After Calling Off the Engagement, I Had a Whirlwind Wedding with My Ex-Fiancé's Uncle

[Medical genius, marriage before love, wealthy family feuds, play the pig to eat the tiger, falling in love after all, strong female lead, happy ending]

At her engagement banquet, Su Qingran, the uncherished biological daughter of the Su family, tore up her engagement contract with the Lin heir in front of the city’s elite. To put an end to her family’s efforts to force her into a marriage, she grabbed the “sickly man” in a wheelchair from the corner and declared, “He’s the one I love. If I’m marrying anyone, it’s him!”

The crowd erupted. He was Gu Yanci, an obscure collateral relative of the Gu financial dynasty. Rumor had it that he was frail and sickly and wouldn’t live past thirty. Everyone in their circle mocked him as a “good-for-nothing.”

Everyone waited to laugh at Su Qingran. She had turned down her stellar fiancé to pick up a “short-lived invalid.” What a fool!

But no one knew that the next day, the “sickly man” was waiting outside her door. He handed her a signed agreement, his voice clear and cool, yet carrying an undeniable authority. “Sign it and register our marriage. I’ll help you escape the Su family, and you’ll help me fend off trouble.”

For the sake of her freedom, Su Qingran gritted her teeth and signed. But after they married, their life together gradually went off script...

By day, he was a frail husband who needed her to feed him medicine and help him walk.

By night, he held her captive in his arms, his gaze as deep as the night and his grip so strong that she begged him to stop.

She slowly began to realize that there was something suspicious about his “illness.”

Until one day, her former fiancé showed up with his new love to gloat. The moment he saw the man beside her, his face turned deathly pale, and he respectfully called him “Uncle...”