The Eldest Madam Has Already Remarried

[Cool-headed, slow-to-feel heroine who leaves her marriage] [Falsely aloof, scheming, secretly lovestruck hero]

Li Qingling spent three years married to Shen Yunyu, becoming the laughingstock of the entire capital.

Her husband's family looked down on her, and her husband treated her coldly. She had thought that if they kept out of each other's way, she could at least live a peaceful life.

Until one day, Shen Yunyu held his true love in his arms and said, "From beginning to end, you were the only one in my heart. I married her only as a temporary measure."

Li Qingling resolutely divorced him. On the day they parted, Shen Yunyu said, "Was marrying me really so miserable? Do you think you'll be better off without me?"

You needn't worry about that. Li Qingling took every bit of her dowry with her, leaving the entire Earl's residence empty and in chaos. Only then did Shen Yunyu realize that the furnishings she had purchased, along with her dowry, had filled more than half the estate.

After the divorce, the whole capital was abuzz. A dashing young playboy fell in love with her at first sight, while the aloof heir who had secretly loved her for years kept making one small move after another.

At a flower-viewing banquet, her performance of "Hujia" amazed half the capital. Her admirers lined up from one end of the street to the other.

Everyone was astonished. Wasn't she just a pretty ornament? Since when could she play the zither?

Shen Yunyu was devastated. "After three years as husband and wife, I knew absolutely nothing about her."

At a charity auction for disaster relief, Li Qingling painted "A Snowy Village in Winter" on the spot. It sold for a high price and shocked the entire capital.

Shen Yunyu was consumed with regret. "The painter everyone in the capital adores is my ex-wife? Why did I divorce her?"

Everyone said, "Because you're blind."

Later, people saw Li Qingling's former husband, the eldest young master of the Earl's residence known as a jade-like beauty, kneel in public and beg her to take him back.

The aloof heir stood to the side, secretly delighted. Regret it? Too late! She'll soon be my wife.

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All her suitors were baffled. Why had they suddenly been plagued by bad luck? One tripped for no reason while walking down the street, another went home to a beating and house arrest, and yet another had his family history investigated back three generations!

Shen Yunyu was baffled too. Why did his future look so bleak?

Lu Chengzhou said, "Well, I did all of it."

Li Qingling was puzzled. Hadn't everyone said this man was indifferent to women, and that every young lady who approached him either went mad or saw her whole family thrown in prison? Why did he get jealous over every little thing after they married, and cling to her after drinking, calling her his wife and begging her to love him more? What happened to the serious, taciturn Lu Chengzhou she married in the first place?

Lu Chengzhou: "Once you're on this ship, there's no getting off!"

[Slow-burn, everyday life]

Theme: A woman can make a life for herself without relying on romance