After I Died, My Substitute Got Pregnant

On their third wedding anniversary, Su Wan receives no candlelit dinner, but an anonymous “gift”: high-definition photos of her husband, Gu Huai, cheating with a young mistress. With her heart dead, she calmly makes her plans, determined to make the scumbag leave with nothing. But the private investigator’s findings tear open an even more chilling truth: every mistress looks strikingly like Lin Wei, Gu Huai’s first love, who supposedly fell to her death from a cliff in an “accident” ten years ago.

When a blurry photo from the old crime scene is enlarged, a faint glint on the rocks turns out to be the custom platinum cuff link Gu Huai never goes without! Was his decade of devoted mourning nothing but a carefully crafted, colossal lie? Substitutes, illegitimate children, slow-acting poison… From the very beginning, Su Wan’s marriage was a cold altar built to fill the place of the dead.

A diagnosis of late-stage stomach cancer and bloody vomit set the countdown to revenge in motion. With her frail body as her weapon, she calmly weaves a web of destruction amid the ruins of her sham marriage into a wealthy family. Asset transfers, media manipulation, digging into the murder case… Every step takes her to the edge of a cliff. When the bloodstained cuff link, hidden for years, finally resurfaces, and the livestream cameras turn toward the irrefutable evidence at Qingya, the empire and mask Gu Huai so carefully built come crashing down.

This is no simple tale of marital revenge. It is a woman at the edge of the abyss tearing free of the shackles of being a substitute, staking her life to deliver a final reckoning to the one pulling the strings. Roses bathed in blood, rising from the brink of death. Behind the truth lies a despair colder than betrayal, or a glimmer of rebirth?