Married Again

Xu Jiayi was engaged from childhood to Fourth Master Xie Linghe of the Duke Zhenguo's residence. A month before the wedding, news arrived from the frontier that Fourth Master Xie had died in battle. To preserve the bond between the two families, the Xu family married Xu Jiayi to Xie Heng, the eldest legitimate son of the Xie family, and Xie Linghe's nephew.

A year later, Fourth Master Xie returned to the capital with outstanding military achievements and was appointed Grand Preceptor.

Xu Jiayi thought that her engagement to Xie Linghe had been called off by their elders. She was now a married woman, and they should each keep to their own side of the river.

But somehow, time and time again, she found herself in his hands.

Xie Linghe looked at the girl who had once gazed at him with eyes like morning dew and coyly sought his affection. Now she tread carefully in the Xie family's household, serving her elders and husband, bullied by her mother-in-law, ignored by her husband, and talked back to by his concubine. Even the servants who fawned on the powerful and looked down on the weak dared to snap at her. A cold glint appeared in his eyes.

Where had all that audacity she used to show in front of him gone?

(She marries twice. She will divorce her current husband and marry his fourth uncle.)

Theme: Persistence is victory.