[Period setting + military marriage + substitute bride + whirlwind marriage + real and fake heiresses + doting husband + secret love comes true + face-slapping + pocket dimension]
When Jiang Shiyao opened her eyes, she had become the short-lived cannon-fodder female supporting character in a novel.
The original had eagerly awaited being found by her birth parents, only to be treated unfairly and neglected because they favored her siblings. They even tried to force her to take the place of another bride and marry the male lead, who had been falsely accused and sent into exile, and was believed to be unable to have children.
The male lead in the book was an upstanding young man: cool and restrained, with broad shoulders, a narrow waist, and eight-pack abs that were enough to make anyone swoon. What's more, his family would be exonerated in six months, and their fortunes would rise even higher.
Marry him! She had to marry him!
Before leaving for the countryside, she beat up her scheming adoptive sister and emptied the Jiang family's treasures!
After arriving in the countryside, Jiang Shiyao had barely met the male lead when she heard that he already had someone he liked. All she could do was suggest a marriage of convenience, planning to have him find her an excellent match in the military once his family was exonerated.
But she never expected their fake marriage to become the real thing. On their wedding night, the usually stone-faced officer's eyes burned with desire, and he was nearly frantic. Later, she even became pregnant with twins, a boy and a girl, thoroughly proving wrong everyone in the capital who thought the Pei family would have no heirs.
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Pei Yanzhou had someone else in his heart, so he was deeply unhappy with his arranged marriage. But when he unexpectedly went to the countryside, he discovered that his bride was the very person he had been longing for.
His new bride was sweet and gentle, and she knew medicine. His whole family thought they'd struck gold and spoiled her rotten!
At first, the cool and restrained Pei Yanzhou seemed entirely uninterested in her. But after their wedding night, he couldn't get enough of her and became addicted.
