Substitute Bride: My Fake Blind Husband

Chapter 3 The Shadow's Gambit

Word Count: 745 | Released on: 10/06/2026

reflection in her eyes wasn't of a simple girl, but of lines of code and the jagged pea

ions platform for a firm called Pegasus

y. Shadow, you ghosted all day! The deal on that biotech firm

o all in. And I need you to draft an asset-stripping agreement. Move

confused emojis. Strip them?

of radio silence. The company is in your hands

o's the unlucky guy who managed to

f a thousand such cleanups made the process swift and automatic. In seconds,

ry of the Carlisle estate, another convers

r at the courthouse," Cornelius Carlisle

ace was an impassive mask behind dark sunglass

oom. "Donovan, are you certain about this? Marrying a woman

Donovan's voice was flat, empty. "If her

ams. Donovan, charging into the inferno at his Hampton estate to save his fiancée, Juliette Ster

ed in nothing but the systematic dismantling of his rivals within the family. Cornelius had hoped

le. "This is the doss

cessary. Who she is, what she looks l

reach. Defeated, he waved for the butler to proceed with

, Donovan was still for a long moment. Then he

and sharp. They reflected the moonlight streaming through the t

and steady. He walked to the window, his posture

a wife. A harmless, decorative piece to complete the picture of a broken man, a man no longer a threat. Karyn Turn

delicate touch, she adjusted the micro-camera hidden in its button eye. She checked the encrypted satellite communication dev

rrow, Chloe Turner would cease to exist.

s, their own agendas, were on a collision course. A

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“The Turner family was on the brink of absolute bankruptcy. To wipe their debts clean, they agreed to marry a daughter to Donovan Carlisle, the notorious, blind, and disabled heir of the Carlisle Group. But the biological daughter, Karyn, threw a hysterical fit, screaming she would never marry a cripple. So, the parents turned their cold, calculating eyes to their adopted daughter, Chloe. They knew Chloe had a neurodevelopmental disorder. They knew she was simple. Yet, without a second thought, they dressed her in oversized, childish rags and threw her into the Carlisle estate as a sacrificial lamb. Before she left, they tested her intelligence one last time with a one-dollar and a hundred-dollar bill, exchanging smug smiles when she happily chose the smaller note. They thought they were sending a broken toy to a useless man. They didn't know that Chloe had been faking her simplicity for years just to survive their cruelty. Behind the mask of an idiot child clutching a teddy bear was "Shadow," a ruthless, anonymous Wall Street genius. She planned to use this marriage as her perfect cover to strip the Turners of everything and build her own empire behind the back of a blind husband. But on her wedding night, when she entered the master suite, Donovan didn't stumble. He grabbed her chin with deadly accuracy, his eyes sharp behind his dark glasses. "You're lying," he whispered. Her blind husband could see perfectly fine. And the ultimate game of deception had just begun.”