A Substitute Marriage: The Useless Legitimate Daughter Takes the Capital by Storm

Everyone laughs at Su Qingyuan, the prime minister’s legitimate daughter, calling her timid, useless, and a good-for-nothing.

Her birth mother died young, her stepmother mistreats her, and her father is cold-blooded. Even the man she has loved for years, her fiancé, carries on in secret with her white-lotus half-sister and casts her aside like trash.

With the wedding approaching, her half-sister is afraid to marry the brutal, maimed regent. Using a keepsake left by Su Qingyuan’s mother to threaten her, she forces Su Qingyuan to take her place and enter the regent’s dreaded prison of a household.

With no one to pity her and no one to stand up for her, Su Qingyuan gives in through tears and enters the abyss in bridal red, marrying in her sister’s place.

Rumor has it that Regent Xiao Jue holds power over the court, is bloodthirsty and sinister, and has little time left to live because of a strange poison. Sick of the Su family’s schemes, he scorns this substitute marriage.

Left alone in the cold courtyard on her wedding night and subjected to every kind of humiliation, she is, in his eyes, a calculating pawn who married into power as a substitute.

Who could have guessed that this good-for-nothing legitimate daughter was hiding her talents?

Everyone knows her as timid and useless, but no one knows that her medical skills are miraculous, her mastery of poison unmatched, her mind full of brilliant strategies, and her hands capable of turning the tide.

Disrespectful servants? She punishes them on the spot and secures her place in the prince’s household!

Her half-sister provokes her and her scumbag ex mocks her? She tears off their masks in public and exposes the vile faces of every petty nobody in the capital!

Plots in the prince’s household and schemes at court? She plans her every move and outmaneuvers them all!

He has suffered from a rare poison for a hundred years, and every physician is helpless. Only she can save him from death.

The cold, sinister regent goes from consumed by suspicion and tormenting her at every turn to falling deeply in love with her.

Misunderstandings abound, villains frame them, and an intense, tragic romance drives a wedge between their hearts.

With her heart completely dead, she cuts off her feelings and leaves. When the winds of change rise, she dazzles the capital!

By the time she holds power over the court and her name is renowned across the realm, she has become an unparalleled powerhouse no one dares provoke.

The man who once cast her aside and humiliated her sheds his blood-soaked ways