I Choose the Third Uncle
Su Ruan, 28, ER trauma surgeon, is killed by a drunk driver after a 36-hour shift. She wakes up as Su Lianxin, 18, the useless second daughter of the Su....
Su Ruan, 28, ER trauma surgeon, is killed by a drunk driver after a 36-hour shift. She wakes up as Su Lianxin, 18, the useless second daughter of the Su Chancellor house in the Great Yan Dynasty, three breaths after being strangled to death by her own elder sister and her fiancé, Crown Prince Yan Che. It is the Choosing Ceremony. The Emperor asks Lianxin who she will marry to atone for her "shameless attempt to seduce the Crown Prince." In the book she read in her past life, Lianxin begs for Yan Che and is humiliated, poisoned, and dies. Ruan is not that girl. She points at the jade palanquin in the corner, where the empire's ghost lives, Third Imperial Uncle Yan Beixiao, 26, war god, poisoned three years ago, legs crippled, in a waking coma for a year. "Him. I want the cripple." The court laughs. Yan Che is furious. Her sister Su Wanrou is delighted. They all think she just married a corpse. Only Ruan does not know, Yan Beixiao is locked-in. He can hear everything, feel everything, he just cannot move. And from the first night in the cold Prince Xiao manor, this sharp-tongued little wife starts talking to him while she tries to cure him, cursing, plotting, stealing his kisses to "check his cranial nerves", and falling in love with a man who cannot answer back, until the day his finger twitches. Healing him will paint a target on both their backs, because the people who poisoned him are the same people who killed Su Lianxin, and they sit on the throne.