After the Substitute Wedding, His Secret Love Could Never Be Spoken

Wen Zhinuan ran away before her wedding, forcing Wen Yuhe to take her place. Bound by a one-year agreement, she marries into the Gu family and becomes Mrs. Gu, a temporary replacement in everyone’s eyes.

All she wants is to protect her grandmother and hold on to her principles, then leave with dignity when the agreement expires. But as days of standing side by side, protecting each other, and uncontrollable closeness go by, she can no longer tell whether this marriage is merely a business arrangement or if someone has truly fallen in love.

Just as she is about to believe it, the bride-to-be returns from abroad. Old rivalries among the wealthy stir once more, and the truth about the replacement marriage, the current bride and the intended one, dignity and true feelings all come crashing down at once.

One is Gu Chengyan, who never admits how he feels but keeps showing up at her side.

The other is Wen Zhinuan, the woman everyone assumes was “supposed to be in that position.”

Wen Yuhe finally realizes that the hardest part is not becoming a substitute bride. It is deciding whether, now that she has truly fallen in love, she can still find a way to leave this tangled situation with her heart and sense of self intact.