After I Became His Substitute Bride, the Capital's Heir Tore Up the Divorce Agreement

[Transmigrate into a book + wealthy capital circle + marriage before love + both each other's first and only + possessive pursuit + powerful man bows his head + satisfying read]

Ji Tangning opens her eyes and finds herself transmigrated into a cannon-fodder stand-in bride in a melodramatic novel set among Beijing's elite. The original Ji Tangning was a tool of the Ji family, sent to marry Huo Yancheng, the cold, sinister, arrogant heir of Beijing's most powerful family. Her fate is to leave with nothing and die of illness far from home.

Ji Tangning's plan: don't fight, don't compete, save up and run. Once the heroine, the male lead's one true love, shows up, she'll step aside.

So she treats being “Mrs. Huo” like a temporary job and is as polite to Huo Yancheng as she would be to a client. She doesn't cling to him or get jealous. She even thoughtfully helps fend off his admirers, plays matchmaker for him, and plans his single life, all because she just wants to take the money and leave.

But the plot goes completely off the rails.

Just as Ji Tangning has saved up enough money and presents him with divorce papers for the third time...

The man who's always been restrained and indifferent, and never bowed his head, tears the papers to shreds in front of the city's most powerful figures.

His eyes red, he pins her into a corner, his voice harsh with a hint of pleading. “Ji Tangning, who said you could leave?”

“When you married into this family, no one asked if you wanted to. Now that you want to leave, no one's asked if I want you to!”

The whole capital goes mad. For the first time, Huo Yancheng, the man at the pinnacle of power whom everyone looks up to, bends his pride for a woman.

[He thinks she's a bird in a cage, not knowing that she's the medicine that will save him.]

[She thinks she's acting, never realizing that he's the one who's fallen deepest into the role.]