The Divorced Wife

This novel will be going premium on February 21, when a 10,000-word chapter will be released. Please continue to support it! Jiang Zhilu's husband had been keeping a mistress behind her back. It wasn't really such a big deal, just something that made her uncomfortable. After all, she'd once defied her family for him, and he'd promised that she would be the only woman in his life. But hearing him say to her face that he was tired of her, and hearing him mock her in bed with his mistress, was truly heartbreaking. After the mistress became pregnant, her husband's family welcomed her back with drums and fanfare, completely forgetting about Jiang Zhilu, the proper wife. At the concubine's instigation, her greedy, ignorant mother-in-law, her cowardly father-in-law, and her husband's stubborn arrogance all came to light. If you have no love for me, then I will leave. She had no intention of remaining in that den of wolves, and wrote a letter of separation to ask to leave. She set up a little stall using a craft passed down in her family, only to have a man pester her on the very first day. He was two heads taller than her, yet he hugged her and complained that his father didn't love him, his mother didn't care for him, and his brothers bullied him every day. His dewy eyes bewitched her into believing him. It wasn't until he picked her up and held her like a little chick that she realized how absurd the whole thing was. Is it too late to take it back now? -- The court officials noticed that His Majesty the Emperor had recently been absent from the palace all the time. When they asked the servants attending him, every one of them looked unwilling to say a word. One day, the Chancellor heard his wife going on about a newly opened sesame flatbread shop at the end of their alley. There were always too many people, so she could never buy any. Since court had adjourned early, he made a special trip there. The flatbread was indeed fragrant and crispy, but could someone tell him who that man eagerly wiping down the tables was? Why did he look so much like His Majesty? Business at the flatbread shop kept getting better, and Jiang Zhilu was delighted. A certain emperor, however, was not so happy. When he saw two of his ministers and three deputy ministers in the queue for the eighth time, he finally exploded. That evening, all the court officials gathered for a secret discussion. The topic was: How to subtly win over the future empress without letting His Majesty find out! Entry for the comeback-themed writing contest, "Born with Talent, Surely Put to Use": The heroine, Jiang Zhilu, leaves home for a man when she is young. When she discovers that he has been keeping a mistress behind her back, she finally comes to her senses and ruthlessly dumps the scoundrel. Relying on her talent for business, she makes a comeback and builds her own commercial empire. Here's a new story I'm planning to write next: The Stolen Golden Branch Blurb: In the fifth year of Jingwu, the emperor went incognito on an inspection tour and brought a woman back to the palace. No one knew who she was or where she came from. People only said that her face was as lovely as peach blossoms and impossible to forget. The very next day after she returned to the palace, she rose to the top and was named Imperial Consort. The whole realm was in an uproar, and the imperial harem descended into chaos. The woman had lost her memory, and His Majesty personally bestowed the name Qing Xun. "Qing Xun, I await your return" showed just how deeply she was favored. Since her arrival, no one in the harem could see the emperor, yet Qing Xun remained cold toward him. The feeling that he could neither hold on to nor keep her drove Su Zeyu mad. Just as he was about to make her empress and abolish the harem despite the court officials' opposition, he saw his younger brother rushing back to attend the empress's installation ceremony. In the imperial garden, his brother held her in his arms with tears in his eyes. They clung to each other so tightly that jealousy drove him to the brink of madness. Only then did he learn that his Qing Xun was his younger brother's betrothed, his own younger sister-in-law. Their engagement had been granted by the late emperor, and just before they were to be married, she had been attacked and ended up by his side. She regained her memory at that very moment. The two of them knelt at his feet and begged him to let them be together. He magnanimously agreed and arranged a farewell banquet for them, watching as she happily drank the wine laced with drugs. Second upcoming novel: The Noble Concubine Blurb: Zhaozhao was the concubine of Jiang Huaixing, the richest man in Jiangnan. She did not know where she came from or remember her past, and she did not even know whether her name was real. Jiang Huaixing had bought her from someone else on a whim, treating her as a plaything. Jiang Huaixing looked down on her status, yet he couldn't bear to part with her beautiful face. So, while he trampled her into the dirt, he also forced her to spend every night with him. Zhaozhao saw him as her salvation and her only support. No matter how unreasonable he was, she would smile and put up with it. Over time, he came to believe that no matter how badly he treated her, Zhaozhao would never leave him. That was why he dared to tell her outright that he was going to marry, and warned her to remember her place and behave herself from then on. He never expected his fiancée to put Zhaozhao in her place at their very first meeting, slapping her so hard that her face stayed swollen for three days. He felt sorry for her, but did not speak up on her behalf. He had only meant to test her reaction, but never expected the outcome to be so devastating. Zhaozhao disappeared, vanishing as suddenly as she had appeared at his side... When they met again, she was still called Zhaozhao, but now there was a surname in front of her name: Yan, the surname of the royal family of Dacheng. She was no longer his concubine, but the most honored eldest princess in the empire, The Outcast, second only to one and above everyone else. Her time with him had become the most humiliating memory for that untouchable woman, but he could no longer let her go. Theme: If you have no love for me, then I will leave