From Substitute to Empress

Male Lead’s Blurb:

A new concubine has recently arrived at the Prince of Qin’s estate.

She has a gentle nature, and the other beauties in the estate can bully her as they please. She is stunning, and looks sixty percent like the woman the Prince of Qin loves.

When the enemy captured both her and the woman he loved, the prince did not hesitate to abandon her and choose his beloved. She never complained.

The Prince of Qin was very pleased with this concubine, and even more so when he learned she was the daughter the Minister of Revenue had lost years ago.

He asked the emperor to grant them a marriage, and held their wedding at his military post.

On their wedding night, the drunken Prince of Qin entered the bridal chamber. But the bride was not waiting for him in a wedding gown, blushing as he had imagined.

Instead, she wore armor. With one thrust, she pierced his chest with her sword, then quickly ordered her troops to seize the capital he guarded.

“Who are you?” the captured Prince of Qin asked, humiliated.

The concubine was no longer the least bit meek. She planted a foot on his bloodied chest and laughed. “Su Buqing, the Great Liang Empire’s General Who Guards the Nation, the enemy you want to have hacked to pieces every single day.”

Female Lead’s Blurb:

Su Buqing was adored by her father from a young age. She should have been able to live happily ever after. But the Yan Kingdom suddenly declared war on Great Liang, and her father was hacked to death by Yan soldiers before her eyes.

From that day on, she swore that she would destroy the Yan Kingdom, no matter how long it took.

She disguised herself as a man and joined the army, winning victory after victory. But because of her low birth, the emperor sent a relative of the imperial consort to take command of her troops.

The man was a coward. If she submitted to him, Su Buqing feared she would never destroy the Yan Kingdom in her lifetime.

Then she noticed that the new general from the Yan Kingdom was very much her type...

A scheming, drama-loving female general x a reserved, secretly passionate prince

There’s more to the substitute story than meets the eye. Both leads are each other’s first and only. Happy ending.

Theme: Reject emotional fraud and build healthy relationships together.