My husband, who abandoned his father and kept his son, actually wants me to be his concubine.

Chapter 46 Requesting a Divorce
After instructing the servant, Madam Yuan turned to Princess Yongjia and said, "My child, don't cry. Your crying breaks my heart. That fool Yuan Jie, I will definitely teach him a lesson and not let him off. Your health is the most important thing."

Princess Yongjia was comforted by Madam Yuan, but her tears flowed even more uncontrollably. "Mother-in-law, I have been married into your Yuan family for six years, and I have always felt that I have met a good mother-in-law and a good father-in-law. Even though I have not been able to conceive for six years, you have never pressured me to marry the prince consort. For the past three years, I have felt guilty. Even though the medicine was hard to swallow, I always took it. But who knew that Yuan Jie had been keeping a mistress all along? He has been deceiving me for so many years!"

Princess Yongjia wept and said, "Everything I've done has become a complete joke!"

Lu Jinshi said, "Does the Prince Consort, who keeps a mistress outside, have any regard for the Princess or His Majesty?"

Madam Yuan sighed softly, no longer daring to utter another word.

"Jia'er".

Princess Yongjia nodded at the voice coming from the doorway. Through her teary eyes, she looked at her husband standing there.

Yuan Jie looked at Princess Yongjia with tearful eyes and said with heartache, "Jia'er."

Princess Yongjia slowly rose from her chair, glaring at Yuan Jie and saying, "Don't call me Jia'er! You're not worthy to call me Jia'er!"

"Princess."

Yuan Jie's face was full of remorse. He stepped forward, took Princess Yongjia's hand, and took a handkerchief from her to wipe away her tears. "Princess, I dared not hide the fact that I was keeping a mistress from you. I really had no choice. As the eldest son and grandson of the Yuan family, I cannot remain childless forever. I dare not mention taking a concubine to continue my bloodline, for fear that it would affect our marital relationship..."

"I only regard that mistress as a means of procreation. Once she can give birth to my child, I will remove her as the mother and keep the child. At that time, her child will also be your child..."

Director Yongjia had Yuan Jie wipe away her tears as she sobbed softly.

Lu Jinshi found it laughable and said, "Your bastard child dares to claim royal blood? Afraid of affecting the relationship between husband and wife, you dare not mention taking a concubine, but you dare to keep a mistress behind the princess's back. Which affects the relationship between husband and wife, mentioning taking a concubine or keeping a mistress?"

Yuan Jie frowned and looked at Lu Jinshi, "What does this have to do with you?"

Lu Jinshi said, "I have already set a wedding date with the Seventh Prince, so his sister's affairs are naturally related to me. I will not allow you to bully Her Highness with sweet words."

After hearing Lu Jinshi's words, Princess Yongjia's thoughts gradually became clear. She looked at Yuan Jie and said, "If you despise me for not being able to have children and really want a child, even if I am heartbroken, I will consider taking a concubine for you. But you keep saying that you love me and that you don't care about whether we have children or not. I thought you really didn't care about children, but you have already betrayed me!"

Yuan Jie said, "Jia'er, I truly love you. If it weren't for fate playing tricks on us, we would never have had a child after six years of marriage. I would never have kept a mistress outside the marriage."

“It’s three years…” Lu Jinshi exposed Yuan Jie at the right moment, “It’s not six years. Although it was a bit far yesterday, I could see that the daughter you took off the carriage looked somewhat like you. That girl should be about two years old, right? After all, she can walk quite steadily.”

Including the ten months of pregnancy, you betrayed Her Highness the Princess three years ago.

In ordinary couples, it's not uncommon for them to go three years without conceiving, so you couldn't resist having a mistress three years ago.

Yuan Jie frowned and looked at Lu Jinshi, saying, "What have I done to offend you? Why are you targeting me like this?"

Lu Jinshi said slowly, "As the prince consort, you still dare to keep a mistress. This shows that you do not respect the dignity of the royal family. For both public and private reasons, I cannot allow you to continue to deceive Her Highness with sweet words."

Princess Yongjia shook her head with a cold laugh. "Three years ago... Yuan Jie, we loved each other for many years, but it couldn't compare to my three years of childlessness?" Yuan Jie said, "Princess... I know I was wrong. You can hit me, scold me, punish me as you please, but I still love you in my heart. I had no choice but to keep a mistress; I was forced by circumstances..."

As Yuan Jie spoke, he knelt down on the ground, reached out and grasped Princess Yongjia's hand, saying, "Jia'er, hit me."

Princess Yongjia withdrew her hand, turned her head and said with tears in her eyes, "It's ridiculous. A few days ago when you celebrated my birthday, you said it was good that we had no children, so that you could love me wholeheartedly. I thought you were just trying to comfort me, but I didn't expect that I would have to worry about having children on my birthday."

"But it turns out, it's all so ridiculous! You already had a daughter, you already had your offspring..."

Princess Yongjia covered her chest with her hand and said, "Fine, I'll go to the palace now and ask my father for a divorce. I don't want your beloved son to be born with the stigma of being an illegitimate child."

"Princess, no!"

Yuan Jie knelt before Princess Yongjia, tears streaming down his face, and said, "Princess, I was wrong, I know I was wrong. Please forgive me this time. I will go back and have my stepmother have an abortion. As for Xiao Rou'er, she has already been born. I will only give her a sum of money and will never care about them again. I will cut all ties with them. Jia'er, please give me another chance. I really can't live without you."

Princess Yongjia looked at Yuan Jie kneeling on the ground and cried bitterly.

Lu Jinshi said slowly, "That night, Mother's child must have been six months along, right? How is it any different for you to make her abort the child from taking her life? When you remember in the future that you once had the chance to be a father, will you blame Her Highness the Princess for making you lose a son who was about to be born?"

Yuan Jie frowned and looked at Lu Jinshi, his eyes filled with hatred for Lu Jinshi.

Lu Jinshi then said to Princess Yongjia, "Sister, His Majesty and Consort Xian should know about this matter. If Wan Niang is aborted after being six months pregnant, it could result in the death of both mother and child. You might even face charges of murder."

Princess Yongjia's handkerchief was in Yuan Jie's hands, and she could only wipe away her tears with the back of her hand, saying, "I will go to the palace to see my mother now."

Princess Yongjia instructed the maid beside her to prepare the sedan chair, and she looked at Lu Jinshi and said, "Jinshi, would you like to come with me?"

Lu Jinshi said, "Okay."

Lu Jinshi followed Princess Yongjia into her spacious sedan chair.

A sedan chair is much more stable than a horse-drawn carriage.

Seeing Princess Yongjia wiping away her tears with a new handkerchief, Lu Jinshi comforted her, saying, "Sister, there's no need to be so heartbroken over a man like this."

Princess Yongjia sobbed, “I know he doesn’t deserve my tears, but I just can’t believe that ten years of love has come to this… We used to love each other so much, it was so beautiful… He betrayed me three years ago.”

Lu Jinshi sighed softly and said, "This world is too good to men. They can use having children as an excuse to take concubines and justify their infidelity."

Even if a woman is a princess or noblewoman, if she cannot bear a son, she must compromise and tolerate her husband taking concubines for the sake of the family line. Otherwise, it would harm the continuation of the husband's family line. Therefore, men can openly use the excuse of having offspring to keep mistresses, take concubines, and buy concubines..."

Lu Jinshi didn't know how long Rong Yi's vow never to take a concubine would be effective. Once he became the crown prince, the court would probably be keeping a close eye on the Eastern Palace's harem...

(End of this chapter)