The laid-back Xie Mingshu transmigrates into a period romance novel about a cruel stand-in marriage, becoming the heroine.
The male lead's crimes are as follows:
1. He lies that he loves the heroine and marries her.
2. Under the pretense of indulging his preferences, he makes her wear the same clothes as his white moonlight, style her hair the same way, make similar expressions, play the white moonlight's favorite instrument, and so on.
3. To remain chaste for his white moonlight, he pretends to be recovering from an injury and refuses to consummate the marriage.
After learning the truth, the heroine falls apart, and the story launches into dozens of chapters of painful romance, ending with her dying of sorrow.
When Xie Mingshu arrives, the story has just begun.
She has a few days before she meets the idiot male lead.
Should she run away?
No.
She barely has any money in her pockets and is worrying about how to get by.
Since the sucker is coming right to her door, she might as well go to his estate and lie flat for two years.
First, she'll get the lavish dowry the scumbag will buy her: her premarital property. Then she'll take half his fortune: her divorce settlement. Finally, she'll pretend to have come to her senses, divorce him without a backward glance, and make her escape in style.
What could be better?
To play her role as the stand-in properly and keep the scumbag from changing his mind and returning her, she carefully follows every detail in the book each day: the outfits, the poses, everything. She intends to make sure he pays willingly, right down to his last penny.
At last, the day comes when she's supposed to "come to her senses" and divorce him without hesitation.
That's when Xie Mingshu realizes:
Damn, she mistook the male lead.
*
The heir to the Duke of Zhenguo's household, Mu Linchuan, is known throughout the capital as a cold-faced tyrant who has no interest in women.
At the beginning of the year, he suddenly took the initiative to marry.
A friend asked, "You walk around with that deadpan, icy face all day. Can your wife really put up with you?"
Mu Linchuan propped his head on one hand and shot him a disdainful look.
"My wife is gentle and considerate, and she loves being close to me. She even lets me choose her clothes and hair ornaments every day. What would a bachelor like you know about such marital bliss?"
#The scumbag is someone else, but I'll soon be the scumbag heroine
#My wife loves me more than anyone in the world, and you don't need to tell me that
A half-hearted heroine who only wants to lie flat and have money fall from the sky x a seemingly aloof, stone-faced male lead who is secretly a hopeless romantic with a rich inner world
*Marriage first, love later
*Blurb written on 25/12/8
Theme: Sincerity is the cornerstone of love
