A Second Wife Joins the Household? After I Asked to Leave, the Chief Minister's Eyes Turned Red

Tang Anru was born the eldest daughter of a concubine in the Prince of Qiongbei's household. She married Xiao Changyi, the legitimate eldest son of a respected scholarly family in Lanling. Her mother-in-law disliked her, and her marriage was loveless, but she managed the household affairs and served her mother-in-law with painstaking care.

On the day Xiao Changyi reached the highest office in the cabinet, he brought home his cousin, a disgraced female official. His mother decided to elevate her to the status of a co-wife and let her take over the household from Tang Anru.

Xiao Changyi came from a family of scholars and was a prodigy in his youth. He reached the cabinet's highest office at twenty. His only stain was Tang Anru, his legal wife.

He said, “A wife must not be jealous. She must know her place, be filial, virtuous, and follow the rules.”

He did not care about having children!

Tang Anru did everything he asked. Even when her mother-in-law made her kneel in the snow for two hours in the dead of winter, she never uttered a word. She always put him first and the Xiao family first. She was the perfect wife.

But gradually, he discovered that this little wife, who had lowered herself into the dust, had a dead man in her heart. The reason she could agree not to have children was that she was keeping herself chaste for him.

At Yinyang Pass, she rode out with whip in hand and single-handedly held the line with the battered soldiers and veteran generals. The entire camp came to call her “Master.”

When she presented him with a divorce agreement, every word ringing with conviction, he finally understood: his wife was a blazing sun in the sky, while he was the dark cloud that had blocked it. (He was blind to the truth.)