[Beggar Clan's Ninth Master x Gloomy, Disabled Prince | Substitute Marriage with a Twist | Hilarious Strong Female Lead]
Xie Jinglan has been a beggar for sixteen years when the Marquis's residence suddenly retrieves her in an eight-carriage procession. Not to welcome her home, but to marry her off as a substitute bride.
Her groom is Prince Rui, whose legs are paralyzed, who has been coughing blood for three years, and whom the imperial physicians have declared "unlikely to live past twenty-five."
The entire capital is waiting to laugh at her.
She flashes her knife and smiles. "I'll marry him. But you're paying me."
Before the wedding night, she carries a knife and launches repeated nighttime raids on Prince Rui's residence.
On the wedding night, she still has her knife, ready to kill the prince, become a widow, and inherit the estate.
After the wedding night, the knife she carries becomes a weapon for protecting the prince.
The princess consort wants to kill people every day, and the prince spends every day trying to stop her.
Then one day, the man who supposedly "can't walk" stands behind her and calmly draws her knife away. "Be good, Princess Consort. Knives are no fun. Let's play with something else."
Xie Jinglan: ??? Weren't you paralyzed?!
Xiao Huaijin (smiling): I was pretending.
Prince Rui, at first: This prince has no interest in women.
Prince Rui, later: This prince is only uninterested in women other than his princess consort.
(So when are all those beggar lackeys around the princess consort going to get lost?)
