The Princess Hired Me as Her Substitute Bride, and the Tyrant Blushed on Our Wedding Night

On their wedding night, the violent Crown Prince flicked up her veil with his sword and pointed the blade at her throat. “Putting on airs? I’ll kill you.”

Shen Ying, a streetwise con artist forced into a stand-in marriage, sucked in a breath and instantly activated her Microexpression Mind-Reading skill. She dropped to her knees and clung to his leg. “Your Highness! I admire you! I’ll be your dog! Woof!”

The hidden guards gaped. The ruthless tyrant had actually… turned red at the ears for once?

To earn the hundred thousand taels of gold promised for the stand-in marriage, Shen Ying went all in on making money through her theatrics in the Eastern Palace:

A sanctimonious county lady gave her a hard time? She conned fifty taels of silver out of her on the spot.

The vicious Consort Shu tried to frame her? Shen Ying turned around and raided Consort Shu’s private treasury, even taking ancient paintings from a previous dynasty.

And the most outrageous part? Every time she got scolded or frightened, she whipped out a little notebook and jotted down “emotional distress compensation” and “work injury claims against the tyrant.”

Just as Shen Ying was raking in the money and preparing to flee, enemy spies plunged the capital into crisis, and her fake-princess identity was exposed!

The enemy’s real princess laughed arrogantly. “Xiao Jinhe, she isn’t a princess at all. She’s just a greedy fraud, a scapegoat meant to take the fall for someone else!”

Shen Ying thought the tyrant would kill her with one stroke of his sword.

But Xiao Jinhe, who should have been gravely wounded and unconscious, rode alone through the night and pinned the real princess’s lackey to the mud with a spear!

Standing drenched in blood, the man glared like a demon from hell. “My dictionary has no such thing as a real or fake princess. Lay a hand on her, and I’ll make the entire Chu Kingdom pay!”