The Body Double's Guide to Turning the Tables

1.

Shi Xinghui transmigrates and becomes an orphan whose mother has just died suddenly. The upside is that she stands to inherit several buildings. The downside is that she has to marry her fiancee to claim the inheritance.

Her fiancee is named Wen Zhuo. Shi Xinghui expected a gentle older woman, but when they meet, she learns what it means to have an overwhelming air of widowhood.

The Wen Zhuo of rumor is peerlessly beautiful, aloof and heartless, with a distant gaze and no worldly desires. She's the jade sword immortal praised by everyone in the industry, and her crisp fight scenes are often used as teaching material at drama schools.

But when Shi Xinghui sees Wen Zhuo at her mother's funeral, the woman's eyes are bloodshot. Fiery red veins reveal the breakdown she normally hides from others. The cool, celestial goddess has become a crazed, obsessive woman. Ignoring everyone's attempts to stop her, she insists on holding up the coffin for a moment, greedily taking one last look at the woman she loves.

Everything points to Wen Zhuo being in love with Shi Xinghui's late mother, who looks almost exactly like her.

Thinking of the inheritance, Shi Xinghui enters Wen Zhuo's home on a rainy night. Wen Zhuo is surrounded by a cool fragrance, like fine wine aged for years, but her voice is indifferent and merciless. "Why wasn't it you who died?"

Shi Xinghui holds her temper and negotiates, asking what it would take for Wen Zhuo to agree to a sham marriage.

Wen Zhuo glances up at her casually, her tone playful. "Come on, amuse me."

The woman's gaze, filled with shards of ice, is clearly looking through her at someone else. Shi Xinghui understands. She steps forward, removes the armband from Wen Zhuo's sleeve, and tactfully asks, "What did my mother usually call you?"

"Xiao Jiu. The 'jiu' in drinking wine."

"All right, Xiao Jiu."

For the next two years, Shi Xinghui deliberately models herself on her mother: her clothes, her tone, her personality. Even when Wen Zhuo is aroused, she gives her everything she wants, her touch gentle and tender, as if she were something precious.

On the day she turns twenty, she finally gets her inheritance. Shi Xinghui takes out the divorce agreement she's prepared and reveals her sharp, perceptive side. "This game of playing a stand-in is over."

2.

On the first day after signing the divorce agreement, Wen Zhuo can't sleep.

She thinks she's only unsettled because Shi Xinghui was the one to ask for a divorce. After all, Shi Xinghui has always been the stand-in who came whenever she was called and left whenever she was dismissed. How dare she reject Wen Zhuo?

But the one-month cooling-off period for divorce is long enough for Wen Zhuo to understand. This anxiety comes from losing control, and the person losing control completely is herself.

Who says the prey can't turn the tables? Didn't Shi Xinghui do exactly that?

In this game of playing a stand-in, Wen Zhuo is thoroughly routed. She even casts aside her pride and goes to the set where Shi Xinghui is working, eyes red and wet as she pleads, "Can we not get divorced?"

Shi Xinghui furrows her brow, looking deeply wary. "Are you changing your mind again because you want my inheritance?"

"No. I'll give you half my assets. Just don't divorce me, okay?"

"No."

Shi Xinghui refuses without hesitation, her eyes full of resistance. "No amount of money will do."

So the other woman is already eager to cut ties with her.

Wen Zhuo smiles bitterly, only now realizing that each affectionate "Xiao Jiu" had been a countdown. Like a shooting star flashing past, it had never stopped for anyone.

Guide: 1. Straightforward, sharp younger top x proud, obsessive older bottom;

2. Ten-year age gap, same-sex marriage setting, marriage first, love later;

3. Pure lesbian enemies-to-lovers, from mutual hatred to falling hard;

4. Both are each other's first and only, one-on-one. Xiao Jiu has always loved Xiao Shi;

5. The top-chaser gets a fiery pursuit, and the stubborn bottom goes wild for love.

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Theme: See the essence beyond appearances