Madam Wants a Divorce

Xia Ling was born into a wealthy merchant family in Jiangnan. Her parents doted on her, and her elder brother protected her, while she was raised in luxury to be beautiful and adorable. If there was one thing that did not go her way, it was that her grandfather had betrothed her to Lu Wanzheng, the young master of a marquis's household, when she was little.

Everyone said Lu Wanzheng was gentle, courteous, refined, and elegant, a model young nobleman of the capital's great clans.

Only Xia Ling knew that Lu Wanzheng gave all his kindness to outsiders.

To her, his wife since their wedding, he was always cold and dismissive. He scolded her for getting too close, for talking too much, for being restless, and for having too strong a desire.

He even insisted that they share a bed only once every few months, according to his rules...

Even the warmest heart can grow cold. Xia Ling no longer wanted to look at his icy face or live such a joyless life, as if she were a widow in all but name. She was going to divorce Lu Wanzheng!

She could not wait another moment...

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At first, when his wife handed him a divorce agreement, Lu Wanzheng did not care much. It was surely just a woman's theatrics to get his attention.

When she handed him a second divorce agreement, Lu Wanzheng still paid it no mind.

It was only when a few words dripping with mockery caught his eye that the unconcerned man immediately darkened his expression.

That night, he forcibly pinned her to the bed, his manner domineering and deliberately punitive.

"Say it again. Am I really a tiny, useless thing?"

All night, he left the woman beneath the bed curtains with tear-bright, swollen eyes, trembling like a flower in the wind...

Lu Wanzheng did not leave, satisfied, until dawn.

Along with the third divorce agreement came a letter.

By the time Lu Wanzheng realized what had happened, his once rather docile little wife had already eloped in the night with some other man.

Lu Wanzheng's gaze turned dark as he tore the letter and divorce agreement to shreds.

You dare to run?

After provoking him, did she think she could just walk away unscathed? Never!

1. One-on-one, both leads' first time, five-year age gap.

2. A repressed, abstinent, starched-up old-school daddy becomes a lively, cheerful, straightforward sweetheart.

3. Angsty, coercive romance plus a husband chasing his wife to the crematorium.

-- Blurb saved on November 8, 2025 --

Theme: Communicate in time, and let sincere love be answered with sincere love.