I'm a Substitute? Well, Isn't That Convenient? So Are You. 我是替身？唉，那不巧了吗？你也是。

1. 1 娱 Showbiz: My Sugar Daddy and I Both Mistook Each Other for Our Stand-In 娱乐圈：我和金主都把对方当替身 Jian Man简漫Two Male Leads122k WordsCompleted Everyone in their circle knows Yi Jingshuo keeps a pampered little canary by his side. The young man is exquisitely beautiful and never lets a grudge go unanswered, and Yi Jingshuo is the only one willing to indulge him. Everyone also knows the little canary is a substitute Yi Jingshuo found when he couldn’t have the man he loved. Song Wan knows it too, so he never worries over whether Yi Jingshuo loves him. He lives in the mansion Yi Jingshuo bought him and enjoys the company’s top-tier resourc 47Reads—Score—14d adds

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   Although it's short, the content is really good, quite original, and a sweet little story. [Thumbs up]

2. 2 离 Before Our Divorce, My Contract Wife Pledged Her Life to Her White-Moonlight Lover 离婚前合约妻子跟白月光私定终生 Orange, You’ll Never Get Enough橙子你爱不完Urban365k WordsCompleted [No heartbreak, super sweet] A contract bound Liu Ruyan, the eldest daughter of a powerful financial dynasty, to Jiang Luo, an obscure pianist. Everyone praised Jiang Luo as the perfect man. Even after Liu Ruyan went blind for three years and became moody and unpredictable, Jiang Luo searched every possible medical avenue and gave up his career, finally curing his wife's blindness. What he never expected was for Liu Ruyan's very first reque 20kReads7.3Score1.1k14d adds

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   This dual-personality story is so cool, it's so rare, so rare I almost wrote one myself. I've finally found one! Good!

3. 3 糟 Oh No! The Substitute He Found Has Someone Else in Her Heart 糟糕！他找的替身另有白月光 Xiao Xiao in My Heart心上肖肖Modern Romance235k WordsCompleted (Complete) The South Wind Knows My Heart, Blowing Dreams to Xizhou [Shen Zhiyi and Fu Xizhou, one-on-one, both pure, dual stand-ins, sweet romance with no angst, mutual salvation, both reaching for each other, childhood sweethearts and first loves] Just how devastating can a first love be? Lu Qingzhou always believed Shen Zhiyi loved him to the bone. She would gaze at him in a daze, look at him tenderly with eyes full of affection, and carefully put on his glasses when his eyes grew tired from h 2kReads8.8Score16914d adds

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   A substitute? Why do you think she's so tolerant of you? It's simply because you bear a resemblance to him. 🌿🌿🌿 She doesn't care about anything else.

