Devoted to a Cold Heart

Jiang Wanqing, daughter of the duke, fell in love with the marquis Xiao Jingyan and married him. After the wedding he was cold to her. She bore him a son and her position in the household still counted for nothing. Xiao Jingyan brought back Su Mengyao, whom he had known since childhood, and installed her in the house. Su Mengyao moved to take the place of principal wife and to strip Jiang Wanqing's son of his birthright, and Xiao Jingyan let it happen. Jiang Wanqing left. Su Mengyao ran the household badly. The errors reached Xiao Jingyan's official career and it collapsed. He understood then what Jiang Wanqing had been to him. Su Mengyao tried to poison Jiang Wanqing, the poison reached Xiao Jingyan instead, and he saw what Su Mengyao was.