Just a Substitute, No Need to Take It Seriously

Not a feel-good power fantasy · Realistic workplace romance | Stand-in for the white moonlight | Written for you, sensitive and insecure, yet wonderful just as you are.

Female growth | Mutual healing | Love amid hatred | Both leads are virgins | Business warfare and revenge | An intense push and pull

Everyone says, “A fake is still a fake.”

But what if the real thing is fake too?

What could prove that a fake stand-in isn't the real thing?

A highly sensitive, avoidant advertising professional × a rational, controlling baking entrepreneur.

A clever, stubborn “fake” who turns everything inward × a scheming, arrogant “player” bent on revenge.

Both leads have PTSD. Misunderstandings from the start, with a conspiracy running throughout and desire and love pulling them in opposite directions.

Xia Zhu has a habit of keeping everyone at a distance.

She believes the “magic” of advertising can maintain order, until she meets Xu Chengyan on a stormy day.

This demanding client turns her life upside down.

Their story begins with him treating her as a “fake” stand-in, but it unexpectedly uncovers a decade-old mystery surrounding the Nancheng fire and throws their already misaligned lives into upheaval.

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“Xu Chengyan, everyone is one of your pawns, including me. You have been playing us all from the very start!”

As purple lightning tears across the night sky, Xia Zhu points a blade at him and gives him the words he has waited years to hear.

“I love you too.”