Chapter 315: Chapter 315: Suffering Wife vs. Homewrecker (1) Chapter 315: Chapter 315: Suffering Wife vs. Homewrecker (1) “The female protagonist of this world…” Gu Shengyin finished reading the information, and it left her feeling awful.
The female protagonist, Liang Chenyu, was Qi Country’s Grand Tutor’s Mansion’s legitimate daughter, who had a well-known beauty. At the age of fourteen, she was married off by His Majesty to the Crown Prince of Zhenbei, Qin Yuanzheng.
This marriage from Grand Tutor’s Mansion was personally sought by the Old Princess Consort of the Prince of Zhenbei’s Mansion, who was the mother of the Prince of Zhenbei and the grandmother of Qin Yuanzheng.
It was originally seen as a match of equal social status, a perfect union celebrated by all, but what the Grand Tutor’s Mansion never knew was that Qin Yuanzheng had grown up with a cousin, Zhang clan’s lady Mingshu.
Therefore, when Liang Chenyu turned sixteen and was carried over to the Prince of Zhenbei’s Mansion in a grand bridal palanquin and completed the wedding ceremony, what awaited her was the humiliation of her groom leaving her to guard an empty room alone on their wedding night.
Even more intolerable was that, on the second day after the wedding, as Liang Chenyu was performing the tea ceremony for the elders according to tradition, she saw her husband, who should have been with her, enter tenderly with a stunningly beautiful woman.
That woman, dressed similarly in red, stood by Qin Yuanzheng’s side and looked more like the new bride of the Prince of Zhenbei’s Mansion than Liang Chenyu herself.
Liang Chenyu fainted on the spot from anger.
When she came to, she saw the affectionate face of the Old Princess Consort of Prince of Zhenbei’s Mansion: “Yuer, you are the Crown Princess I begged for with my old face. I know, Yuanzheng wronged you, but now that you are husband and wife, what can’t be overcome between a couple? As for that Zhang clan’s lady, rest assured, I have already decided to send her away, and I have also scolded Yuanzheng. You take care of yourself, for I am waiting for you to give me a great-grandchild.”
What could Liang Chenyu say? She endured it and told herself to take it slow, certain that she would eventually win back her husband’s heart.
She was a perfect wife, a perfect mistress of the house, managing the affairs of the Prince of Zhenbei’s Mansion impeccably.
Although her husband Qin Yuanzheng was distant, he never took a concubine to share his bed, nor did he spend nights in the pleasure quarters. Liang Chenyu thought to herself that as long as she fulfilled her duty as a wife, her husband would surely come to care for her in his heart one day.
However, what she did not expect was the news that Zhang clan’s lady Mingshu was pregnant.
That day, as she returned from praying for blessings at Guanshan Temple, her carriage was stopped on the way by someone.
The dazzling face of Zhang clan’s lady appeared in front of her: “My respects to you, sister.”
Liang Chenyu scoffed on the spot: “If we speak of status, I am the wife of the Crown Prince of Zhenbei, a Second Rank lady by imperial decree. You are merely a common girl, unworthy of the title of sister to me. If we speak of kin, you are the cousin to the Princely Heir and should address me as your sister-in-law. I wonder, Miss Zhang, has anyone ever taught you manners in your family?”
The chastened Zhang Mingshu stood there trembling, with tears streaming down her lotus-petal face, yet she evoked no pity.
“Why must you humiliate me so, sister? I am now two months pregnant and will surely enter the Prince’s Mansion after some time. It seems you cannot tolerate my presence, can you?”
Liang Chenyu was shocked yet said little, only returning to the Prince’s Mansion.
She immediately went to the Princess Consort’s room to inquire about Zhang Mingshu’s situation clearly.
It turned out that when the Old Princess Consort Cheng Nuo had sent away Zhang Mingshu, it was just to relocate her to a villa.
It turned out that her husband’s claims of late returns due to busy official duties, his resistance to the company of other women, were all because his attention was entirely fixed on Zhang Mingshu.
It turned out that the Prince of Zhenbei’s Mansion had long decided they would bring Zhang Mingshu into the family before her child could make a sound.
It turned out that all her efforts, the anticipation of winning her husband’s heart, were nothing but a joke.
Coming from the Grand Tutor’s Mansion, the leading bastion of uprightness in the court, Liang Chenyu had been well-educated since childhood in poetry, propriety, integrity, and shame; how could she tolerate such humiliation?
That very night, she used the three-foot-long White Silk to end her life.