The Virtuous One Drops the Act! She Divorces Her Husband, and the Heir Goes Wild Chasing Her

[Delightfully Cutthroat Household Battles + Marriage First, Love Later + The Husband's Road to Regret] [Terminally Ill Heroine Awakens vs. Highly Intelligent Older Hero, Two Strong Personalities Collide] For twenty years, Yan Qingwan had been a dutiful daughter, a virtuous wife, and a mother-to-be. Then a diagnosis of terminal illness landed in her lap. She had only a year left to live. To hell with being a good wife and mother! She was done pretending! Her vicious mother-in-law humiliates her? She makes her so furious she faints on the spot, then has her carried away. A bullying servant takes advantage of her? She beats them and throws them out onto the street. Her family keeps leeching off her? She ties up anyone who comes, one at a time, or in a bundle if two show up! The whole capital is waiting to laugh at her? She storms in with reckless swagger and flips the whole table! Gu Xuanzhao is a duke's heir with power over the court, aloof, noble, and arrogant. For three years of marriage, he treated her coldly and distantly, seeing her as nothing more than a docile ornament. He thought she would spend her whole life keeping her head down and revolving around him. That is, until a divorce letter came flying straight at his face. Gu Xuanzhao: “Yan Qingwan, you won't get the chance to regret this.” Yan Qingwan: “Regret is for dogs!” After divorcing him, Yan Qingwan makes one triumphant comeback after another, dazzling the entire capital. The newly crowned top scholar defies an imperial order for her, a young general invites her to join him beyond the frontier, and an elegant young lord falls for her. Powerful nobles of every stripe scramble to win her favor. She's surrounded by admirers and living life to the fullest. But just as she's about to leave for good, the man she once treated as worthless blocks her way, his eyes red. The once-arrogant heir sheds all his pride, putting on a coquettish act as he rasps: “My lady, don't choose them! I'll be good, I'll act cute, I'll be your dog. Woof!”