[Substitute Bride + Physician Princess + Marriage Before Love + Fake and Real Heiress]
Prince Zhan accidentally falls into the water, triggering a congenital heart condition and leaving his life in peril. The imperial physicians declare that he won’t survive six months.
Qin Baifu, the fake heiress of the Anyuan Marquis’s household, is exposed and tossed onto an estate to fend for herself.
But on the eve of her coming-of-age ceremony, the marquis’s household makes a grand show of bringing her back. By imperial decree, she is to marry Prince Zhan as the legitimate daughter, bringing him good fortune and saving his life.
On their wedding night, Xie Yuan lifts the bright red cover embroidered with mandarin ducks at play. His eyes are sinister, but a smile curls his lips as he tilts the bride’s chin up. “The Anyuan Marquis’s household tried to pass off a servant’s daughter as my bride. Tell me, don’t they deserve to die?”
Seeing that Prince Zhan, who was supposed to be gravely ill and on the verge of death, looks perfectly well and moves with ease, Qin Baifu lowers her long lashes to hide her surprise, then bows her head. “Your Highness is right.”
Xie Yuan raises an eyebrow. “Oh? Isn’t the Anyuan Marquis’s household your family?”
Qin Baifu lowers her head even further, her voice soft. “A woman follows her husband, whether he’s a chicken or a dog.”
Xie Yuan laughs in anger. “Are you calling me a dog?”
The night before the wedding, the emperor pays a secret visit to Prince Zhan’s residence.
“That old scoundrel Qin Jianshan actually passed off a servant’s daughter as a substitute bride!”
Xie Yuan smiles faintly, though the smile never reaches his eyes. “Don’t worry, Father. I can always divorce her later.”
“You’ve been wronged, Yuan’er.”
Later, he clears away every obstacle and is named crown prince.
The emperor pays another secret visit.
“Qin is lowborn and unworthy of becoming empress. Divorce her! You can choose any noblewoman in the capital.”
But Xie Yuan regrets it.
“There are countless noblewomen in the capital, but none can compare to the way Fu’er smiles.”
Not bad, but it's a pity that the heroine is mediocre in appearance
Looking forward to the subsequent emotional development of the male and female protagonists