The Substitute Bride: The Mad Minister's Obsession

Forced to marry a wastrel in her sister's place, Shen Xuejin hides her dying mother in the Marquis estate and plays the obedient bride by day—while poisoning her treacherous half-sister by night. But her carefully laid revenge unravels when a storm traps her alone with Huo Nanchi, the dynasty's most brilliant and dangerous official. The cold, untouchable scholar she's admired from afar pins her against the library shelves, his grip possessive, his whisper searing. He knows her secrets. And he wants her for himself.