You'd Better Not Be Too Stunning

Don't Be Too Stunning A handsome rich playboy x a very domineering model student Blurb One: The younger girls describe Jiang He as a distant beauty, a top student, a gentleman, a clean-cut young man, a charming senior, and the perfect son-in-law in every mother's eyes. Ruan Xing calls Jiang He a scumbag. In a storage room deep inside the school at dusk, Jiang He pins Ruan Xing firmly against the corner wall. She recites the younger girls' opinions of him, word for word. He pulls off his model-student badge and curls his lips into a smile. "Your opinion is much more interesting." A lively little chapter in their youth, spent digging into each other's secrets. Theme: Study hard and keep improving. --Coming soon: Myriad Charms, click on the author's page to follow! Chu Xuan has been in the entertainment industry for three years and starred in five sweet romance dramas, none of which flopped. While everyone else treats sweet romances as stepping stones, Chu Xuan is perfectly content to stay in her comfort zone. Chu Xuan waves her hand and takes another role. Only afterward does she find out that the male lead is Jiang Tinghan! Not only is he a born actor, notorious for being difficult to work with, he's also widely acknowledged in the industry as an "unparalleled beauty." His nickname is "Beauty Jiang." -- Jiang Tinghan is a three-time Golden Award-winning actor, hailed as the new generation's leading man in arthouse films. But even more famous than that title is his reputation as a "beauty." Skin as fair as jade, red lips and pearly teeth, a figure like a tree of jade, and a pair of upturned, foxlike eyes. He's exactly what you'd picture when you hear "male fox spirit." On the first day of filming, they have a kissing scene. Chu Xuan grabs his clothes and kisses him wildly right in front of the camera. Actor Jiang coolly sneers, "You call that acting?" On the tenth day of filming, they have a hugging scene. Chu Xuan gets into character and rushes at him, but Actor Jiang just stands there, stunned. Thinking about everything that's happened over the past few days, Chu Xuan gets so furious she points at Jiang Tinghan and scolds him: "Do you even know how to act? What are you good for besides looking pretty?" -- Just when Chu Xuan thinks she's beaten the old master at his own game, an engagement arranged by their families suddenly drops into her lap, and her fiancé turns out to be Beauty Jiang. She has to act in the drama and in real life! This has the veteran actress, sweet-romance specialist Chu, at her wit's end! One night, Jiang Beauty pulls Chu Xuan onto his lap right in front of their elders. Chu Xuan freezes on the spot. The beauty smugly curls his lips. "You're so good at acting. Why can't you play my wife?" [You taught me how to act, and I'll teach you how to love.] Arthouse film star x sweet-romance veteran Coy, difficult beauty x clever, laid-back girl driven to despair by him Sweet romance / feel-good fiction / marriage before love / one-on-one romance / love-hate relationship Theme: