You Want Me as Your Second Wife? I'll Seduce Your Younger Uncle Instead

Lan Xuanwan is breathtakingly beautiful and perceptive about the ways of the world. She had hoped to marry Wen Qian and live out her days in peace. But her elder sister died under mysterious circumstances at the Prince of Yu's residence just over a year after marrying the heir, while five months pregnant. The heir is a notorious womanizer and shows no grief over his wife's death. Instead, he conspires with Lan Xuanwan's father to bring her into the household as his replacement wife. Lan Xuanwan had been willing to go along with it in order to avenge her sister. But the person who comes to the Lan residence to propose marriage is none other than the heir's younger uncle, Xiao Chengyuan, the Regent whose power dominates the court. She makes her decision at once, uses the opportunity to set her plan in motion, and on the very day of their betrothal negotiations, lures the famously dispassionate Regent into her red bridal curtains~