— Today you treat me as a substitute; tomorrow, I’ll make you call me sister-in-law.
Mu Mingtang is the “white moonlight substitute” in a typical male-lead-centered story. After her family is destroyed, she is taken in by the Jiang family and later becomes engaged to the male lead, Prince Jin, in place of his missing true love.
She has always known she is merely a stand-in, so she suppresses her true self and molds herself into the image of the ideal woman Prince Jin longs for. She doesn’t dare speak freely or laugh openly, living cautiously as the shadow of another woman—until one day, the real Miss Jiang returns.
The true Miss Jiang has been reborn. Upon learning that she is actually the male lead’s “white moonlight,” she immediately comes back to reclaim her engagement and identity. To please his true love, Prince Jin sends the substitute, Mu Mingtang, to Prince Qiyang—a man who has become little more than a living corpse. After all, she is just a crude replacement. Since she angered the real one, she might as well live a life with no children, no support, and remain a widow in all but name.
Mocked as worthless and incapable, Mu Mingtang finally snaps:
Fine. You gave me to another man—then don’t blame me when you end up calling me sister-in-law.
What none of them expected… was that the infamous “God of Slaughter,” Prince Qiyang, would wake up.
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Xie Xuancheng is the late emperor’s legitimate son. He conquered most of the empire himself, but for reasons unknown, his personality drastically changed—he became cruel and bloodthirsty. His father passed the throne to his uncle instead, and Xie Xuancheng eventually succumbed to a debilitating head condition, falling into a coma.
When he wakes, he finds a beautiful woman staring at him in shock by his bedside.
Later, for the sake of this bold and troublesome little woman who fears neither heaven nor earth, he has no choice but to reclaim his title as the God of War, seize back the throne, and unify the world once more.
