The Substitute Bridegroom: The Wealthy Matriarch’s Reversal

[Transmigrating into a book + System + funny heroine + taming her husband + marriage first, love later + unhinged comedy] Shen Zhiyi wakes up to find she has become... the hapless substitute bride in a pampered heiress novel.

Her green-tea half-sister pretends to be ill. “Sister, that Young Marquis Xie is a violent tyrant. I simply can’t marry him...”

Shen Zhiyi looks at the Marquis’s residence, piled high with gold and silver, and remembers the story’s detail that her “husband dies young.” With tears in her eyes and a grin on her face, she climbs into the bridal sedan. “Let go of that playboy and let me handle him! My turn to enjoy this incredible fortune has finally come!”

The whole capital bets she’ll be dead in three days. But then...

On her wedding night, armed with a debt note, she tames the capital’s number-one menace into an obedient husky.

“Husband, memorize a passage from the Analects and I’ll give you five taels. If you dare visit a brothel, I’ll break your legs!”

Xie Wang sobs, “My lady, how am I supposed to live like this?”

Later, when the Prince Regent hosts a trap of a banquet, she packs up the leftovers to sell for a profit. Before the Censorate, Xie Wang carries brambles on his back to beg forgiveness, just to earn five taels of pocket money.

Everyone’s jaws hit the floor. “What happened to the pushover? This is clearly a story about a rich shrew taming a beast!”

Xie Wang clings to Shen Zhiyi’s leg. “Woof! My lady’s braised pork is delicious!”

[Tags]

Historical romance, transmigrating into a book, bickering couple, comedy, feel-good face-slapping, palace intrigue and household drama. A world where only the male lead gets hurt has been achieved.