Independent Romance 網路小說與 Substitute Bride 故事

Elena Vale was never supposed to be the bride. When her twin sister vanished the night before her wedding, Elena was forced to step in and marry Dorian Blackwood her childhood crush, her sister’s first love, and now, her cold husband. Dorian humiliated her at the altar, treating her like a cheap replacement. But the nightmare truly began when her sister returned halfway through the reception, accusing Elena of kidnapping her to steal her wedding. Armed with a tampered voice recording, everyone turned against Elena including the man whose name she had just taken. To break her, Dorian handed her an impossible, failing business deal to fix overnight. He expected her to fail. Behind the quiet, unwanted daughter was a sharp mind capable of bringing his empire to its knees. As Elena begins uncovering the truth behind her sister's frame job, she exposes a web of dangerous secrets, lies, and a hidden identity that changes everything. Dorian Blackwood never wanted Elena as his wife. What happens when the woman he tried to break becomes the only one he can’t afford to lose?

My twin sister ran to Paris. My mother gave me an ultimatum. To keep my comatose Grand-mother breathing, I became the substitute! Identical to my Twin-sister in every way except for a hidden birthmark on my collarbone, I put on her wedding gown and walked down the aisle to marry Michael Sterling, the city’s coldest, most ruthless CEO. The deal was simple: survive three years as his unloved, invisible contract wife, collect my mother’s medical funds, and disappear forever. Michael treated me like a shallow transaction, warning me that his heart belonged to another woman. I suffered his coldness in silence, counting down the days until my freedom. But one unexpected night changed everything, leaving me with a secret pregnancy and an escape plan I couldn't afford to lose. When the contract ended, I signed the divorce papers under my sister’s name and vanished without a trace. Now, years later, Michael has finally uncovered the terrifying truth: the quiet, enduring wife he ignored, hurt, and slowly grew to crave was never Gemma. Being in a relationship with his business rival, will Michael fight for this Daughter and I or will not?

She was never supposed to be the bride. Isolde Verrian has spent her life invisible — the daughter no one wanted, doing the work no one thanked her for. When the King of Morvane demands a sacrifice to end a hundred-year war, her family doesn't hesitate to offer up the daughter they can afford to lose. So Isolde takes her sister's name. And walks straight into the hands of a man rumored to have buried three brides before her. He finds out immediately. He keeps her anyway. King Kaelen Vane was never supposed to want a substitute. But the moment he realizes the woman in front of him isn't the bride he was promised, he makes a choice no one expects — least of all Isolde. He doesn't send her back. Now she's trapped in a court built on fear, married to a man whose reputation might not be the whole truth — and might still be dangerous enough to kill her. To survive, Isolde will have to uncover exactly what happened to the queens who came before her. Before she becomes the next name no one speaks of again. A stolen name. A dangerous king. A bride who was never supposed to be his — and now can't imagine being anyone else's.