I Quit Being the Marquis’s Wife: The Masked Coroner Becomes the Capital’s Most Renowned!

A female coroner well versed in the law + the second male lead takes the lead + a groveling pursuit to win her back Xu Lingqing married Fu Xingjian at sixteen. She was his legal wife for six years, and for those same six years, she secretly worked as a masked female coroner behind his back. Everyone said she was blessed: her husband had a bright future, and he had neither concubines nor bedchamber maids. No one knew how stifled she felt beneath that so-called good fortune. Her widowed sister-in-law harbored ulterior motives, bent on having Fu Xingjian support both branches of the family. Then his childhood sweetheart, the woman he’d always loved, returned to the capital, and the two flirted right in front of Xu Lingqing. When she so much as asked about it, Fu Xingjian shot her a look of utter disgust. “Be a proper marquis’s wife and don’t meddle in anything else!” Her heart slowly turned cold, and she focused solely on examining corpses and solving cases. After a murder case was solved, her face covered, her husband stopped her. He said, “I’ll grant you the status of co-wife. From now on, you’ll be the only one. I’ll never touch another woman.” Xu Lingqing gave a quiet snort, finding it all deeply ironic. She hadn’t been able to get that promise in six years as the marquis’s wife. But just by covering half her face, she’d gotten it so easily? Too bad she didn’t want it anymore. She asked for a divorce. In court, as Fu Xingjian angrily insisted she would regret it, she accepted the judgment and put on her face veil right there. “Fu Xingjian, take a good look at me. Who am I?” Fu Xingjian felt as if he’d fallen into an icy abyss. “If I’d known you were Coroner Shen, how could I have divorced you? Madam, come home with me. You’re the only one who can be the marquis’s wife!” “Madam? Marquis Fu, you must be mistaken.” As her words fell, the new emperor’s powerful minister approached Xu Lingqing with an imperial edict, his eyes full of fervor. “The emperor appoints you a female scholar, granting you permission to examine corpses and investigate cases wherever you go, and to right every injustice under heaven. And one more thing...” “When will you give me a proper title?”