A Substitute Bride to a Wastrel with a Shattered Spirit Palace

[Complete] After the head of the Huo family died, his exceptionally gifted legitimate son, Huo Jue, also became a cripple when his spiritual palace shattered. The Huo family fell into decline overnight. The Mu family had once insisted on an alliance with the Huo family. Since the heads of the two families had been close friends and sworn a vow before Heaven, there was no backing out. The wedding went ahead as planned. The vow could not be broken, but it had never specified who would take part. So the Mu family pulled a switcheroo, substituting Mu Qinglan, an unremarkable member of the family, for their eldest young lady. They dressed her up and sent her to marry Huo Jue, whose spiritual palace had collapsed. The bride had been replaced and even implanted with a puppet worm. Huo Jue already knew the Mu family intended to use her to steal the Huo family’s supreme magical artifact before he had even lifted her veil. A month after the wedding, the little puppet did indeed sneak into Huo Jue’s room in the middle of the night, unable to wait another moment as she crept over to his bed. Huo Jue had been waiting for the Mu family’s puppet to show her true colors. He lay in bed, slowing his breathing. His subordinates were all outside the door. If the puppet dared touch the spiritual artifact around his neck, she would be seized on the spot. But instead, she crept closer, held her breath, and knelt beside the bed. Lowering her head toward Huo Jue’s hand, which lay neatly in front of him, she planted a warm little kiss on his fingertips. Then she stood up, hopped three times on the spot, and started dancing around the room in silent delight like a woman possessed. Huo Jue: … The subordinates poised for action outside: … Mu Qinglan: The person I’m marrying in place of the bride is my idol. Could I possibly get any luckier? #If we girls want something, we have to get our hands on it!# #As the saying goes, a relationship cures all ills# A lovesick girl who has schemed for years to win over her crush vs. an icy sculpture of a man who accidentally melts into a puddle of springtime tenderness Reader’s Guide A sweet, everyday romance with lots of lovey-dovey antics and no grand, sweeping plot. This is a woman-pursues-man story, and the heroine is a shameless, eccentric lovesick girl. Don’t force yourself if it’s not your thing. This book shares the setting of “Why Is My Junior Fellow Apprentice Like This?” but tells a standalone story. The two books don’t affect each other, and their characters only make brief appearances. The timelines are different too, so you can read this one on its own. Any comments identifying the characters with real people will be deleted. My personal cultivation system: Enter Delusion (physical fitness), Break Delusion (ageless looks), Transcend Mortality (adds 250 years to one’s lifespan, 500 years at the middle stage, 1,000 years at the peak), Cocooned Soul (can freely descend into another person’s body), Spirit Union (sharing the lifespan of Heaven and Earth). Demonic cultivator system: Sharpening (entering demonic cultivation), Soul Shattering (mid-level demon), Spirit Unleashed (great demon), each with early, middle, and peak stages. January 31, 2022. Screenshot taken. Coming next ↓ “I’ll Take This Free Meal First” by Sanri Chengjing Hua Chao spent her whole life doing good deeds and accumulating virtue. Even when someone stabbed her, she would come up with a hundred reasons why they must have had no choice. Only after she was struck dead by a tribulation lightning bolt did she learn that the world she lived in was a cultivation novel, starring her junior fellow apprentice as he rose to power. From beginning to end, she had been nothing but a self-sacrificing do-gooder who pushed the plot along, causing trouble and getting scolded. Looking back on her life, Hua Chao realized that the only time she had ever enjoyed herself was when her second senior fellow apprentice, who loved her to the point of madness, had gone crazy and kept her by his side. She had been waited on hand and foot, with luxurious bedding beneath her and never a foot touching the ground. Moved by the immense merit she had accrued, Heaven gave her a chance to be reborn. She returned to the night when her second senior fellow apprentice, afflicted by a love curse, had nearly taken liberties with her. Outside, fierce winds howled and torrential rain poured down. She was supposed to use a magical artifact to grievously damage her second senior fellow apprentice’s spiritual roots, leaving him unable to cultivate immortality and forcing him to cultivate demonic arts instead. Then she was supposed to escape his “clutches” and run, weeping, to her junior fellow apprentice’s room. Thinking back on it, Hua Chao rubbed her face in frustration. She tossed the magical artifact she had pulled out, along with her sash, onto the floor. Then she lay down on the bed and crooked a finger at her second senior fellow apprentice, who had already lost control of himself. Hua Chao: “Come here.” Blurb written October 14, 2022. Screenshot taken. Theme: What you can’t forget will eventually answer your call.