My Husband’s Mistress and Mine Are Nothing Alike

My husband kept a mistress outside our household and positively doted on her.

My mother-in-law could not stand it.

So, through her own lover, she found me a lover to keep outside the household, too.

Then my husband took a second mistress.

By then I had learned a thing or two. Without waiting for my mother-in-law to say anything, I acquired a second lover of my own.

My husband spent every night with his two mistresses.

I climbed over the wall every night to visit my own lovers.

Everyone was happy.

Our family lived in perfect harmony.

Until my husband extracted a wealth of enemy secrets from his two mistresses—who were spies—and rendered a great service to the realm.

Every reward the emperor bestowed on him was delivered straight to my courtyard.

“My love, I have neglected you these past weeks. But with spies involved, every additional person who knew meant an additional risk. I had no choice but to keep it from all of you.

“And even without knowing the truth, you never cried or made a scene. You still trusted me. You still loved me.

“I will spend the rest of my life making it up to you and loving you twice as much.”

Me: …???

Oh, hell.

The sky was falling. So much for our harmonious family.