A Priceless Marriage

Yu Gege17K Novel Network

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Summary

When Yu Xueyao visits a classmate's home, she unexpectedly becomes entangled in a series of misfortunes plaguing the Huo family. To salvage the situation, she stands in for someone in a wedding ceremony and briefly becomes a bride. Her temporary husband, Huo Qikang, is a chronically ill man of aloof temperament who often speaks to her in a cold, forbidding manner. Within the Huo mansion, wives and concubines engage in open and covert rivalries, and even the servants harbor their own schemes. With her candid and cheerful nature, Yu Xueyao navigates the family's internal conflicts while gradually drawing closer to this frail young master who is cold on the outside but warm within, teaching herself medicine along the way in an attempt to change his fate. The story revolves around how a sham marriage turns into something real, interwoven with family grudges and romantic entanglements.

Editor's review

This book suits readers who enjoy period family intrigue and the stand-in bride, marry-first-love-later formula. Its appeal lies in the personality contrast between the frail, cold-faced young master and the cheerful heroine, and in the open and covert struggles among the wives, concubines, and servants of the Huo mansion, with a pace leaning toward everyday buildup and emotional push-and-pull. The weak points are a lengthy opening setup, many side characters in the family-intrigue subplots, and some passages that fall into melodrama.

Who it's for

A good fit for

Readers who enjoy period family intrigue and family grudges
Readers who favor the stand-in bride and marry-first-love-later formula
Readers who like the contrast between a frail, cold-faced male lead and a sunny heroine

Not a good fit for

Readers who want fast pacing and strong plot
Readers who dislike polygamous family-intrigue setups

Reading tips

First sort out the relationships among the Huo family's first, second, and third madams and their children to follow the family-intrigue subplots
Treat the young master's recurring illness in the early chapters as buildup for the romance, and read patiently until their time together after the stand-in wedding
Keep an eye on the heroine's self-taught medicine thread; it is the key to her changing her fate.

About the publisher

17K Novel Network

17K Novel Network (17K小说网) is a publishing platform centred on online literature, with 10,912 titles in its catalogue; publicly available information is limited, and its founding background and country or region are not confirmed. Judging from the existing titles, its publishing scope covers common categories such as male-oriented fiction, Eastern fantasy, urban fiction, female-oriented fiction, time-travel and alternate-history stories, and selected fiction, spanning male-oriented cultivation and urban-life themes as well as female-oriented time-travel and quick-transmigration narratives. Representative titles include Deities: Recruiting Earth Players from the Start, Rebirth of the Nine-Tailed Superstar, Quick Transmigration: When a Max-Level Boss Becomes a Toxic Dad, Supreme Pill King, My Beautiful Wife, Chaos Tang, Wind Howling through the Jianghu, and Great Qin: My Inner Thoughts Overheard by the Ancestral Dragon from the Start, most of which unfold with the length and pacing of online serialization. Representative authors include Yang Zhizhi, Yuyi Tingbing, Xuanyuan Lvedan, Zhenyong, Manyu, Wuweijiu, Meng Qingxuan and Tianyan Junran, reflecting a publishing approach built on contracted online authors and organized by genre.

FAQ

Why does the heroine stand in for someone in the wedding ceremony?

She is drawn into the Huo family's disasters while visiting, and to salvage the situation she temporarily stands in for someone in the wedding.

What kind of person is the male lead?

Chronically ill, pale-faced, taciturn, and cold, yet strikingly handsome and notably talented.

Is this a marry-first-love-later story?

Yes. The male and female leads begin with a fake marriage and gradually fall in love through their time together.

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About the author

Yu Gege Author

Yu Gege is a web-fiction author about whom little verifiable public information is available. One work by this author is currently included in the library, the representative title Tianjia Yinyuan (A Sky-High Marriage). Judging from its common categories, the book is grouped under premium fiction and premium ancient romance, suggesting that Yu Gege's writing mainly targets the ancient-romance genre, with an emphasis on emotional threads and the development of character relationships. Because reliable details about the author's life, nationality and writing career are lacking, little more can be said about the author's background. As far as the existing work shows, the pen name Yu Gege carries a classical flavor that echoes the ancient-romance positioning, and the book's listing as a premium title indicates a certain readability and audience base within its genre. Readers wishing to understand the author's style may begin with Tianjia Yinyuan, paying attention to its emotional development and narrative pacing.