Multiple Male Leads + Everyone's Favorite + Male Rivalry + Western Europe + Beastfolk + Soap Opera Drama + Male Substitute + Gong Sea Horse
In the mind of Percival, a noble young master with seahorse genes, the upper class is glamorous and noble, while the lower class is crude and lowly. The social hierarchy is an iron law that has stood unchanged since time immemorial. No matter how much he hates it, he cannot fight it.
Because he is a seahorse beastman.
To break free from his cage, Percival carefully chose a sacrifice and put on an act of gentle kindness, keeping up the charade with Xian Ling for a long time.
But before the other could fall for him, he fell first.
He began to hesitate, to waver. Maybe being with this lower-class woman wouldn't be so bad?
Xian Ling, a lower-class woman: Wait, wait, wait. You have to get in line.
After transmigrating, Xian Ling survived in the Lower City by scavenging garbage. She never believed good fortune would just fall into her lap.
She didn't believe in love, much less warmth and kindness. People of the lower class couldn't afford to believe in such things. To climb the social ladder, she could put on a thousand different acts, and Percival wasn't the first target she'd gone after.
Faced with the young master pretending to be kind and innocent in front of her, she'd only meant to play along for a while and get a pass to the upper class. Nothing else mattered.
But how did it happen that... the young master seemed to have acted himself into falling for her?
She didn't mind having one more boyfriend.
As long as...
Her ex-boyfriend, who kept searching for her after she abruptly dumped him; her ex-ex-boyfriend, whom she took money from while pretending they were star-crossed lovers; her current boyfriend, the young master's cousin, who is the very picture of a pure white jasmine; and her former boss, now a poisonous gentleman she's keeping on the hook...
As long as none of you run into each other.
That should work... right?
