Su Jin spent eighteen years disguised as a man. Now a Hanlin Academy compiler, she lives by four words: Keep your head down and don’t make waves.
Then an imperial edict came crashing down: she was to marry the eldest daughter of Duke Lu’s household.
Disobey, and her whole family would be executed. Tell the truth, and she’d be put to death all the same. Su Jin gritted her teeth. Fine, she’d marry the girl and treat her like a roommate. No loss for her.
On her wedding night, she downed half a pot of courage-boosting liquor and tremblingly lifted the veil...
Beneath it was the face of her colleague Lu Shi’an, whom she’d secretly loved for three years.
Su Jin’s eyes went wide. “What are you doing here?!”
Lu Shi’an calmly poured them a cup of wedding wine. “I’m the one you married, dear husband.”
As it turned out, there was no unmarried daughter in the Duke of Lu’s household. This gentleman had disguised himself as a woman to marry her, and he’d even dared to deceive the emperor. And all those 365 times she’d secretly looked at him in the Hanlin Academy, he’d “happened” to look back every single time. It had all been deliberate.
“You joined the Hanlin Academy for me?” “Yes.”
“You sit beside me every day for me?” “Yes.”
“And all those times you brought me hot tea, tucked a hand warmer into my hands, and got me out of trouble... you did all that for me?”
Lu Shi’an smiled faintly and straightened her crooked hairpiece. “Why else? You think I’ve got nothing better to do?”
Su Jin: ...So all along, I was the only one being played?
They both reveal their disguises, they both have secret crushes, and they both choose each other. In short, it’s a sweet, doting everyday romance about two liars starting a life together. The male lead has been putting on an act from beginning to end, but his love for you is real.
