The first thing Lu Xiangzhi did after becoming the top scorer in the imperial examination was divorce his wife.
“The Shen family woman is virtuous enough, but far too dull.”
He married a woman from a brothel, while I remarried a spoiled heir.
Lu Xiangzhi believed I had only married that ignorant, good-for-nothing dandy out of spite.
He thought a Shen family woman valued wifely virtue above all else, while that dandy was too unruly to be managed.
It would not be long, he assumed, before the man grew tired of a dull woman like me.
He waited half a year, yet never heard that I had been cast aside.
When Lu Xiangzhi finally could not resist coming to see me, I was holding a discipline ruler and tapping my dandy husband’s head with it, rather helplessly saying, “The teacher explained it three times. You still don’t understand?”
My dandy husband wrapped an arm around my waist and grinned like a shameless rogue.
“I don’t. I want a kiss.”
