A Green Tea Will Never Be a Substitute

During her sophomore year of college, the untouchable business tycoon Shang Ji approached Yun Yao. He offered to take care of her debts, tuition, and spending money, on the condition that she become his girlfriend.

His family was pressuring him to get married, and he needed a girlfriend to help keep them off his back.

Yun Yao agreed right away.

She was his girlfriend for two years.

Shang Ji was handsome and wealthy, but sharp-tongued, mean, and difficult to deal with. He was cold toward her and never took her seriously. She was like a vase at home: he would admire her when he had time, but could go months without showing up when he was busy.

Yun Yao didn't mind. With great professionalism, she played the role of his clingy, adorable little girlfriend.

She had never understood why Shang Ji had chosen her in the first place.

It wasn't until after graduation that she heard he had a beloved first love he could never have, someone who looked seven-tenths like her.

Only then did she realize she was just a substitute.

And recently, his first love had returned to the country.

Yun Yao:

That jerk Shang Ji is already bad-tempered and impossible to appease, but he even treated me like a stand-in.

What kind of person does that?!

We're breaking up. Right now!

In a bright, immaculate office.

Yun Yao put on a pitiful expression. "Shang Ji, do you really think it's fun to deceive me?"

A substitute should know her place. Now that the real one was back, she should leave quietly without making a fuss.

But she'd spent two whole years keeping him happy. Before she ran off, she deserved some breakup money. Otherwise, it would be a loss.

Shang Ji rubbed his tired brow, his voice cold and thin. "What did I deceive you about?"

Yun Yao looked at him, nearly choking up. "You still want to lie to me? From the beginning to the end, you only ever treated me as a substitute. Now that your first love is back, you can finally dump me and be with her. You made me the ridiculous stepping-stone you used to prove your love for each other. You've been so cruel to me. Let's break up."

So cruel. Hurry up and give me my breakup money!

The office fell unnaturally silent.

"What are you making a fuss about now?" Shang Ji's brows furrowed. After a long silence, he almost laughed in exasperation. "First, you're the one who wants to break up with me. I'm not the one dumping you. Second, I'm busy. I don't have time to keep putting up with your unreasonable behavior. Third, I'm asking you, please stop making a scene, "

He paused for a second.

He closed his eyes, then said in a low voice:

"Didn't you like that pink diamond bracelet and the platinum bag at the auction? I'll buy them both for you."

#When you and my standards diverge, I abandon my standards and make my way to where you are#

#The powerful one gives in#

#Chasing his wife#

#Actually, it's a silly, sweet little romance#

Bright, flirtatious, mischievous gold-digger x scheming capitalist

Reader's guide:

1. Neither lead is a morally perfect character. The female lead is sweet-tongued but shameless, lazy, and money-loving. The male lead is mean, sharp-tongued, arrogant, controlling, and a total jerk at first.

2. There is no beloved first love.

3. The characters' values do not represent the author's values.

Screenshots taken on June 21, 2022.

Please add my upcoming story, The Little Maid, to your reading list!

Blurb:

Su Yun's mother works as a maid for the Liang family.

Thanks to the family's generosity, Su Yun is also allowed to live in the servants' quarters at the Liang home. They even let her attend the city's famous private high school alongside the Liang family's young master.

The students at this school all come from wealthy and influential families. Su Yun is the only exception.

Because her mother is the Liang family's maid, the other students look down on her and call her the little maid.

Liang Jingyan's little maid.

Liang Jingyan is the Liang family's only son, a born favorite of fortune, and handsome too. So even though he has a bad temper and acts like a bully, many girls at school adore him.

He hates it when people call Su Yun his little maid, so he gives her plenty of trouble.

But one day, his personality changes completely. He stops giving Su Yun a hard time and instead looks after her at every turn. He knows how hard she studies and that she wants to get into a good university. He even buys her piles of workbooks.

No one has ever cared about Su Yun like this before.

Su Yun is overjoyed.

For the first time, the shy girl falls in love, and she falls for this aloof young master.

Because she likes him, she becomes endlessly forgiving of Liang Jingyan and agrees to anything he asks.

Only after graduating from high school

Does Su Yun realize that he is a devil through and through.

Su Yun chokes back a sob. "So you've been lying to me all along..."

It turns out she was nothing but a contemptible wager in a bet he made with someone else.

Liang Jingyan smiles and looks her up and down with disdain. "You're so naive, sis. You really thought I could like a little maid like you?"

A rotten boy x an honest, sweet girl

Theme: Always be the one and only moon