A Hopeless Romantic's Guide to Fake Secret Crushes

Story blurb

Male lead:

Pei Nanyu accidentally finds Xu Zhiyi's diary about her secret crush. The photo on the cover is of him.

After learning that Xu Zhiyi has a crush on him, Pei Nanyu begins paying attention to her from time to time, searching his memories for anything about her.

The cake she couldn't give him before the college entrance exams, the notebook covered in photos of him, her reminder to wear a mask before the willows shed their fluff, and even her coming to work at his company.

Pei Nanyu matches the details of their interactions to the secret-crush novel he's reading, so he starts writing his own guide to being secretly admired.

Day 1: Xu Zhiyi runs her mouth to get my attention.

Day 2: Xu Zhiyi sneaks glances at me and reminisces about the old days with me.

Day N: I've seen through Xu Zhiyi's tricks. She's madly in love with me.

Female lead:

Her high school classmate has become her direct superior. On the very first day they reunite, she insults her boss. Xu Zhiyi thinks she's about to lose her job.

In high school, she couldn't beat him in exams. Now, at work, she can't come up with a proposal. That damn boss hasn't smiled at her since high school.

Xu Zhiyi notices that, at some point, things begin to take a turn.

Day 1: Pei Nanyu is a handsome, impulsive guy.

Day 2: Pei Nanyu is an icy, heartless moonlit prince.

Day N: I think I've fallen for Pei Nanyu.

Blurb 3:

Before she pursued Pei Nanyu, Xu Zhiyi thought: I think Pei Nanyu likes me.

After she wins him over, Xu Zhiyi discovers Pei Nanyu's diary about being secretly admired.

"Pei Nanyu, if you keep making up all this nonsense, I'll knock your head off."

Self-deluding, genuinely loves romance novels, rich young master x blunt, overthinking, lazy beauty with a sharp tongue

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New novel blurb:

After the Wicked Supporting Female Lead Awakens

Qin Wan has diligently enjoyed her life as a rich heiress for the first half of her life. Then, one day, she awakens and discovers that she's living in a novel.

Unfortunately, she's neither the heroine, as is common in novels about people who transmigrate into a book, nor an unrelated passerby. She's a wicked supporting character in a romance novel, a trope that's long since gone out of fashion.

In the original story, Qin Wan uses her family's wealth to lust after the male lead's good looks and schemes at every turn, causing plenty of trouble for the main couple.

In the end, she not only fails to get the male lead, but also ends up with her family ruined.

Thinking that if her family goes bankrupt, she won't be able to attend fashion shows around the world, buy whatever she wants, or casually spend tens of millions, Qin Wan bursts into tears.

Now that she's awakened, Qin Wan can control her feelings, so she doesn't have to cling to the male lead anymore.

The book says that after Qin Wan graduates from college, the Qin family plans to marry her into the Lu family. Qin Wan refuses, humiliates Lu Shiran in public, and even causes him to get into a car accident.

Lu Shiran dies young and unmarried, and the Lu family's assets, worth hundreds of millions, all go to an illegitimate son.

Qin Wan decides to go along with the arrangement this time and marry Lu Shiran.

But can someone explain why Qin Wan can control her thoughts but not her mouth and actions?

Qin Wan is out shopping with Lu Shiran when her feet seem to glue themselves to the ground. She grabs his sleeve, on the verge of tears. "Get ready."

Lu Shiran is utterly confused. "Get ready for what?"

Qin Wan lets out an almost imperceptible sigh, then declares with righteous conviction, "I'm going to make a scene."

Theme: Be direct when it comes to love.