A Substitute Bride for Good Luck: The Madam Only Wants to Be a Widow

[Traditional historical romance + household intrigue + mutual salvation + secret identities revealed + devoted husband]

Ji Tang was abandoned for thirteen years. When she finally returns to the capital, she is forced to marry in place of someone else, to a sickly and disabled heir to a noble title.

Her dear younger half-sister, meanwhile, steals the top scholar she was betrothed to as a child.

Ji Tang fights back with all her might, setting fire to the ancestral hall.

Being forced into a substitute marriage is bad enough, but her half-sister and stepmother even parade around in front of her wearing her mother’s dowry. That is simply too much to bear!

So Ji Tang takes back the dowry, beats her half-sister, takes on her stepmother, and gives her scoundrel of a father a piece of her mind, turning the Ji household upside down.

At last, she claps her hands in satisfaction, dumps her heartless fiancé, and marries into the Marquis’s household with a generous dowry.

After seeing with her own eyes how the once-mighty heir coughs half the night away, and is too weak even to consummate their marriage, Ji Tang starts counting the days until she becomes a widow.

Rich and free, with no man to serve and no children to bear, her future could not look more delightful.

But as she waits, why does the supposedly dying heir seem to grow more vigorous by the day?

“Ah Tang, I’ve made you suffer since we married. Tonight, I’ll make it up to you,” Xie Zhixing says, his eyes burning with desire.

“What kind of making it up has to happen at night?” Ji Tang asks, perplexed.

Xie Zhixing leans close and whispers in her ear, “The greatest pleasure this world has to offer.”