He Dotes on His Concubine, I Cut Off the Money, and the Entire Marquis's Household Panics

[Household Intrigue + Political Scheming + Female-Led Power Fantasy + Devoted 1v1 Romance] Shen Qing followed her mother’s dying wish and married into the Yangling Marquis’s household as its mistress. She kept to her duties, never fought for favor, and never competed with anyone. Yet before they had even been married a year, her husband publicly welcomed the woman he loved into the household. The ceremony was so grand that it surpassed even the one held for Shen Qing, his legal wife. After always behaving by the rules since her marriage, Shen Qing suddenly understood: her mother had been wrong. A woman’s gentleness and kindness did not necessarily earn her respect and consideration from her husband’s family. Sometimes they only encouraged endless encroachment and brazen entitlement. If that was the case, there was no reason for her to keep playing the virtuous, gentle mistress of the Marquis’s household. If a favored concubine grew arrogant and forgot her place, Shen Qing would slap her until she remembered who was in charge. If her husband was two-faced and deceitful, she would expose his true nature and make sure he could never again pretend to be a man of noble virtue. If her mother-in-law was cold-hearted and cared only for money, Shen Qing would cut off her allowance and leave her unable to keep up the airs of a highborn lady. As for Shen Qing? After putting the entire household in its place, she would take her million-tael fortune and marry her beloved in grand style!