Cheater, Bow to the Marchioness

Mingyi spent six years at the front. When she comes home to the general's manor she finds Chen Shihong has married Jiang Yumian, that there are two children, and that his mother and sister have moved in and settled. The reasoning is easy enough to follow: Mingyi has no living relatives and no one to speak for her, so the household can simply be absorbed, her property along with it. She does not argue the point in the hall. She divorces him publicly, clears the manor of his family, and stops spending her name on his advancement. The military record is hers, so she petitions on her own behalf, and the title comes back as marchioness, the first woman ever to hold it. Chen Shihong's family watch the ceremony from the crowd. Prince Xiao Jingyuan has been standing quietly at her side through all of it, waiting without asking.