After Becoming a Substitute Bride, the Ice-Cold Big Shot Dotes on Me Like No Other

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To curry favor with a powerful family, the Gu family forces Gu Zhiyuan, their real daughter who has been worked like a beast at home, to take her sister's place in a marriage meant to bring good fortune to the groom.

Gu Zhiyuan has long seen through the Gu family's cold-heartedness. She agrees to the substitute marriage, treating it as her only chance to escape the cage she was born into.

Everyone laughs at her for walking right into a trap, saying she'll be a widow in all but name.

No one knows that Huo Yanci was poisoned in a plot by his relatives six months ago. He deliberately feigned being unconscious and paralyzed while secretly planning his revenge.

Her unique, faint fragrance is the only antidote that can suppress the poison and cure his severe insomnia.

On their wedding night, he quietly opens his eyes and recognizes Gu Zhiyuan at once: she is the little girl who saved him on a stormy night ten years ago! A decade of longing, and now at last they are reunited.

Just a few days later, Huo Yanci, bedridden for half a year, suddenly wakes up and declares in front of everyone, “In the Huo family, there are only widows, no divorces! Gu Zhiyuan is my one and only Mrs. Huo. There is no substitute, and this is no marriage of convenience.”

From then on, the ruthless business tycoon Huo launches into full-on protect-my-wife mode.

In public, he roots out traitors in the Huo family, shuts down the parasitic Gu family, and gives her white-lotus half-sister a harsh reckoning. At home, he indulges and favors Gu Zhiyuan without limit, supporting her ambitions and helping her pursue her dreams.

Gu Zhiyuan doesn't rely on her powerful husband's family. Clearheaded and independent, she takes on her birth family while building her own career, fighting shoulder to shoulder with Huo Yanci. They heal each other and meet as equals.