A Substitute Bride to a Treacherous Minister: The Physician Consort Moves Her Baby Bump and Empties the Capital!

[Marriage swap to a powerful official + confiscation and exile + pocket dimension with spirit spring + farming + strong female lead + play the pig to eat the tiger + scheming male lead + sharp-tongued couple + betrayal by close family + emptying the national treasury + inner-household intrigue + power struggles and satisfying payback]

After Chu Wanwan returned to the capital to reunite with her family, the Chu family thought she seemed too rustic, so they schemed to marry her off to Lu Jiuyuan, the feared Grand Secretary.

Meanwhile, Chu Mingyan married into the imperial family and became the Crown Princess.

Everyone was waiting to laugh at Chu Wanwan.

But on her wedding day, Chu Wanwan suddenly discovered that she was pregnant inside the bridal sedan. The child belonged to the "down-on-his-luck merchant" she had rescued while fleeing. That merchant was none other than Lu Jiuyuan in disguise.

Their eyes met. Lu Jiuyuan asked coldly, "Madam, how do you plan to explain this?"

Chu Wanwan stroked her belly. "If you don't want to be a father, I can remarry right now."

Lu Jiuyuan was silent for a moment. "The child doesn't have to be mine, but you have to be mine."

Barely half a month after the wedding, Lu Jiuyuan was convicted of embezzlement, treason, and forming a faction for personal gain. His property was confiscated, and he was exiled. The Chu family immediately disowned Chu Wanwan and even sent people to seize the keepsakes her mother had left behind.

Chu Wanwan opened her pocket dimension and discovered she had a special ability: whenever she wrote "Repay your debt" in a ledger, the dimension could locate the assets in the debtor's name.

And so the Chu family's shops, the Crown Prince's private treasury, the Empress's dowry, and the gold hidden underground by the Minister of Revenue were all wiped clean with a single stroke.

She and Lu Jiuyuan escorted a group of wailing, despicable relatives to the place of exile. While everyone else chewed tree bark, she ate roast duck in her pocket dimension; while they slept on broken straw mats, she soaked in a hot spring inside her pocket dimension…