Comment by otterlyanylitical on I Will Divorce the Female Lead’s Siscon Brother - Chapter 15

Comment on ChapterI Will Divorce the Female Lead’s Siscon Brother - Chapter 15
otterlyanylitical
otterlyanylitical·2 years ago
Clever very clever, even in our world  with political marriage between noble families that didn't allow for divorce there were sometimes back doors and loop holes. A big one if the marriage wasn't consummated, you didn't get a divorce, the marriage got annulled. Wiped away as if it never was, because the underlying contract (unifying the families through children) wasn't honoured.
I thought she might go down the route of his inappropriate attention towards his sister as the way to blacken his reputation, but this is soo much better.
When it gets to court she'll have to explain it, and bring witnesses. Witnesses who can attest that it is the truth and he acted more like he was married to his adopted sister than his actual wife, which will start the rumours without her having to say it. Revenge on both of the scheming dullards.

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@otterlyanylitical a hundred thousand percent this--everything in you comment is spot on bunny sticker
@otterlyanylitical yep, it's one of the rarest cases of pre-divorce reforms marriage invalidating. It's even better because it was prescribed by ecclesiastic law, which is the most ancient basis and precedent for most of modern civil marriage law. The wedding is null and void, ab origine. Retroactively. Not even modern divorce can archieve that.