Spring Affairs in the Marquis’s Household

After years of marriage, Cui Lingrong always believed she was happy. Her husband respected her, they had sons and daughters, and she firmly held the household accounts in her hands. She once thought Song Shulan was simply devoted to his official career and indifferent to romance, but that their hearts were still in accord. Then she returned home from mourning a relative to find that Song Shulan had taken a secondary wife. Her mother-in-law told her, “You should be more understanding,” and Song Shulan said only, “It’s necessary for my future.” She lowered her eyes and swallowed all her bitterness in silence. But one rainy night, she learned that the secondary wife was Song Shulan’s unattainable first love, while she herself had been nothing more than a convenient prop in his life. So, the year she received her noblewoman’s title, Cui Lingrong asked for a divorce. ~ Song Shulan never imagined that his dignified, impeccably proper first wife would one day reveal such an expression in another man’s arms: cheeks flushed, eyes sparkling, alive with a charm he had never seen before. “Lord Song,” she said, her voice soft and cool, “we’re strangers now. What gives you the right to question me?”