After Taking Charge as a Substitute Bride, the Cold-Blooded Powerbroker Loses Control

[Transmigration into a book + switched marriages + married first, love later + raising children + household rivalries + sweet romance, devoted to each other]

Shen Zhiwei transmigrates into a book.

She becomes the cannon-fodder matriarch who was swindled out of her dowry by a scoundrel, lets him indulge his mistress in bullying her, and ultimately dies a tragic death in a remote courtyard.

On their wedding day, the scoundrel deliberately leaves her waiting for two hours, then tries to use the woman he loves to step over her and claim her place.

Shen Zhiwei immediately throws off her bridal veil.

“I’m not going through with this marriage.”

She turns around, takes the two families’ marriage contracts, and marries Pei Yanchuan, the cold and distant heir of the Marquis’s residence, who is unconscious and rumored to have less than six months to live.

The whole capital laughs at her for becoming a young widow so soon.

But Shen Zhiwei thinks this life suits her perfectly.

Her husband is unconscious, so he can’t dote on concubines and mistreat his wife.

With her dowry in hand, she puts the marquis’s residence in order, audits the accounts, punishes unruly servants, and even raises three future villains who would otherwise wreak havoc across the land into decent people.

Only no one told her that the man in the sickbed had regained consciousness long ago.

Later, Pei Yanchuan braves a fire for her, takes charge of the household, investigates a spy, and even entrusts the entire marquis’s residence to her.

But Shen Zhiwei hands him a letter of divorce.

“Now that you’re awake, Heir, we should divorce as we agreed.”

The usually cool and composed man presses the divorce letter beneath his hand, his voice low.

“My lady, you’ve taken over my home, charmed away my children, and now you’ve even stolen my heart.”

“Where do you think you’re going?”