After Becoming a Substitute Bride, the Fake Disabled Tycoon Can’t Hide Her Secret

Su Weiwan, a concubine-born daughter of the Marquis of Yongning's household, has only begun to master medicine. Gentle on the outside but tough within, she is forced to marry in her elder sister's place and wed Lu Zheng, the Jiu Yuan commander said to be paralyzed and confined to his bed. The general's manor is full of daggered stares, muddled accounts, and servants who make things difficult for her. She keeps her head down and endures it all. Then she discovers poison mixed into the medicine, while her husband, supposedly wheelchair-bound, climbs over the wall in the dead of night. Is his paralysis a sham? Northern Di spies lurk in the shadows, military rations are being sold off, and there is more to her birth mother's death than meets the eye. She swaps the medicine and hides the evidence, investigates the accounts and identifies the poison, advancing one careful step at a time. He has pretended to be disabled for three years and treats her like an enemy, yet sees how she protects the manor like a fortress. From a marriage of convenience to allies who would face death together, she is the light he can no longer hide. The substitute marriage was a trap, and she is the one who will break it.