The Unbroken Decree

Rong Zhizhi climbed three thousand steps on her knees to obtain life-saving medicine for her husband. Yet when he returned after earning military merit, he brought back a pregnant foreign princess—and demanded that Rong Zhizhi surrender her position as his lawful wife and become a concubine. “Manhua is a princess, and she is carrying my child. What is wrong with giving her your place as my principal wife?” “My son is not divorcing you. He is merely asking you to become a concubine. That is already an act of mercy. Once you leave the marquis’s estate, where would you not be despised?” “Although my brother is demoting you from wife to concubine, as long as you give me your dowry for my own ...