The Whole Capital Is Shipping Us

【A scheming, black-hearted heroine + a sharp-tongued, tsundere male lead + a sweet romance with mutual devotion】 Recently, the storybooks The Arrogant Minister and His Silly Little Wife, The Tyrannical Imperial Tutor's Passionate Love: Where Can the Silly Beauty Run?, and The Long Road to Winning Over a Minister Who Says One Thing and Means Another have become all the rage in the capital. Their protagonists' love story has readers utterly obsessed! The storybooks' male lead is Ji Shen, the eldest son of the Ji family and the current emperor's tutor. Young yet powerful, he is paired with Meng Wu, the most beautiful woman in the capital. Their romance sets off sparks everywhere! Little do readers know that in private, one has no idea who the other is, while the other can't stand his pretentious act. - Ji Shen is the dream man of the capital's women. Only Meng Wu knows how awful he can be: he clearly likes her, yet treats her coldly. Later, she learns that Ji Shen is proud of his talents and refuses to admit he's bewitched by her looks. He'd rather deny that he could possibly like a silly girl like her, who once scored zero on an exam. So Meng Wu goes from looking down on him, to despising him, to playing tricks on him and making him pay. In just a few short months, she gets Ji Shen to willingly admit how despicable he is. -- The new emperor ascends the throne, and the deposed crown prince, who should have been held in the Imperial Clan Court, vanishes overnight. Ordered to investigate the prince's whereabouts, Ji Shen goes to the Meng residence to question the family. In the middle of their conversation, Meng Wu's niece comes in to pour tea, dressed like a little peacock showing off its feathers. Her eyes sparkle as she flirts with him. - Ji Shen, who hates nothing more than having a fool flirt with him, leaves the Meng residence. The next day, the capital's storybooks have become Hooray! My Favorite Couple Finally Got Together, The Billion-Dollar Bride of a Wealthy Heir, and Ten Miles of Wedding Finery: Will You Let Me Marry You? Ji Shen suspects he's been set up. Later, holding Meng Wu in his arms, he says, “Wife, you're really something!”