A Concubine at the Door? The Eunuch Comes to Claim His Wife

(Household intrigue + the whole family’s desperate redemption + clear-eyed heroine) Three years into their marriage, her husband has a four-year-old illegitimate son. Shen Fuyan serves her parents-in-law and pours her dowry into the household, only to have his mistress arrive at their door with her son.

That very night, the all-powerful Eunuch Jiuqian arrives with troops to stand up for her. The Chancellor’s wife, long treated with contempt, finally throws down the divorce papers. Her husband and his family coveted her dowry? She takes it all back! Her birth mother bullied her and used her to support her own children? She cuts ties with every one of them!

She slaps down one scoundrel after another, brings the flooding in the northwest under control, and drives off bandits in Jiangnan. By the time she is named a princess and is living life to the fullest, her worthless ex-husband finally comes to his senses. He abandons his wife and child and kneels outside her home for three days and nights.

A black-and-gold boot sends the scoundrel flying, making him spit blood. Eunuch Jiuqian smiles dangerously as he adjusts his sleeves. “Say one more word and I’ll have your whole family executed.”