(Special abilities + substitute bride + love after marriage + ten-year age gap)
Xia Youyou was born into a family of people with special abilities, but because she had none of her own, she was ostracized and bullied. When she was eight, she fell gravely ill and wasn't taken to a doctor in time, leaving her with a stutter.
Her stepsister, Xia Yiyi, was exceptionally gifted and was chosen to marry Zongzheng Lan, the eldest son of another family of ability users.
Zongzheng Lan was the most powerful ability user in their world, with a perfectly sculpted face, long legs, and an elegant, refined air. But after eight fiancées died because of him, no woman dared marry him.
Afraid of meeting the same fate, his stepsister eloped with her first love in the middle of the night.
Hoping to curry favor with the Zongzheng family, the Xia family made Xia Youyou take her stepsister's place and marry Zongzheng Lan.
When Zongzheng Lan learned that the Xia family had palmed off a stuttering girl on him as a substitute bride, he flew into a rage and threatened to kill Xia Youyou.
Drugged with an aphrodisiac, Xia Youyou didn't know death was just around the corner. Like a little fox, she clung to Zongzheng Lan, stammering, "I want... I want..."
As Zongzheng Lan looked into the stutterer's adorably foolish, clear, and unfocused eyes, his rage vanished as suddenly as if the gods had intervened. He put away his magic power, gripped her chin, and asked, "What do you want?"
Xia Youyou was too embarrassed to say it, but the torment was unbearable. She wrapped her arms around the man's neck and clumsily pressed her lips to his...
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Her stepmother and stepsister thought Xia Youyou would be killed after marrying Zongzheng Lan as a substitute. But not only did she survive, Zongzheng Lan spoiled her to pieces.
Zongzheng Lan before meeting Xia Youyou: How dare she take someone else's place as a bride? I'll kill that stutterer.
Zongzheng Lan after their wedding night: He brings his adorable wife to a family banquet. When someone mocks Xia Youyou as a stuttering good-for-nothing, Zongzheng Lan threatens them on the spot: "Anyone who calls my wife a stuttering good-for-nothing, I'll cripple them and make them mute."
