Even a Substitute Bride Has a White Moonlight

Before marrying Li Chengwei, Su Jinzhi already knew that the person he loved was her half-sister, Su Yuzhi, and that she was nothing more than a sacrificial bride brought in as a substitute.

She had taken a sword for Li Chengwei, injured her hands, brewed medicine, tested poison, and damaged her voice.

She would brave any danger for him. Everyone thought she loved Li Chengwei desperately, and sometimes even Li Chengwei believed it himself.

Until one day, Li Chengwei was gravely wounded. Su Jinzhi appeared soon after, and he assumed she would save him as she always had.

But after glancing at his wound, Su Jinzhi reached inside and pulled out a strange bug. Then...

She left him there, barely clinging to life, and walked away without looking back, taking the strange bug with her...

Later, Li Chengwei finally understood: all along, Su Jinzhi had been risking her life to protect not him, but the medicinal parasite inside his body, because only it could save the one she loved.

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On a country path, wind swept up the dust, and Su Jinzhi's carriage stood beneath the setting sun.

Li Chengwei blocked her way with hundreds of death warriors. A coffin sat to his left, and a sedan chair waited to his right. His lips cracked as he shouted at Su Jinzhi, "Su Jinzhi, are you getting into the coffin or the sedan chair? Pick one!"

Li Chengwei had always thought of himself as a demon in a haunted realm, living only to drag every monster and fiend down with him. That was until a wild rose grew in that realm.

She had given him the gentlest tenderness and the sharpest pain, yet he still wanted to hold her tight, even if her thorns left him drenched in blood.

Reader's note: I have already asked my editor to change the title to The Substitute Bride Has a Beloved Too.

1: The setting is loosely based on the Ming and Qing dynasties.

2: An unconventional pursuit-after-the-wife-and-regret arc.

3: The male lead has a secondary consort in name only. If that bothers you, please don't read.

4: Both leads are each other's first.

5: This is not a tragic romance. The heroine has never liked the male lead.

6: The male lead is genuinely unhinged, the kind who can go mad at the drop of a hat.

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Easygoing little ray of sunshine vs. an unhinged, frail young nobleman

Next novel: Seventh Imperial Uncle

On her deathbed, Liang Shiwen finally learned that she had loved Song Heng so devotedly because she had been placed under a Love Parasite spell.

After using the Liang family to seize the throne, Song Heng immediately betrayed them, leaving her family destroyed and her to die a miserable death. Her resentment lingered in the palace, unable to fade.

Later, the Seventh Imperial Uncle, Song Huaiyi, entered the palace alone. He not only slaughtered everyone in the Golden Throne Hall, but crushed Song Heng's throat with his bare hands and hung his severed head over the palace gate where she had once lived.

At last, her resentment was laid to rest.

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After returning to her youth, Song Heng assumed Liang Shiwen would once again throw herself at him as she had in her previous life, then fall hopelessly in love with him.

But when she saw him, Liang Shiwen completely ignored him and threw herself into someone else's arms instead. She turned the flower-like smile she had once reserved for him on another man and began acting coy with him.

And that man was none other than the Seventh Imperial Uncle, who had personally taken his life in his previous life.

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Theme: Save the heart before saving the person