The Substitute Bride: The Exiled General’s Sweet Little Wife

Xue Lanyi, the sole heir to the secluded Xue family's medical legacy, transmigrates to another world after a drug she developed makes her appear dead. She wakes in the body of a pitiful bride who has been sent in place of another to the prime minister's household. As if being a stand-in bride weren't bad enough, she has been given a slow-acting poison since childhood and has little time left to live.

After inheriting all the original owner's memories, the first thing she does is detoxify herself, making sure she can survive in this strange world.

Early in her new life, she meets a group of kind neighbors. One family brings her food, another brings her drinks, warming her heart in this unfamiliar world.

At last, their warmth and sincerity inspire her to lead the whole village to prosperity and a better life.

She introduces scientific farming and develops high-yield crops so everyone can eat rice to their heart's content.

She finds cotton and opens a factory, helping the villagers grow rich while keeping people across the country warm in winter and cool in summer.

Her extraordinary medical skills cure epidemics and strange illnesses, earning everyone's trust. But those who deserve to die can't even get close to her. They arrive full of hope and leave disappointed, sometimes without their lives.

The emperor rewards her, and she rises steadily through the ranks, becoming a model for women everywhere.

A young general who became famous for never losing a battle is exiled a thousand miles away by imperial order for embezzlement and dereliction of duty. His family, resentful, cuts ties with him, leaving him all alone. But who could know that his apparent exile is actually part of a larger gambit? He trains soldiers deep in the mountains and secretly prepares for the day he can settle old scores.

The general, who has never been interested in women, is moved by the stand-in bride's plight. Her uniqueness draws his attention, and their everyday interactions make him care for her more and more. He wants to give her everything the world has to offer. But that little girl just wants to stay as far away from him as possible, always busy as a spinning top and impossible to catch.

Alas... the road to winning his wife back is long. Can his resolve carry him through?