My Husband Wins People Over with His Acting

(I'm not too happy with the outline and am preparing to scrap it and start over. The update schedule is uncertain, so please don't bookmark it just yet~)

Linglong feels that things have been a little off ever since she married the blind Ninth Prince.

First, a woman who disliked her fell into the water in public. Then the Crown Prince, who had broken off their engagement, unexpectedly broke his leg. Even the young hooligan who harassed her ended up strung up on the city wall.

Even stranger, the Ninth Prince, who treats her as a substitute, seems to have developed genuine feelings for her.

Ever since she realized her place, Linglong has been careful to act the part of a substitute, never crossing the line. She does her best to treat his eye condition, waiting for the day they divorce so she can walk away and return to her carefree life as a young physician.

But the more indifferent she is, the stranger Xie Qinghuai's gaze becomes.

It's better to make a clean break than to let things get complicated. Linglong sends him a divorce agreement, declaring her firm resolve not to be anyone's substitute. She even threatens him, saying she's already carrying on a secret affair with the Prince Regent and wants a divorce as soon as possible.

Everything goes quite smoothly, until one day she is drugged and stumbles into the tallest tower in the palace.

Seeing that painfully familiar face, Linglong instinctively tries to run.

Xie Qinghuai pulls her by the waist, calmly unfastens her sash, and speaks in a languid, tender tone she has never heard from him before.

"Since you have a heart for secret affairs, I, your husband, must put it into practice and live up to your expectations."

Linglong always thought marrying Xie Qinghuai was a choice forced upon her. Only later does she learn that every encounter was carefully plotted by him.

The male lead's perspective:

When Xie Qinghuai was a fugitive in the southern frontier, he once promised a young girl that they would stay together for life. But when he returned to the capital, he discovered that she had completely forgotten him.

He has always been a master schemer. He doesn't mind using his wits one more time to take her for himself.

Also known as: I'm My Own Substitute, My Husband's Acting Is Superb, The Prince Regent's Years of Taking What He Wants

Reader's Guide:

☆ The male lead is as gentle and refined as jade on the surface, but obsessive and unhinged underneath. He's a gentleman in disguise at first, then goes completely dark later on.

☆ The male lead has both physical and psychological issues. (He's not blind, just severely visually impaired due to multiple factors.)

☆ Both leads are each other's first and end up together.

Theme: Love can overcome mountains and seas