After a Substitute Marriage, I Became My Stepson's One True Love

[Madness] + [Forced Love] + [Both Leads Are Chaste] + [Both Leads Speak Their Minds] + [Substitute Bride] + [Happy Ending]

Lin Wanchu is the eldest legitimate daughter of the prime minister. Though born to a noble status, she has lived a life worse than a servant's since childhood. Her mother died young, and her father is cold-hearted. She grows up enduring beatings from her stepmother and stepsister. At seventeen, her father confines her to her home. A year later, she takes her sister's place in marriage and is sent to the Xie family, one of the most prominent families in the capital. The family includes General Xie Chuqing, nearly forty and frequently away from home; his younger brother, Xie Shuqing, a twenty-one-year-old young general; and Xie Chong, Duke of Anguo, who is twenty-six.

On the Lantern Festival three years ago, a young woman wearing a bright red fox-fur cloak passed by in the crowd. He caught a fleeting glimpse of her, and she remained in his heart from that moment on.

One day, the two meet for the first time on the city wall, and their hearts stir for the first time. Yet fate plays a cruel hand: at eighteen, Lin Wanchu is married off by imperial decree. From then on, their feelings never get the chance to begin, yet never truly end...