A bickering couple / They fight because they don't know each other / How could I possibly fall in love with you!
A seemingly pure, angelic noblewoman with a hidden dark side x an unruly, arrogant playboy with a tsundere streak
Ye Lianjing, daughter of Grand Tutor Ye, had bright, expressive eyes and a quiet, unassuming manner. The Empress herself praised her as the model of a noblewoman, and everyone adored her.
That reputation was shattered in the twentieth year of the Tianyuan era. Qin Yi, the second son of Duke Qin and the capital's archetypal playboy, was also its least popular handsome man. He overturned the noblewomen's porridge stall, then saw a beauty standing in the wind and snow with tears on her cheeks. He sneered, "Putting on an act."
Faced with such a public humiliation, Ye Lianjing did not even furrow her brows in front of everyone.
That night, Qin Yi was savagely beaten on his way home. The next day, a memorial impeaching Duke Qin landed on the imperial desk. The day after that, Qin Yi was hauled to the Ye residence with a thorny branch on his back to apologize, his lips bruised blue as he ground out through clenched teeth:
"Just you wait!"
Ye Lianjing smiled without replying. She regretted that the thorny branch was tied to his back. It would have been so much better if Duke Qin had handed it to her. She could have beaten the wretched playboy to death for ruining her plans.
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Ye Lianjing was born into the book Regretting Our Encounter as the white-moonlight female supporting character. She had to overcome a chronic ailment that made her heart race whenever she met a key character, clear up the misunderstandings between the male and female leads, and steer their already-doomed ending back toward a happy one.
As the source of the biggest misunderstanding, Ye Lianjing looked at the heroine, her genuine distant cousin who was pitifully living under someone else's roof. With her heart racing, she spent her days as a noblewoman radiating saintly benevolence, then frantically cleaning up the messes at night.
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As the keeper of the secret that "Ye Lianjing is two-faced," Qin Yi used it to make Ye Lianjing do his schoolwork for half a year. He followed her around like a tail every day, trying to figure out what scheme she was plotting to harm people.
But he found no scheming at all. It was true that she was hopelessly in love with that Liu guy, who was even more annoying than she was. Every time she saw him, she clutched her chest and cried.
Ye Lianjing always half-covered her face when she cried. Tears pattered down in silence.
He worried she might cry until she stopped breathing. Since he was practically her follower, he decided to do something unusual and comfort her by offering a handkerchief. A moment later, it was thrown right back in his face.
Qin Yi nearly toppled over with anger. He yanked the handkerchief off his face, ready to curse her, only to see her red-rimmed eyes as she mocked him without restraint: "Are you stupid? I don't want your wine-soaked handkerchief."
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What does it take to propose to the model noblewoman?
Handsome looks, unwavering devotion, upright character, and both wealth and power.
Qin Yi used to scoff at the big words attributed to the model herself, but at some point, he couldn't help measuring himself against them.
Not enough. Still not enough.
The initial version of this blurb was archived on 2026/4/25.
Theme: Turning hostility into friendship
