After I Took the Place of a Woman Who Transmigrated into a Book and Married a Minister Doomed to Die

Substitute bride + marriage first, love later + native-born leads + supporting female character transmigrates into a book

Mingzhu is the daughter of a constable. In the eyes of her elders, she is the very picture of obedience and good behavior. Little do they know she has martial arts skills and can knock down a wild boar with her bare fists.

One day, Ming Xun is ambushed and poisoned, leaving him on the brink of death.

To save her father, Mingzhu agrees to a substitute-bride arrangement with a wealthy young lady from the capital, and drinks the poisoned tea the woman has secretly prepared.

The young lady wants Mingzhu to kill someone for her.

Mingzhu also thinks her new husband is no good, and she needs the antidote, so she sharpens her knife, ready to bring it down. Then she unexpectedly spots the culprit who poisoned her father.

The person who should be behind bars has suddenly appeared outside. Mingzhu finds this suspicious, so she puts away her knife and investigates the case first. She can always kill him after she solves it.

At seventeen, Gu Huaixu came first in the palace examination. At twenty, he was appointed vice minister of the Court of Judicial Review, with a brilliant future ahead of him. But on his wedding night, someone switched the bride beneath his wedding veil.

He has heard plenty about the second daughter of the Su family, the subject of so much gossip in the capital lately.

Gu Huaixu bears a blood feud and has no interest in love. It makes no difference to him whom he marries.

After the wedding, he spends most of his time at the government offices, leaving his new wife neglected.

The quiet days do not last long. A servant from the residence comes to report, “My lord, the third madam has set fire to the ancestral hall. The old madam wants you to come back.”

Gu Huaixu discovers that his new wife is not only bold, but also has a dangerously lascivious streak. She often stares at his neck and simply cannot look away.