You Demote Your Wife to a Concubine? I'll Find Another Husband Who'll Make You Call Me Mother!

【Household Warfare】【Punishing Scumbags】【Careful Scheming】【Rising Through Cunning】 Jiang Muli, legitimate daughter of Duke Jiang, and Pei Zexuan, heir to the Marquis of Zhongyong, were childhood sweethearts envied by everyone in the capital. But a month before their wedding, Pei Zexuan broke off the engagement in public, declaring that he would only take her as a concubine. The woman he truly loved was Zhou Ruoruo, the valiant female general who had just returned from the battlefield, daughter of General Zhou. How could a noblewoman allow herself to be treated with such contempt? Jiang Muli immediately changed the person she was to marry and severed their old ties. A month later, she sat smiling in the place of honor as Pei Zexuan knelt before her, trembling as he called her “Mother.” From then on, the Marquis of Zhongyong’s household was turned upside down. His father no longer trusted him. His wife beat him black and blue. He lost his position as heir. His friends drifted away, no longer willing to associate with him. Meanwhile, Jiang Muli steadily took control of the marquis’s household and rose through the ranks, wielding its power. Before long, she was the talk of the town. At his most wretched, Pei Zexuan drank an aphrodisiac and crawled in humiliation to Jiang Muli’s feet, begging for her favor. Pei Yanqing kicked him aside. “You beast! How dare you disrespect your own mother? Throw him out of the marquis’s residence at once and let him fend for himself!”