4. 4 疯 The Unhinged Beauty: Mr. Fu, You're the Substitute 疯批美人：傅总您才是替身 Tangxi Ci棠溪词Modern Romance738k WordsOngoing [Unhinged beauty × scheming stand-in] Secret identities + strong female lead + a touch of wild imagination + two stand-ins (This is a fictional setting. The female lead becomes unhinged later on.) Everyone in the capital knew that Mrs. Fu, Ji Siqing, was merely a substitute for Fu Yanshen’s first love. Everyone treated their marriage as a joke, but for two years, she alone refused to leave. Everyone knew that Ji Siqing was just a stand-in for Fu Yanshen’s first love. What they didn’t know was th 2Reads—Score—14d adds
5. 5 告 Before the Confession, the CEO Realizes His Substitute Is Me 告白前，总裁发现替身竟是我自己 Lin Yunli蔺云里Modern Romance228k WordsCompleted [Two stand-ins, angst before sweetness, the scumbag chases his wife to the crematorium, a story of redemption] Everyone in Jiancheng knows that Shen Yijun and Yan Zhi are married by contract. Shen Yijun chose Yan Zhi only because she looks like He Wanqing. After they married, Yan Zhi took meticulous care of Shen Yijun, always looking after him. One day she gave him gardenias; the next, she painted his portrait. She came up with all kinds of ways to win his favor. But Shen Yijun remained cold and 113Reads8.0Score—14d adds
6. 6 和 After Faking Our Deaths with My Brother, They Followed the Scent Right to Us 和兄弟假死后，她们闻着味追来了 Shen Jiu Zhu沈酒竹Urban520k WordsCompleted They say the aloof young heiress is paralyzed from the waist down, twisted inside, a mad and obsessive woman. She locked up the ex who betrayed her in a psychiatric hospital until he really did go insane. Gu Ming'an was picked up by the heiress on a rainy night. He was crouching under the eaves, filthy and disheveled. Though he was a bit slow, even he knew to take shelter from the rain. At first, the heiress locked him in a dark room because of his handsome face and chiseled abs. Later, his sinc 2.7kReads6.8Score13714d adds
7. 7 长 After Eight Years Together, She Runs to Her First Love at Their Wedding 长跑八年，婚礼现场她奔向白月光 Super-Cute Samoyed超萌萨摩耶Urban1.7M WordsCompleted [A Wife Chases Her Husband After Losing Him (She Can’t Win Him Back) + Second Female Lead Takes Center Stage + Male Lead Is Born with Superhuman Strength] After eight years of pursuing her, Ye Ling finally got his wish and married Su Yan. At the wedding everyone had been waiting for, Su Yan heartlessly left him behind and ran to the man she had always loved. Ye Ling didn’t cry or make a scene. He announced their breakup in front of everyone, saying they had nothing to do with each other anymore. 11.3kReads6.6Score96814d adds
8. 8 成 After Becoming the Stand-In Supporting Actress, I Only Want to Cuddle Up to the Heroine 成为替身女配后只想跟女主贴贴 A Thorn in the Flesh附骨之疽Two Female Leads284k WordsOngoing All because I left a comment in the review section of an old-fashioned stand-in romance novel, a modern office worker with a nine-to-five job transmigrates into the novel as a female stand-in character. Scheming and acting like a green tea? I hate that stuff. But if it’s for a sweet, soft heroine, then, well, I guess I could make an exception. Watch a sweet little green tea win over a cool-on-the-outside, warm-on-the-inside white lotus heroine. 2Reads—Score—14d adds
9. 9 完 It's Over! They All Found Out They Were Replacements! 完蛋！她们都发现自己是替身了！ Bao Renbai宝人百Urban403k WordsCompleted The first time Chi Ran saw the heiress Liu Yingxue, she decided to stay by her side, even though Liu Yingxue only saw her as a stand-in for the woman she loved. A year later, Liu Yingxue’s beloved returned from abroad, and Chi Ran was callously cast aside. Tossing and turning, Chi Ran could only have a cotton doll made that looked just like Liu Yingxue, and hugged it every day. Everyone thought Chi Ran had gone mad from unrequited love, but she remained perfectly calm. “We’re both stand-ins. We 4kReads8.1Score38214d adds
10. 10 离 Divorce Is Great, and I Couldn't Agree More 离婚挺好，我举双手赞成 Flying Cat会飞猫Two Female Leads243k WordsCompleted Ling Rui was a dirt-poor office worker who died suddenly from overwork in her tiny, ten-square-meter rental apartment. When she opened her eyes again, she had transmigrated into a book, becoming a cannon-fodder character with the same name who spent her days courting disaster. In the original story, the cannon fodder makes a scene at every turn and uses all kinds of schemes to marry the heroine. She’d even eat feces if it meant winning the heroine’s love. But the heroine only loves her white moo 377Reads5.9Score10814d adds
11. 11 女 Matriarchy: They're All Bad People 女尊：她们都是坏人 Go Easy on the Sesame Oil少放香油Urban411k WordsCompleted A gambling-addicted mother, a seriously ill father, a younger sister still in school, and him, broken beyond repair. (Updating 10,000 words a day until my liver gives out.) A theater actor transmigrates into a matriarchal world, where he faces one fated heroine after another, while he himself is just a minor character in the early story. Watch Jiang Bai turn the tables. (The exhilarating action starts after ten chapters.) 1.3kReads7.0Score10014d adds
12. 12 小 After His Little Stand-In Left, Mr. Jiang Went Mad Looking for Her 小替身走后，姜先生找疯了 Robin's Little Flowers知更鸟的发发Two Male Leads272k WordsCompleted [The Ex-Wife Chase Begins!!] Yu Xiaoque was picked up from a trash can by Mr. Jiang. The filthy little sparrow became the family's pet canary. Xiaoque thought that as long as he behaved himself, Mr. Jiang would keep him around. So he groomed his feathers until they were spotless. Mr. Jiang said he liked him soft and delicate, so Xiaoque clumsily followed yoga routines on TV, trying to get Mr. Jiang to look his way a little more often. The little sparrow was a silly bird, and he gave the man his 592Reads5.5Score10314d adds

