A Broken Mirror Cannot Be Made Whole Again: The Marquis’s Wife Wants Only Divorce, Not Forgiveness

For three years after Zhao Shuqing married Shen Cezhou, they lived in perfect harmony, loving and devoted to one another. Shen Cezhou had suffered an injury years earlier, so every day Zhao Shuqing personally prepared a bowl of calming medicine for him. Then the woman he had once loved—the woman everyone believed had died in battle—returned. That night, Shen Cezhou sat awake until dawn. Even the medicine Zhao Shuqing had prepared for him went cold. Zhao Shuqing understood then that he had never truly let go of that woman. Not long afterward, the emperor issued a decree exiling the entire Zhao family to a bitterly cold and remote region. Zhao Shuqing knelt and begged Shen Cezhou to peti...