Smile and Endure? Not This Time

Adrian wakes on his wedding night into a body and a life that are not his. He has landed in a novel, as a useless, well-dressed young master everyone in the household has written off. His bride is not in his bed. She is in his cousin's, and the whole family knows. They gather to tell him to keep quiet, take the humiliation, and not embarrass the main branch any further. That is when a system switches on inside his head, one that can turn a family disgrace into a name people say with respect, feeding him poetry, martial arts, medicine, and business, all of it learned overnight. He refuses to be quiet. He turns on the people in the room and answers each insult in front of the others, one by one, and starts slapping down everyone who has spent years using him. Claire Collins is the noblewoman who was made to marry him. She has been through this life once already and knows how it goes, and this time around she picked him on purpose.