’t answer.
Because I didn’t love you before. Now I do, and I can no longer tolerate even the slightest shameful thing.
One-line summary: Love whoever you want. This princess consort is done!
The transparent and sober heroine chooses dignity over love and dignity, but it is precisely because she chooses dignity and love herself first that she can reap her own love. Why do two good people in the traditional sense have trouble managing a marriage? Sometimes, it is a problem that requires two people to think about it together. The story shows a group of ancient women. There is no intrigue, but they are all moving forward within the constraints of the times. The princesses who left and the women who stayed behind each have their own choices. There is no so-called superiority or inferiority, but they are all the best solutions for the moment.