My Scumbag Husband Demoted Me to a Concubine? I Married a Duke, and Now He Regrets It

[The Husband's Regretful Pursuit, The Second Male Lead Takes the Crown, Rekindled Love]

To fulfill her foster sister's dying wish, Li Chengxia agreed to marry her brother-in-law as his secondary wife and raise her nephew until he came of age.

For years, she worked tirelessly and devoted herself to her husband and child, hoping she and her husband could support each other through thick and thin. But her husband's family treated her like a servant hired to care for her nephew. Her husband prized his career and status above all else. To curry favor with a princess of the imperial clan, he humiliated her several times and even wanted to demote her from wife to concubine.

Everyone outside thought she had married into a powerful family as an adopted daughter. They had no idea it was a hellhole where her life was being wasted: a vicious mother-in-law, a heartless husband, and servants who fawned on the powerful and trampled the weak...

Li Chengxia decided to cut her losses. To secure a complete divorce, she knocked on the door of her cousin from the Eastern Estate on a rainy night when she had nowhere else to turn.

"Duke, help me."

The man's expression was cold and stern as he looked down at her. "If you want me to help you, you'll have to pay a price."

The torrential rain soaked the young woman's clothes. She pulled the man, who was usually so far above her, down from his pedestal. "I can pay the price you want, Your Highness."

[The story is set in a fictionalized version of the Tang dynasty. The heroine is based on Li Chengxia, Princess Huainan, the twelfth daughter of Li Yuan, Emperor Gaozu of Tang. The hero, Feng Rang, is based on Feng Yandao, a Commandant of the Imperial Guard and royal consort.]