[Hot-tempered, sarcastic male lead x scheming, theatrical female lead + everyone jumps to the wrong conclusions + refreshing subversion of tropes]
From the start, after sleeping with the true heir's stepsister, he braced himself to be beaten and thrown out.
Instead, his green-tea stepsister turned against the heir, weeping as she declared, “We’re in love with each other!”
He stole jade pendants, beat up the heir, stopped the Prince of Qin, and ruined his sister’s engagement. He did every bad thing imaginable.
Every time he confessed, his whole family looked at him as if they understood:
“You picked a fight with Xiao Chen to help him improve, didn’t you?”
“You ruined the engagement because you’d already figured out the chancellor was planning a rebellion?”
“You stopped Father because you knew the emperor would be assassinated and wanted to save him from disaster?!”
