Cui Qingluo was the true daughter of Grand Tutor Cui, lost to the family and raised elsewhere. When she was finally found, the happy news reached the palace, and the emperor was overjoyed. He arranged her marriage to Xu Yanqing, the eldest son of the Duke of Dingguo's household.
Everyone knew Xu Yanqing was the eldest legitimate grandson of the Grand Princess. He was refined, handsome, and incomparably noble.
Everyone said that Cui Qingluo, a country bumpkin brought back from the countryside, had struck it lucky. What a shame that the noble young master Xu had fallen into the mud.
After the wedding, the two treated each other with polite respect. Cui Qingluo knew Xu Yanqing hadn't wanted to marry her, and that was fine. She didn't need him, either.
She was skilled in medicine, trained in the Valley of the Medicine King. She had returned to the capital to find her senior brother, and by a twist of fate, ended up marrying into an eminent family.
In this grand household, her mother-in-law, sisters-in-law, and sister-in-law-by-marriage took turns stirring things up. The Valley of the Medicine King had been so much freer. She especially began to consider a divorce when the heir brought a delicate cousin into the household.
As it happened, she cured the empress's chronic illness with a stroke of miraculous skill. When the empress asked what reward she wanted, Cui Qingluo asked for a divorce in front of everyone. Xu Yanqing, standing beside her, gripped her hand tightly.
Proud Xu Yanqing had never experienced being disliked by anyone.
He had thought his young wife was gentle, quiet, and easygoing. He had never imagined she could be bold and stubborn, too.
Since their wedding, she had never waited for him in the rear courtyard. After a few such occasions, he had grown irritated, too. He had assumed she would give in, but he never expected her to be bold enough to ask for a divorce.
That could have been overlooked. She didn't know the rules, and he could teach her in time. But when his second brother asked him for a Rejuvenation Pill, he finally understood why his colleagues had been giving him strange looks. How could he put up with that?
Annoyed, he stayed in the rear courtyard for the first time ever, and kept his young wife busy all night. He was young and vigorous. Why would he need a Rejuvenation Pill?!
One day, he saw her smiling brightly at the Fifth Prince and sweetly calling him "Senior Brother."
He had an epiphany. Could it be that she wanted a divorce not because of the Rejuvenation Pill, but because there was someone else in her heart she could never forget?
Blurb revised and screenshotted on April 14, 2024.
Theme: Bloom, and the butterflies will come.
