Three years ago, Song Jinghao, the eldest daughter of the Duke of Qingguo, married into the Marquis of Zhongyi's household with a lavish bridal procession.
For the man she loved, she stepped into the public eye to manage the household and kept the increasingly declining marquisate afloat for three years.
But three years later, her scumbag husband brought home a seductive foreign widow with a child in tow, and forced Song Jinghao to bow her head and accept the woman as his equal wife!
When she refused, he threatened to impeach her for being a shrew, demote her to concubine, and use his military achievements to make the woman his wife!
Her wonderful husband said, "So what if she was once a widow and has a four-year-old daughter? She's carrying my child and saved my life. Taking her only as my equal wife is already a great injustice to her! If you won't agree, then be my concubine!"
Her wonderful grandmother-in-law said, "My dear child, you're so young. You shouldn't be this jealous. Listen to your husband and accept her as your sworn younger sister so she can join the family. Besides, she's the Holy Maiden of the Southern Tribe. Doesn't your ducal family benefit from that too?"
To marry the widow, her scumbag husband got the whole family to take turns playing dirty tricks.
Fine, fine, fine. This was the ungrateful family she'd poured her heart and soul into raising!
On the first day her scumbag husband returned, Song Jinghao decided to divorce him. But before she left, she would take back what she'd lost a hundredfold!
Today, she cut off the old madam's thousand-year-old ginseng. Tomorrow, she exposed her mother-in-law's secret theft. The day after, she sent her fake sister-in-law off to a foreign land for a political marriage, and while she was at it, revealed her ex-husband's shameful origins...
After turning the entire marquisate upside down, Song Jinghao calmly divorced him.
Her ex-husband was so furious he wanted to kill her, but she walked away without looking back, carrying thirty thousand strings of cash. To everyone's shock, she was soon seen with Xuanji, the world's most aloof Daoist master, and was denounced as a wicked woman marrying for the second time.
But after the nation weathered its crisis, the woman everyone had cursed and condemned became the empress!