The Marquis's Peppery Wife

“How about this? I’ll take care of the troubles you’re facing, and you’ll deal with the troubles in my household. In three years, we’ll divorce and go our separate ways. Would you agree?”

“Deal.” Better to be a temporary wife than be forced to become the concubine of that heartless scoundrel.

And so, the spirited daughter of a down-on-his-luck merchant family marries into a marquis’s household, becoming a fake couple with the Duke’s legitimate son.

But there’s no end of trouble in a noble household: a stepmother, a secondary wife, and three or four concubines, none of them easy to deal with.

“Husband, we have too many opponents. Don’t you think we should renegotiate our agreement?”