The Substitute Bride of the Barren, Crippled Prince: The Scheming Beauty Got the Wrong Seed

[Historical romance + love after marriage + play the pig to eat the tiger + sweet substitute-bride romance + six-year age gap + mature man and woman + size difference and intense desire + rivals fighting for her in a chaotic love triangle + both pure]

Wen Suining was the least remarkable of the Wen family's concubine-born daughters. Clearheaded and rational, she saw men as tools.

Her childhood sweetheart, now her ex, wanted her as a kept woman. The Crown Prince wanted to treat her as a plaything.

After entering the household as a substitute bride, she turned around and latched onto the disabled Ninth Prince, while eyeing his “hulking bodyguard” and planning to borrow his seed to have a child.

She had accounted for everything, except that the bodyguard was none other than the prince himself!

The day her secret identity was exposed, Wen Suining packed her bags and prepared to fake her death and flee.

But the powerful man who held sway over the court had the whole city sealed off. Eyes bloodshot, he pinned her against a red-lacquered wooden chest:

“You got the seed and then ran? Wen Suining, what do you take me for?”

Wen Suining: Keep the child, get rid of the father.

Everyone knew Ninth Prince Xun Ce was a cripple, and Wen Suining believed it too.

To secure her place in the Ninth Prince's residence, she set herself three goals:

1. Keep the crippled prince on her side.

2. Win over the hulking bodyguard.

3. Borrow his seed and rise in status, becoming the laziest princess dowager around.

She had spent half her life acting, only to get tripped up by the crippled prince, Xun Ce.

She would cry to the prince, “My heart belongs only to you,” then turn to the bodyguard and say, “My husband is useless. You're the only one I care about, my lord.”

Until one day…

Wen Suining was pregnant.