After Becoming Cannon Fodder, I Married the Short-Lived Regent

Su Lingwu transmigrates into an old-school political intrigue novel as a lovesick cannon-fodder legitimate daughter. She spends her life pining for the Crown Prince, only to have her man stolen by her half-sister and be abandoned by her family, before dying miserably in a deserted courtyard.

When she opens her eyes again, she's back before the marriage decree. Looking at the Crown Prince's refined, gentle face, she can only think: What a bad omen.

Isn't Xie Jingchen, the Regent Prince from the original novel, the perfect choice? He commands a huge army, is cold-blooded and cruel, and is destined to die young.

She'll marry him, and once he kicks the bucket, she'll be the richest widow in the capital!

And so the delicate legitimate daughter of the Duke's manor casts off her old lovesick act and starts shamelessly cooing and flirting with the Regent Prince, putting on a full-blown drama queen performance.

Everyone laughs at her for courting death by daring to provoke the living King of Hell.

Until, on their wedding night, the Regent Prince pins her in his arms and asks in a low, husky voice, “You want to be a widow?”

Su Lingwu: “...”

This isn't how the story was supposed to go!

Wasn't he supposed to be cold and short-lived? Why is this Regent Prince glued to her every day, doting on her and treating her like a precious treasure?

Later, the Regent Prince rises to power and crushes everyone who ever bullied her beneath his heel. He coaxes her softly: “Whatever Awu wants, I'll give her.”

Looking at the man who pampers his wife without limit, Su Lingwu quietly puts away her little plans to become a widow. Oh, well. A husband who spoils her this much? She might as well lie flat and enjoy it!