The Substitute Bride: 99 Days of Captivity with the CEO
Synopsis:
When a black luxury car forced me to stop in the pouring rain, I thought I’d found my savior. Little did I know that Ling Yichen would pin me against the car door, white rose petals clinging to his suit cuff. “Be my bride for three months, and I’ll help your father pay off his gambling debts.”
On our wedding night, he locked me in a room covered with another woman’s photos. Gripping my chin, he forced red wine down my throat as it ran over my wedding dress. “You should thank those eyes of yours. Otherwise, who would marry a gambler’s daughter?”
At a banquet, someone tore my dress open in front of everyone. The butterfly-shaped birthmark on my inner thigh stood out under the camera flashes. Ling Yichen’s beloved fiancée held up a paternity test and sneered, “Mr. Ling would even sleep with his enemy’s daughter?”
On the 72nd day of my captivity on the island, I found a bloodstained ledger in the cellar. The faded handwriting made me tremble all over. It turned out my father had helped cause his father’s death! When I leaped into the sea with the evidence on a stormy night, he chased after me like a madman, gripping my waist amid the waves and roaring, “You think I love that face? Wrong. I was already doomed by you when you took a knife for me at seven.”
In court, I held up my pregnancy test, and Ling Yichen suddenly burst out laughing. The giant screen began showing our frenzied encounter before a gravestone, while the countdown to revenge hung above my father’s ICU bed...
