Drunk on the Jade Branch

Chu Linlang had never imagined that she would one day divorce her husband. After all, in the eyes of many, she was of humble birth and shallow experience—a sparrow that had climbed onto a high branch, unworthy of her dashing and talented husband, a newly favored official of prominence. Since she had managed to cling to such a high branch, having endured years of hardship along the way, naturally she would hold fast to it forever. Now, she had been in the Zhou family for eight years, supporting her husband through his years of arduous study—a model of wifely perseverance. Her husband was young and accomplished, treating her with the utmost respect, his future boundless. Beneath her knee was...