Matriarchy: I Married the Stand-In Crown Prince After Reincarnating as the Villain

[A lecherous, carefree heroine × a cool, repressed hero with a hidden dark side]

"Flirts her way through life without losing her heart"× "All bark, soft underneath, and the first to fall"

A mistaken marriage from the start, mutual testing, and a tug-of-war pushed to the limit.

Lin Zhixia:

Her arranged marriage was switched around, and she casually brought home the frail beauty from the Cold Palace.

He had a stunning face, cool and refined, and was especially fun to tease.

So she played up her image as a dissolute womanizer.

Only she knew the truth: he was just an attractive diversion to keep around, and their flirting was all an act.

Fall for him?

Impossible. She sat firmly in control, never taking this bit of romance to heart.

Shen Yun:

The son of a condemned servant, abandoned in the Cold Palace, he became a mere ornament in the General's household after a mistaken marriage.

He knew perfectly well that the General was a notorious flirt, always surrounded by one person after another. To her, he was just a passing novelty.

Later, he reminded himself again and again: he was only getting close to her to borrow her influence, reopen an old case, and clear his father's name. Her frivolous teasing was all an act, nothing to take seriously. Once it was over, he would leave.

But when her fingertips brushed the side of his neck, he would stiffen. When she leaned close to whisper in his ear, his heart would race.

Only when he finally realized what was happening did it hit him:

How had he been the one to fall first?