Favoring His Concubine and Neglecting His Wife? The Principal Wife Remarries a Powerful Eunuch with Her Child

Xu Wanning married into the Marquis of Chengyang’s household twenty-five years ago and spent her entire fortune supporting her husband until he became a Presented Scholar and her son until he became the top scorer in the palace examinations. She thought her life was complete. Little did she know her top-scorer son would become the son of a pair of vile scoundrels, while her own son had been driven out of the marquis’s estate long ago and reduced to a pile of bones. She herself would also be tormented to death!

Reborn, she returns to the sixth year of her marriage into the marquis’s household. Her fake son catches smallpox and is disfigured? The scoundrel husband and his old flame fall out and turn on each other? Hiding her smile, Xu Wanning takes the imperial decree and leaves the mire with her son, ready to live well and eat her fill.

But Pei Heng, whom she unwittingly draws into her affairs, blocks her beneath a parasol tree. “Marry me, and I’ll make sure you and your son want for nothing.” Xu Wanning looks at the powerful chief eunuch. He cannot father children, and she cannot conceive, so why not join forces and share a life? But after she marries him, why does her son start looking more and more like Pei Heng?

Xu Wanning steadies her heavily pregnant belly and bares her teeth as she curses, “A man’s mouth is full of lies!”