Husband-tormenting romance + tragic love + elder brother-in-law
The war on the frontier was growing desperate, but the national treasury was empty. The marquis had no choice but to arrange a marriage for his eldest son, Yin Chugui, and personally seek out Shuyue, the daughter of a wealthy Jiangnan merchant, as his daughter-in-law, hoping to secure military funding.
Yin Chugui knew he was likely to die when he followed his father to war. Not wanting to hold back such a wonderful young woman, he gave his fiancée to his second brother, along with his title as heir.
Eight years later, when he and his father returned in triumph, his second brother had a wife and children of his own, but the woman he had once given up was nowhere to be seen.
Everyone said she had eloped with someone three years ago. Now she returned, bristling with hostility,
asking only three things of the marquis household: first, identify the adulterer; second, grant her a divorce; third, return her dowry.
The marquis could only pretend to be ill to avoid her, leaving his eldest son to handle the matter.
Now she was dazzling, and didn’t even care what her father-in-law thought, let alone what her brother-in-law thought of her…
As they spent more time together and sparred with each other, he began to feel something for his sister-in-law again. But his second brother, who had once treated her as worthless, had now begun a desperate campaign to win her back.
How could he take the woman he loved, who had belonged to him from the start, back from his second brother…?
In the end, she finally secured an imperial decree granting her a divorce, but with three conditions: first, walk barefoot across three zhang of burning charcoal; second, surrender all her property; third, cut off her hair and become a nun.
Can the heroine endure it…?
The heroine is so strong. The hero is too silent