I Share a Rental with the Matchmaker

Clear-Headed, Sharp-Tongued Relationship Streamer × Gentle, Earnest, Straightforward Amnesiac Matchmaker

Tang Li, username "Sister Pear, Wake Up," is a small-time relationship advice streamer.

Whenever someone calls in, they can always come up with a whole list of excuses for their partner. Tang Li's job is to tear those excuses apart one by one. Some people say she's too cutting. She thinks that's unfair. It's just dating, so why would anyone give up their own brain over it?

That is, until she met Yue Jian outside her home on a stormy night.

The woman was soaked to the skin, her long hair draped over her shoulders. She couldn't remember anything, no matter what Tang Li asked, except that she was an official in the Department of Fated Bonds, in charge of the red strings.

Tang Li didn't believe in any of that at first. But Yue Jian could see the red strings no one else could, and she really did have a System following her around.

Worse still, somehow the System mistook Tang Li for Yue Jian's assistant.

They had to find Yue Jian's memories and complete her tasks. Just like that, Tang Li got a housemate, and even the relationship problems in her livestream had to be handled by the two of them together.

Tang Li always asked the people involved, "Is this what you want?"

Yue Jian, though, was used to checking the red strings first, to make sure the two people were truly destined for each other.

They argued about it more than once. But little by little, Yue Jian learned not to make other people's decisions for them. Tang Li also realized she'd grown used to having Yue Jian by her side.

That was when things started to go wrong.

Especially when Yue Jian realized she had fallen for Tang Li.

The official in charge of judging other people's fated bonds had fallen for someone she shouldn't have.

The System soon issued its verdict:

[Abnormal relationship.]

[Recommended action: retrieve her.]

Only after Yue Jian regained her memories did she remember that she had done this in a previous life, too.

Back then, she had refused to cut the bond for Tang Li, and as a result, she lost her position as an official and all her memories.

This time, the System still refused to accept them.

Yue Jian knew what it meant to go any further. Tang Li saw it more simply: they were the ones living their lives, so why should a red string get to decide for them?

Later, the red string really did disappear.

Yue Jian said, "There won't be a string to guide us anymore."

Tang Li looked at her. "Then we'll choose for ourselves."

I choose you today. When I wake up tomorrow, I'll choose you again.

Theme: Fate can bring people together, but the relationship they build is always determined by their own free choices.