A Second Wife in My Household? I'll Marry the Prince Regent and Become the Talk of the Capital

On the night of their wedding, her husband received orders to go to war. For three whole years, Gu Ruqing devoted herself to caring for her mother-in-law. To preserve her husband's family's dignity, she even used her dowry to help the poor on several occasions. Who could have expected that the first thing her husband would do upon returning in triumph was take his childhood sweetheart, newly widowed, as his secondary wife, and force Gu Ruqing to go to the palace herself and request the emperor's decree! She flatly refused, thinking her husband would give up on the idea. She never imagined he would hold a grudge instead. He even blamed her entire family for the tragic death of the woman he loved. In the end, her father and brothers were branded traitors, her mother was violated and left to die in a chaotic alley, and after being beaten to vent his rage, Gu Ruqing was abandoned in the snow to die. When she opened her eyes again, she was back on the day the scoundrel planned to take a secondary wife.