My Scumbag Husband Demoted Me to a Concubine? I Married a Duke, and Now He Regrets It

[The Husband's Regret, The Second Male Lead Takes His Place, Rekindling an Old Flame]

To fulfill her foster sister's dying wish, Li Chengxia agreed to marry her brother-in-law as his second wife and raise her nephew until he came of age.

For years, she worked tirelessly, devoted to her husband and child, hoping to build a life of mutual support with her husband. But his family treated her like a servant whose only purpose was to care for her nephew. Her husband valued his career and reputation above all else. In order to curry favor with a royal county princess, he humiliated her time and again and even planned to demote her from wife to concubine.

Outsiders thought she had married into a powerful clan as an adopted daughter. None knew it was a hellhole where her years were wasted: a vicious mother-in-law, a heartless husband, and servants who fawned over the powerful and trampled the weak...

Li Chengxia knew when to cut her losses. To secure a complete divorce, she knocked on the door of her cousin from the Eastern Household on a helpless, rainy night.

“Duke, help me.”

The man's brows were stern, his gaze imperious. “If you want me to help you, you'll have to pay a price.”

The rain poured, soaking the young woman's clothes. She pulled the man who had always held himself above everyone else down from his pedestal. “I can pay whatever price you ask.”

[The story is set in a semi-fictionalized Tang dynasty. The heroine is based on Li Chengxia, Princess Huainan, the twelfth daughter of Li Yuan, Emperor Gaozu of Tang. The hero, Feng Rang, is based on Feng Yandao, a consort to a princess.]