"You only married me for my money, you ugly thing!" he said to me. But husband, I'm troubled by being called an old maid, so I compromised and settled for you. If you hate being with an ugly person...

I am an ugly woman with pockmarks on my face from an illness in my childhood. Though I am the daughter of a merchant family, when I came of age, no suitable match was found for me. Thinking of my parents' sorrow, I compromised and married a man who was a womanizer and rake. I was constantly told, "You should be grateful that I married someone as unattractive as you," and he was always asking me for money while engaging in affairs. I grew tired of such a husband and decided to serve him with divorce papers. However, in our country, divorce initiated by a woman is...