The Family Went Bankrupt, So I Swapped Genders and Married My Sister’s Betrothed

Gender transformation + gender-bending marriage + descent into corruption.

The Fang family is on the brink of bankruptcy, and underground lenders are closing in. The runaway heiress, Fang Xue, leaves a disaster in her wake. Her timid father makes a ruthless decision: he forces his innocent son, Fang Yu, to undergo gender-reassignment surgery and marry into a wealthy family in his sister’s place, becoming the wife of Lin Li! Once a quiet, unassuming art student, Fang Yu is forced into a curvy, shapely figure and a firm, pert body. Dressed in a sexy wedding gown and teetering in high heels, he must pass himself off as the alluring eldest daughter of the Fang family, reduced to nothing more than a tool for saving the family.

What torments her most is the role of “wife.” She must pretend to be gentle and charming in front of a strange man, while enduring the shame and terror of living with a mismatched gender identity day and night. But once she sets foot on this path, there is no going back, and she has no right to resist. Stranger still, the groom, Lin Li, seems to have realized from the start that he has married a wife who is “different.” What kind of love and hatred will unfold between them? How will the struggle for power and profit between the Fang and Lin families play out? And what choice will Fang Yu ultimately make, trapped between male and female identities?

Even more devastating, the Fang family’s lack of a male heir becomes a real problem. A ruthless uncle joins forces with the returning elder sister to seize power, while Fang Yu, who has sacrificed the most by undergoing gender reassignment and marrying in his sister’s place, is completely pushed aside by his own family. How will she reclaim what should be hers?

Adapted from the short story “Family Bankruptcy, Forced Gender Change, Marry in Your Sister’s Place”