The Substitute Princess Consort Wields Mystical Arts, Shaking Up the Capital's Elite

To protect their legitimate daughter, the prime minister’s household sends their second daughter, a fearsome girl raised in the countryside, to marry the Prince of Zhenbei in her place. He is rumored to be brutal, to have killed every wife he’s ever had, and to be on his last breath.

All the capital’s nobles laugh at her. “This jinx won’t survive her wedding night.”

Everyone assumes she’s suffering day after day in the prince’s household, tormented by her sickly husband until she’s nothing but skin and bones.

But when the Princess of Zhenbei returns to her family, she’s holding a divination compass in one hand and a spirit-summoning banner in the other, and she’s breathtakingly beautiful.

On the day she returns, her scumbag father tries to force her to take the blame for her legitimate elder sister. She responds by summoning the spirit of the prime minister’s founding ancestor.

The ancestor manifests and slaps the scumbag father hard across the face in front of everyone. “You unworthy descendant! I’ll take you to hell myself!”

A self-righteous scholar calls her a demoness.

She doesn’t bat an eye. “Your dead wife is clinging to your back. She says you pushed her down a well years ago to curry favor with the powerful, and now she’s come to take you with her.”

The scholar wets himself on the spot, blood streaming from all seven openings of his head.

With her maxed-out supernatural skills, she attacks indiscriminately. Anyone who crosses her gets their ancestors summoned to pay them a midnight visit at their bedside!

The capital’s nobles can’t sleep at night, and one after another they fall to their knees at her feet, begging for mercy.

After recovering in his ice coffin, the Prince of Zhenbei excitedly returns home to stand up for his princess.

But when he pushes open the door, she’s gone, leaving behind only a letter...