Name: A Guide to Toying with the Untouchable Beauty
Author: As True as Jade

Synopsis

(An innocent yet dark, aloof beauty x a teasing woman)

After transmigrating, Ye Dongzhi was forced to win over the man who was her nominal adopted son. Unfortunately, he was a highly disciplined and proper gentleman.

If she failed the mission, she'd be erased on the spot.

So she racked her brains and tried every trick she could think of.

At first, the missions seemed normal enough. But little by little, things started going in a very wrong direction...

[Say the following line to your target: You taste so sweet!]

Ye Dongzhi nervously completed the mission, only to get a scornful snort in response.

Next: [Lick your target's finger and tell him, "You are exceptionally gifted in a certain area."]

She nervously said what she was told. The other person was so embarrassed and furious that he could take it no longer. "Shut up!"

Later: [Target's anger level is rising. Host must immediately kiss him to calm him down!]

Facing his darkening expression, she leaned in and gave him a quick kiss. Then, to her surprise, she realized he looked ready to kill her, but why was he trembling all over, his face flushed red?

Ye Dongzhi smugly declared that she had the situation under control, but the System told her: Target's affection level is too low. Mission failed.

Her: "??"

Then the System gave her another option: switch targets.

*

As a model of decorum among Kyoto's noble families, Wu Lian had been mature and composed since childhood, and despised people who behaved without restraint.

At first, he disliked her irreverent words and actions, and her complete disregard for the rules. He had reprimanded her more than once.

But as time passed, the flippant words she spoke gradually became whispers that made his face burn and his ears ring whenever they reached him.

When Wu Lian realized something was wrong with him, he decided he ought to cut off this ill-fated relationship himself. But before he could carry out his plan, everything fell apart on one unspeakable night.

After that, there was no turning back.

For Wu Lian, it was his fate to cast aside the rules he had always upheld for her, and willingly bear the disgrace of an illicit relationship.

Yet by the time he was certain of his feelings, she already had a new lover.

Unable to bear it, he repeatedly made things difficult for her, only to get an irritated reply:

"Enough. I'll tell you the truth: I've never liked you."

Only then did he finally understand that she had never meant any of it. Everything that had happened was just her playing with him.

*

Later, in the dark of night, he kissed her again and again, her body marked all over, while tears and resentment fell upon her.

"If you lied to me, then just keep lying to me forever. Why won't you have me?"

(The blurb has been screen-recorded and saved.)

Reader's guide:

1. A romance-focused story, with a very small amount of elementary-school-level political scheming.

2. The heroine and the hero's adoptive father have no actual marriage arrangement. The hero's adoptive father is the only one deceiving the heroine, while the hero takes it seriously and often uses it to admonish himself after indulging in pleasure.

3. The blurb differs from the main text. The main text takes precedence.

---Next up: Breaking Off My Engagement with the Brooding Heir---

Three years ago, Xie Zeyu had an accident and fell in love with the person who saved his life. But the woman he loved was already married, and he couldn't let go of his feelings. Though he had a fiancee, he kept putting off the wedding.

Xue Suning was that fiancee.

After Xue's father was imprisoned for a crime and her mother became seriously ill and bedridden, the family had no choice but to hope she could persuade Xie Zeyu to honor their engagement, so the Xie family might help free her father and pay for her mother's treatment.

For this reason, Suning did everything she could to please her wealthy, privileged fiance, watching her every step.

Though Xie Zeyu treated her politely enough, she knew he didn't like her. He saw her as a burden he couldn't shake off.

One day, she happened to see the woman he loved crying to him. "Xie Lang, he divorced me. I have nowhere else to go..."

As she watched the two of them rekindle their old romance, Suning's heart sank.

Not long afterward, her father died and her mother passed away. Completely disheartened, Suning returned the betrothal papers and left the Xie residence.

*

The Xie family was immensely powerful, and as the eldest legitimate son, Xie Zeyu had never wanted for anything.

The woman who had married someone else, the one who saved his life, was the first obsession of his life.

As for his timid, lowly fiancee, he had never given her a second glance.

She was just another vulgar woman chasing power. He could see through her motives at a glance.

Yet whenever she looked at him with those eyes full of spring water, all dejected, he felt a little sympathy and patiently comforted her.

"All right, stop crying. I'll do as you ask."

Later, when the woman who had saved his life came to his door, using her kindness to demand favors, he paid her a large sum to send her away. To his surprise, he felt not the slightest reluctance.

Xie Zeyu understood that Suning now held a place in his heart. She was gentle and sensible, and would make a good wife.

He decided that when he returned to the capital, he would agree to marry her.

But all that awaited him was a letter breaking off the engagement. The woman who had once fussed over him and asked after his health was nowhere to be found.

*

Suning returned to her ancestral home and made do with the small fortune her family had left behind.

A matchmaker saw that she was beautiful and clever, and found her a candidate who had passed the provincial examination.

He was handsome, gentle, and considerate. She was satisfied with him, and they settled on a wedding date.

But on their wedding night, the man who lifted her veil was Xie Zeyu, dressed in wedding robes.

His mild, well-mannered facade fell away. He pressed against her ear like a snake and sneered:

"You already have a fiance. So why, then, do you still want to marry someone else?"

Only later did Xie Zeyu understand that Xue Suning was the obsession he could never let go of.

(A brooding man x an earnest woman)

Reader's guide:

1. Both leads are virgins.

2. The hero never loved the person who saved his life. From beginning to end, his heart and body belong only to the heroine.