He's Taking a Second Wife, While I'm Slowly Falling Out of Love with Him

[Female Lead Has a Past, Male Lead Has None | Second Male Lead Wins | Rivalry for Her Ends in Regret]

A beautiful young wife; an older powerful official

Seven years ago, I gave up everything and eloped with Xie Qingyuan, a poor scholar of humble birth.

Seven years later, he had risen to power as a high-ranking official. Thinking me old and faded, he slapped me over a clay figurine fan gifted by the woman he loved, then tried to force me to become his concubine.

At the palace banquet, unaware that I was carrying his child, he handed me poisoned wine himself. “It’s probably a stillborn anyway. Think of it as helping me humor Amei.”

I drank it in one gulp and resolved to divorce him.

When we met again, I was the long-lost only daughter of the Grand Princess, noble beyond compare.

The “moonlight in his heart” whom he had been determined to marry had her future ruined by his own hand. He knelt outside my door in the pouring rain, staring at my slightly rounded belly with eyes wide with anguish.

That should have been his child.

Pei Jin, a man who held power over the whole court, stood behind me with an umbrella, shielding me as he looked at Xie coldly. “Lord Xie, Yaoyao is my wife now.”

Xie Qingyuan went mad, but this time, I would never look back at him again.