A gender-swapped version of Cold-Faced Laundry, where men and women switch roles in some classic Jinjiang tropes. A fast-paced anthology.
1. (Gender-swapped arranged-marriage trope) A self-made female warlord who diligently builds her territory vs. a last emperor who is reborn and diligently steals his younger brother's fiancee
The reborn Crown Prince Xiao returns to the day all the feudal lords come to seek a marriage alliance.
This time, he knows that his future sister-in-law, currently an unremarkable young woman, will bring peace to this chaotic age, while he will be imprisoned in a palace and spend the rest of his life there.
With his own wedding fast approaching, this time he chooses to persuade his younger brother to run away from his marriage.
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2. (Gender-swapped kept-lover trope) A strict, traditional female head of a prominent family vs. a beautiful, amnesiac, scheming male lead who refuses to be kept as a lover
Song Yu was sent to the Xu family of Jinling as a gift.
But he was neither docile like a gift nor willing to act like a kept lover.
On the eve of the Xu family head's wedding, he brought his child and collapsed, sickly, in front of her fiance.
He thought he could ruin the wedding, but the future head of the family proved remarkably magnanimous: "A little premarital indiscretion is nothing to take seriously."
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3. (Gender-swapped fake heiress trope) A female general, his childhood friend, who has been away for ten years vs. a gentle, nurturing fake "heiress" male lead
After the eldest son of the Yongning Marquis's household became embroiled in a scandal over a baby switched at birth twenty years ago, he repeatedly yielded to the younger brother who came later.
He hadn't chosen to take someone else's place. Fortunately, he didn't care about a false reputation, fame, wealth, or even his title. He could give it all back to his younger brother.
But when they asked him to give up his own fiancee, the usually elegant and composed eldest son fell silent for a long moment, then coughed up a mouthful of blood.
...More to be added as I write...
2025.2.11
Theme: A change in perspective can lead to a different life
