After I Took Her Place as the Bride, My Cold-Faced Husband Saw Me in a New Light

Substitute Bride from a Concubine's Branch x Cold-Faced General + Substitute Bride's Rise + Marriage First, Love Later + Political Scheming and Sweet Romance + Happy Ending

I am Yun Wan, the most overlooked daughter of the Minister of Revenue's household. I took my runaway legitimate younger sister's place and married Lu Lin, the famous General Who Guards the North.

On our wedding night, he lifted my veil, his gaze cold as ice. "Since you are not the one I wanted, just be a good Mrs. Lu and don't cause trouble."

With that, he turned and left me alone in the bridal chamber.

That suited me just fine. This was a marriage of convenience, after all. He had his beloved, and I had the medical books my mother left me.

When the servants in the manor shorted me on supplies, I didn't get angry. When my legitimate younger sister spread rumors to frame me, I wasn't afraid.

When an epidemic broke out in the suburbs of the capital and the Imperial Medical Bureau was helpless, I dug out my mother's notes on infectious diseases and risked everything to develop a prescription.

When I handed it to Lu Lin, he studied me for a long time before finally overruling the objections of everyone else and allowing me to try it.

The epidemic was brought under control. When the Noble Consort suffered a difficult labor, I used golden needles to save her life, and my name became famous.

It wasn't until the jade pendant from the frontier reappeared that I learned the truth: all along, when he sought to marry a daughter of the Yun family, the one he was looking for was me, the daughter of the physician who had once saved his life.

When the frontier was in danger, I joined the army as a physician. As a storm of arrows descended, he leaped in front of me to shield me.

Watching his armor turn red with blood, I said through my tears, "If anything happens to you, what use is all my medical skill?"

He smiled and wiped away my tears, his voice gentle. "Then spend your whole life treating me, little by little."

Theme: Love may be separated by mountains and seas, but both can be overcome.