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    Substitute stories usually end badly, but I haven't seen a story with two substitutes yet. 😘😘

13. 13 替 After My Time as a Substitute Ended, I Became Everyone’s Dream 替身结束我成了万人迷 Qing Nanchuan清南川Two Male Leads212k WordsOngoing [Two Male Leads + Substitute Becomes Everyone’s Favorite + The Pursuit After the Breakup + Romantic Rivalry] Wen Yi: Zhouzhou, you smell so good~ Chao Chen: He’s my wife!!! Shao Guizhou: Bro, I’m an option too! Lin Qingzhou has a dream in which he discovers that Chao Chen is the protagonist of this world, Wen Yi is his first love, and Lin Qingzhou himself is nothing but a cannon-fodder substitute. He decides to let himself go and avoid the fate of losing both his lover and his life. But no matte 12Reads—Score—14d adds
14. 14 替 The Substitute’s Acting Is Explosive, and Mr. Song Stumbles into a Trap 替身演技炸裂，宋总阴沟里翻船 Frosty Maples in Late Autumn霜枫晚秋Two Male Leads530k WordsCompleted The person Mr. Song loved went abroad, so he kept a poor student, Chu Yanyi, by his side as a stand-in for two whole years. Mr. Song knew Chu Yanyi was hopelessly in love with him. Those eyes full of affection alone gave him away. When the real thing returned, Mr. Song prepared to send the stand-in away, but the stand-in killed himself. Just as Mr. Song thought Chu Yanyi was dead, he discovered that the man’s parents had been paid to pretend to be his parents, and the urn supposedly holding his 8.5kReads9.2Score98714d adds
15. 15 我 I Achieved Financial Freedom by Playing the Stand-In for His First Love 我靠当白月光替身实现财富自由 Lu7陆7Modern Romance391k WordsCompleted Blurb One I was a professional stand-in, conscientious and dedicated. I occasionally broke character but always kept a clear head. And yet, I humbly fell in love with the salaries they paid me… Yes, all of them. I was working four jobs, after all. Blurb Two Jiang Tian was just like her name: beautiful, with a sweet voice. She drank the strongest liquor, picked the fiercest fights, and did the wildest things. When a domineering CEO offered her a black card to be his stand-in, she thought of the t 167Reads8.4Score—14d adds
16. 16 两 The Two Substitutes 两个替身 Xin Jiu 0℃辛九0℃Two Male Leads149k WordsCompleted Four years ago, Mu Ning was forced abroad by Gu Xibei’s father. Four years later, Mu Ning returned, only to find that Gu Xibei already had a replacement by his side: Qi Ran. Driven by selfish desires, Mu Ning tried to break them apart, for the sake of his ailing mother and for himself. His own staged performance was finally exposed, making him realize that the person he had once loved no longer loved him. Mu Ning could only live for himself. But he later became indirectly responsible for Qi Ran’ 227Reads—Score—14d adds

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