The Marquis’s Beloved Is a Surgeon

[Transmigration + Pocket Dimension + Marriage Before Love + The Husband's Long Road to Winning Her Back]

Shen Qinghuan, a surgeon, opens her eyes to find she's become Shen Mingzhu, the naive and sweet Marquess's wife in the Yongning Marquis's household of the Great Jing Dynasty.

The original Shen Mingzhu was obsessive, foolish, and universally disliked. Her husband, Xiao Heng, the marquess, had been married to her for only three days when an imperial order sent him to war. Before leaving, he tossed out just one line: “Stay put.”

Shen Qinghuan looks at the dark, plump face in the mirror and calmly rolls up her sleeves. Life goes on.

The inner household is a mess? She sorts out the accounts in three days and purges the troublesome servants in five. The storeroom is empty? She opens her pocket dimension, stocked with thousand-year-old wild ginseng and out-of-season fruits and vegetables. Under the alias “Seventh Master,” she opens shops and goes into business. Within six months, even the imperial merchants are asking who this master is.

Her only problem is that Xiao Heng has returned from the border.

The marquess, famed for his decisive ruthlessness and few words, expects to deal with a troublesome little handful, but instead finds her tending peonies in the flower garden, breathtakingly beautiful. She looks up at him, neither servile nor overbearing. “My lord, when are we getting a divorce?”

Xiao Heng sets down his military report. “Keep dreaming.”

Later, Shen Qinghuan's identity as the daughter of a convicted official is exposed. To keep the marquis's household from being implicated, she leaves a divorce letter and disappears in the middle of the night.

Xiao Heng stands in their empty bedroom, clutching the letter until his knuckles turn white.

He petitions to reopen the old case against the Shen family, debates the court officials in the imperial court, and stakes his military accomplishments and title on clearing their name, overturning a wrongful conviction that has stood for twenty years. All of the capital says the Yongning Marquis has gone mad: he's willing to risk his life for a woman.

Xiao Heng says, “She once saved my life, and I owe her a lifetime of love.”