Demote Your Wife to Concubine? I’ll Remarry a Memorial Tablet, and You’re the Stand-In, Scumbag!

After four years of marriage, Xiao Yuanyu said he had no interest in women and wanted them to sleep in separate rooms. Xue Furu endured four years of a loveless marriage without complaint. She swallowed her grievances to serve her parents-in-law and even used her dowry to help support the household, managing everything day after day to preserve the marquis household's dignity. It wasn't until Xiao Yuanyu went to Jiangnan and returned with the fake heiress, whose pregnancy was just beginning to show, that Xue Furu understood. Xiao Yuanyu wasn't impotent. He just couldn't perform with her. “You secretly schemed to make me marry you back then. Now all I'm asking is that you give up your position as my principal wife and become a concubine. I'm already being merciful.” “You haven't borne a child in four years. Do you want the Xiao family to die out?” “Xuru is pregnant, so naturally she's more precious. If you fail to take proper care of her in the slightest, you'll kneel in the ancestral hall.” … Xue Furu's heart died too. She turned and knelt before the old madam. “Old Madam, I'm willing to give up my position as principal wife and marry the memorial tablet of Ninth Uncle instead.” The title of eldest daughter-in-law of the marquis household? She didn't want it anymore. Her beloved had died, and Xue Furu started to give up on everything. Her lecherous father-in-law wanted to take a concubine? She stopped trying to talk him out of it. Her spoiled sister-in-law wanted to get married? She stopped finding a match for her. Her sharp-tongued mother-in-law asked for money? She stopped managing it. The marquis household descended into chaos, and the fake heiress, now its eldest daughter-in-law, was so busy she miscarried. Meanwhile, Xue Furu's dowry businesses were thriving. But when her scumbag ex-husband learned he'd only ever had a substitute, he regretted everything and knelt, begging her to give him another chance. The man who had always worn a secret identity and stayed in the shadows couldn't hold back anymore. “Xiao Yuanyu, how dare you disrespect your Ninth Aunt? Go kneel in the ancestral hall!”