The Madam Wants a Divorce

Male Substitute Romance / Chasing His Wife to the Crematorium / The Untouchable Turns into a Ghost

*An austere, self-denying patriarch VS a young madam whose heart belongs to someone else

Amid the ridicule of the world, Cui Yin married into the prestigious Yuan family, becoming the wife of Second Master Yuan, a man as noble as an orchid and as unattainable as a tree high in the clouds.

After their wedding, she swallowed her grievances and did everything she could to please him, learning to be gentle and virtuous, and mastering every rule expected of a clan matriarch. But five years into their marriage, her husband remained cold toward her. They slept in separate rooms, and he showed no affection even for the child she had risked her life to bear.

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The Yuan family was an eminent clan of ministers and nobles, with a strictly ordered household.

Yuan Yun had been the model aristocratic son from childhood: upright in character, disciplined, and scrupulous in his observance of ritual. He should have married a dignified noblewoman from a family of equal standing at the proper age. Instead, he was forced to marry Cui Yin, a frivolous, ill-mannered daughter of the Cui family.

After the wedding, he watched everything Cui Yin did with cold indifference, allowing her to be ostracized and isolated in the manor, and watching her make a mess of her life.

Day after day, he gradually grew accustomed to her presence, and to the frank love she showed him.

Later, he thought that for the child's sake, perhaps they could live together in harmony after all.

When did the truth come out?

Probably that day, when his wife lost control after drinking. In the throes of passion beneath the bed curtains, she kissed his face, but called him by the wrong name.

"Zhao Lang..."

The Yuan family patriarch, who had risen to the highest ranks of court, slowly opened his eyes. His flawless, cool jade-like face stiffened, then shattered, inch by inch.

That day, Yuan Yun finally learned

that his wife had never loved him. She loved the face he shared with the man in her heart.

[Female Protagonist's Perspective]

After the man with whom she had privately pledged her life died, Cui Yin tried all sorts of ways to follow him in death.

Until she met Yuan Yun.

If the person you love most is dead, then marry someone who looks most like him.

Here's a story I'm hoping to write next.

Bittersweet angst + coercive pursuit

Naturally wicked, thoroughly evil, sinister aristocratic dragon VS a quiet, honest, gentle, and kind young widow

1.

Zan Chun suspected that her husband wasn't dead.

No, not her husband, her late husband.

The one who died in the war seven years ago.

Before long, Zan Chun received another secret letter. It contained only a few words: "Beware the person in your bed."

Zan Chun didn't believe it, of course.

Back then, she was a poor widow. She should have died alongside her late husband during the war, but Ji Xian had saved her again and again. He had even defied everyone's objections to marry her, giving her a safe home. All these years, he had never complained that she had borne him no children.

While she was fretting and at a loss, wondering how she could face her late husband if he really was alive, and what she should do about her current husband...

she noticed that her husband had become unusually busy too.

Batch after batch of porcelain was being sent to his study.

Every day, her husband went out early with his troops and returned late, apparently searching for someone...

2.

Back then, Ji Xian had entered Chu alone. His whereabouts were accidentally exposed, and he was ambushed and gravely wounded.

In the vast snowfall, a frail young woman struggled to carry him across the snow. As he hovered between life and death, the tip of his icy nose caught the warm fragrance at her nape. She rescued him and hid him in a woodshed. For ten days, while he lay gravely ill, she got up at night to feed him porridge and care for him herself.

Through a wall, Ji Xian listened to her and her husband whisper intimately together.

He heard her husband call her by her childhood name.

So her name was Zan Chun.

Zan Chun, Zan Chun...

At night, as he breathed in the scent of soapwort that lingered in her bedding, he silently repeated her name over and over on his lips.

Her husband didn't deserve her.

[Content Warnings]

Extremely over-the-top melodrama. The male lead is sexually inexperienced but truly evil, and the female lead has a former husband. Her marriage to him ended before she got together with the male lead.

Theme: People must have the courage to break free from adversity and persevere.