I Married the Abstinent Chief Secretary as a Substitute Bride. Reborn, I Refuse to Be the Clan Matriarch

For years, Qin Yunsu has managed the household as a substitute bride. Gentle, kind, and dutiful, she is praised by everyone in the capital as the finest of wives.

But to her, the position of matriarch of the Shen family is like arsenic.

In her previous life, she followed every rule and devoted herself to serving her family, yet received not the slightest kindness in return.

Her mother-in-law looked down on her low birth, while the clan members all had their own schemes.

Even her own son was raised not to recognize her as his mother!

And her husband, distant and indifferent to her, showed nothing but tenderness toward her widowed elder sister, who had come to seek refuge.

When her son married on her deathbed, it was that very sister, who had ruined her life, who took her place at the head of the table!

Reborn into a new life, Qin Yunsu decides she will no longer make herself suffer.

She writes by lamplight at night, her belly swollen with child, and resolutely sets down a few words:

Divorce Agreement

Shen Shizhang is refined and upright, a gentleman like an orchid.

After years of marriage, despite his wife's beauty and gentleness, the events of that year have left a thorn in his heart.

But when he sees her laughing and chatting with another man, with no trace of him in her eyes, the usually cool and self-controlled Lord Shen begins to lie awake night after night.