I Mistook the Villain for His Stand-In, and He Won Me Over on His Own

Marriage first, love later / older, flirtatious male lead / devoted, sweet romance

A pampered young heiress who pretends to be sweet × a possessive, scheming heir to a powerful family

Chi Jingxia transmigrates into a sweet romance novel as the wicked female supporting character.

She's rich and beautiful, and has a domineering CEO older brother who's obsessed with his little sister. They've supposedly got a bad relationship, but he sends her money every day.

"It's fine. Wherever the money is, that's where the love is."

She decides to mend things with her brother, only to learn that she also has a brooding, obsessive heir to one of the capital's most powerful families as her fiancé.

But her fiancé is the story's villain, the kind who breaks legs and cuts out kidneys, so she decides to call off the engagement at once.

"You're so handsome. I want to keep you..."

She turns around and flirts with a man at a bar whose looks, bearing, and figure are exactly her type.

"Sure. You'd better keep your word," the man says with a quiet laugh.

But just as she gets swept off her feet, she discovers she can't get out of her engagement to the villain!

Cen Jinzhou holds her in his arms.

"Baby, didn't you promise to keep me for the rest of my life? Didn't you say you liked me best?"

Wait, the person she flirted with and promised to keep was the villain himself, Cen Jinzhou!

Chi Jingxia: "Weren't we just supposed to sleep together, not fall in love?"

"But I fell for you a long time ago, in secret."

A calculated flirtation makes Cen Jinzhou fall for the fiancée he was forced to marry. He indulges her clumsy little schemes and humbles himself to play along, only for her to be utterly heartless, turn around and try to end the engagement, and even look for someone else to marry.

The real unhinged villain, Cen Jinzhou, smiles softly. "It's all right, baby. I've got plenty of strength and tricks up my sleeve."