[The Ex-Chases-His-Wife-to-the-Crematorium Trope: Pei Fangche]
[Divorced and Never Looking Back: Song Ying]
[A Ruthless, Murderous Climber Who Fights for Every Inch: Qi Yan]
When Pei Fangche, heir to the Ding'an Marquis Household, was so ill he was close to death, Song Ying married him.
After Pei Fangche recovered and the emperor once again entrusted him with important duties, he told Song Ying, "Qingyue is back. I want to give her a title."
Su Qingyue was Pei Fangche's childhood sweetheart.
When Pei Fangche was gravely ill, Su Qingyue fled the capital.
More than a year later, Su Qingyue returned with a two-month-old baby and smiled at Song Ying. "Sister, this is Brother Che's son."
The old madam of the Ding'an Marquis Household summoned Song Ying and said, "My household has no place for someone as unfeeling and ungrateful as Su Qingyue. If you can't stop this marriage, then your younger brother has no reason to go on living."
Her husband wanted her to arrange his marriage to a second wife, while his grandmother wanted her to sabotage the match.
Song Ying was a concubine-born daughter of the Song family. Her mother had died, she had no one to rely on, and there was no one to stand up for her. She couldn't afford to offend either of them.
But even if she couldn't afford to offend them, she still had to find a way to survive between them.
The wicked little prince climbed over the wall and barged into her room in the dead of night. He pulled Song Ying into his arms, eyes red, and gritted out, "Am I dead? Can't I stand up for you?"
Qi Yan had raised Song Ying when she was little.
He had raised her to be his wife. Then he left for three years on campaign, and came home to find the world had ended: his wife had married someone else!
Qi Yan gritted his teeth. "So what if you're married? What if I force you to marry me?"
On the eve of Qi Yan and Song Ying's wedding, Pei Fangche got dead drunk and knelt before Song Ying. "Yingying, I was wrong. Can we please not divorce?"
Qi Yan climbed over the wall and barged in again, kicking Pei Fangche to the ground.
