They're Both Replacements, So Why Take It Seriously?

[Next book: Little One, Don't Cross the Line]

(Double stand-ins! The male lead's one true love is his unattainable dream girl, while the second male lead gets his just desserts! Sweet romance and satisfying payback, with a devoted couple and no angst! A truly powerful heroine!)

Everyone knows two things: Pei Junyu, CEO of the Pei Group, has an unattainable dream girl he loves, and Yuan Xi, a rising young actress in the entertainment industry, has been fawning over Pei Junyu for five whole years.

At first, nobody thought the relationship would work out. They figured Yuan Xi was either a gold digger hoping to marry into a wealthy family or a woman trying to use the Pei Group to become a top-tier star. She was completely out of Pei Junyu's league, and there was no way he could ever fall for her.

But as time went on, Yuan Xi remained modest and well-behaved in show business. She didn't seek fame or status. No matter how cold and heartless Pei Junyu was to her, or how badly he treated her, she bore it all without complaint and took meticulous care of him.

Only then did everyone understand: Yuan Xi didn't want Pei Junyu's money or power. She truly loved him more than life itself!

Even Pei Junyu believed that was true.

But to him, Yuan Xi was nothing but a stand-in. No matter how much she loved him, it meant nothing.

Just as everyone began to change their minds and went from disapproving of the relationship to supporting Yuan Xi and feeling sorry for her, she cut off all ties with Pei Junyu without a second thought!

Everyone thought Yuan Xi was foolish, and envied Pei Junyu for having someone who loved him so much.

But who knew that Yuan Xi never cared about winning Pei Junyu's love? She had stayed by his side only because she wanted to look at that face.

Pei Junyu treated her as a stand-in, but wasn't she doing the same to him?

Until...

The person who truly lived in her heart, the person she thought had died, appeared before her once more.

Everything changed!

During the five years Yuan Xi spent by Pei Junyu's side, outsiders thought of her as gentle, sweet, and unassuming.

After she left him, outsiders saw her as brilliant, athletic, and astonishingly formidable: a cunning, mischievous, devastatingly charming devil of a woman!

Everyone: What the heck?! How could this devil be the lovesick fool who fawned over President Pei for five years?! Pei Junyu must have been blind not to love Yuan Xi!

Yuan Xi had been gentle for five years because Pei Junyu liked women like that, so she had pretended to be one.

When she shed her fragile disguise, her brilliance blazed for all to see. Nothing in the world could dim her dazzling light!

Once the once little-known Yuan Xi showed her true colors, she swiftly became a sensation in show business!

Back then, whenever people mentioned Yuan Xi, the first thing they thought of was her relationship with Pei Junyu. Now, when they mentioned Yuan Xi...

She caught snakes with her bare hands on a wilderness survival show! She took down thugs she encountered on the street! Her acting was phenomenal, and she won award after award! She could do it all, from singing to composing music!

Everyone: Aaaah! She's beautiful and badass! Look at me, sis, look at me! Pei Junyu doesn't deserve you!

Later, as Yuan Xi's fame grew, her true identity gradually came to light...

Everyone was stunned: So she's rich in her own right! She would never have wanted Pei Junyu's money. She simply liked him, but he didn't love her back!

Just as everyone decided Pei Junyu was an ungrateful fool and began feeling sorry for Yuan Xi again...

Another earth-shattering piece of news sent everyone into a frenzy!

Yuan Xi's current boyfriend and fiance wasn't just the head of the top-tier Bai family. He also had a face remarkably similar to Pei Junyu's. And most importantly, Yuan Xi and President Bai were each other's first love!

Everyone was stunned again: Well, would you look at that! Pei Junyu was the stand-in all along!

After Bai Jin returned, Yuan Xi's eyes shone again. She was bold and dazzling, no longer pretending, and unstoppable!

Pei Junyu had never seen this side of her before. She was so captivating, just like the way he had felt when he fell for his dream girl. He couldn't look away.

But when he tried to turn back, he found that she was long gone. He wanted to win her back.

She had loved him so much. Surely it would be easy to get her back.

Only later did Pei Junyu realize that Yuan Xi hadn't just moved on. She had never been waiting for him in the first place.

The person in her heart had never been him.

[#We were both stand-ins, but who took whom seriously?] Mistaken-identity trope

★ All-around charmer and powerhouse actress × aloof, chaste beauty on a pedestal

★ They choose each other!

★ The leads have no romantic or intimate scenes before they come of age.

★★★ Please add my next book to your favorites:

Little One, Don't Cross the Line

(A dangerously obsessive, slightly sickly heroine × the cold head of the Ying family, ten years older, who treats her like a child. Devoted couple, sweet romance, no angst!)

When Yi Mian was sixteen, she became an orphan and was taken in by Ying Boye.

Yi Mian had always had some psychological issues. Her father rarely came home, and when he did, he treated her and her mother terribly. Only later did Yi Mian learn that her father was a narcotics officer who had been protecting them all along.

But her mother was still killed before her eyes in revenge by drug dealers.

After losing her only family, Ying Boye was the only person in the world who treated her well. A twisted possessiveness gradually took root in Yi Mian's heart.

She wanted to make this cold, elegant man hers.

At first, Ying Boye treated Yi Mian like a child, and he continued to do so even after she came of age.

No matter what she did.

Until one night, Yi Mian tampered with his drink...

Only then was Ying Boye forced to reconsider his relationship with her.

Everyone in their social circle knew that the cold and dangerous head of the Ying family, a man who never kept company with women, had a precious young girl living by his side.

Ever since he brought her home, he had indulged and doted on her in every way, raising her just like his own daughter.

As the girl grew up, she began to show her face in public, and she was unbelievably beautiful.

Many wealthy young men hoping to connect with the Ying family came calling to ask for her hand.

Ying Boye coldly drove all those pests away.

When Yi Mian found out, she deliberately teased him.