Some Broken Mirrors Can't Be Mended: The Marquis's Wife Seeks Divorce, Not Forgiveness

[Divorce without forgiveness + groveling chase + both leads are each other’s first]

For the three years since Zhao Shuqing married Shen Cezhou, they had been deeply in love and perfectly in tune.

Shen Cezhou had been injured years ago, and every day Zhao Shuqing brewed him a bowl of calming medicine.

Then his old flame, once presumed dead in battle, returned. He sat alone all night, and the medicine went cold.

Zhao Shuqing knew he still hadn’t let her go.

The emperor ordered the entire Zhao family exiled to a bitterly cold frontier.

Zhao Shuqing begged Shen Cezhou to seek the emperor’s pardon for her severely wounded second brother.

But instead, he secured an imperial decree of betrothal: he intended to take his old flame as his secondary wife.

So Zhao Shuqing stopped hoping she could warm his heart.

She decided to divorce him and stand with her family through whatever came.

A month before leaving, Zhao Shuqing asked to be dismissed from the marriage and begged the marquis for a divorce letter.

She mocked herself, saying, “Your old flame is of noble birth. It would be far too much to ask her to settle for being a secondary wife.”

Shen Cezhou thought Zhao Shuqing was just speaking in anger, and swept away.

Only when Zhao Shuqing began making arrangements for the wedding did he suddenly demand, “Are you really willing to let this happen? Aren’t you angry at all?”

How laughable. Zhao Shuqing didn’t answer, calmly continuing with the preparations.

Red filled the hall, dazzling and painfully bright.

The day Shen Cezhou married his old flame would be the day Zhao Shuqing left the capital.

The officiant called for the bride and groom to bow to one another. Beneath her veil, the old flame smiled radiantly, with brazen confidence.

But Shen Cezhou suddenly felt as if something were missing from his heart. Why was he so uneasy?

He searched the room, but Zhao Shuqing was nowhere to be seen.

In that moment, panic seized him…