A Guide to Pretending to Be a Green Tea Couple

My next book will be The Archrivals at the Imperial College (after archrivals swap bodies, they need increasingly intimate contact to switch back). Click the announcement below to go there~

You're putting on an act? What a coincidence, so am I.

Let's see who's the better actor!

Ruan Zhixia had lived a peaceful life until she turned eighteen, when she discovered she'd transmigrated into a book. In the story, her family was doomed to be executed and wiped out.

That wouldn't do. After much thought, she decided her family needed a powerful patron. She searched high and low, and finally set her sights on Xie Sheng, the eldest son of Commander Xie of Mobei.

After going to great lengths, she finally learned that Xie Sheng liked delicate, sickly young women.

Ruan Zhixia smiled slyly. Putting on an act was what she did best.

She pretended to be a delicate young woman, pressing a hand to her chest in Xie Sheng's presence every day. After marrying him, she took it even further, making the words "sickly" and "delicate" part of her very being.

Ruan Zhixia counted down the days, waiting for Xie Sheng to fall in love with her, for the Ruan family to be secure, and for the First Prince to be named Crown Prince. Then she could go back to being herself, divorce him, and regain her freedom!

Xie Sheng had always hated delicate young ladies. He came to the capital to celebrate the Emperor's birthday and fell in love at first sight with a woman.

After asking around, he learned that the young woman was the legitimate daughter of the Duke of Anguo's household, from a family of poetry and propriety. She was said to adore refined, well-read young gentlemen.

After the marriage was arranged, Xie Sheng was so delighted he couldn't sleep all night.

In the bitter cold of Mobei, Xie Sheng stood like a green bamboo in the snow, dressed all in white with a white fan in hand. His teeth chattering from the cold, he said, "Putting on an act is what I do best."

After acting for more than half a year, Xie Sheng couldn't take it anymore. He bought a huge pork knuckle from a street vendor and squatted in an alley to devour it. "Nothing beats eating meat by the mouthful!"

He turned his head and saw, a few steps away, a young woman holding a pork knuckle bigger than her face. She'd polished half her face with grease, and her eyes were happily squinted shut.

It was none other than his supposedly frail, delicate wife, who supposedly couldn't lift a finger.

#The days my husband and I outdid each other at acting after getting the wrong information#

#I have every look you like, but it's all an act#

#Should I expose my wife's secret identity? Asking online, urgent#

1v1 + both leads' first time + happy ending

A preview of my next book~ Coming next:

The Archrivals at the Imperial College

[Childhood friends with an arranged marriage, but also archrivals] [After swapping bodies, only increasingly intimate contact can change them back]

[Daily life studying at the Imperial College + a small ensemble cast]

Zhang Baoyi is the biological daughter of a princess, yet she's known throughout Wangjing for being poor. She can't afford charcoal in winter and can't even scrape together the customary gifts for the New Year. She'd love to drag her princess mother to the palace and throw a tantrum to beg for money.

Fortunately, she studies at the clan school, where tuition and meals are free, so she can get by.

Duan Zhang is Wangjing's most notorious rich playboy. His mother is the only daughter of a salt merchant, his father is a marquis, and he has more wealth than he can count. Since childhood, he's used pearls as marbles. He never studies and knows nothing but how to spend money.

The Princess's residence and the Marquis's estate are across the street from each other. Zhang Baoyi and Duan Zhang naturally grew up together and were even promised to each other as children. But as they grew up, they somehow became sworn enemies.

In spring, Zhang Baoyi got some bad news: she had to attend the Imperial College. Duan Zhang had to attend it too.

The worse news: Duan Zhang was in the same class as her, and even worse, he was sitting right beside her.

The two announced in public:

"Even if every other person in the world were dead, I still wouldn't marry you!!!"

One day, they woke up and stared at each other in shock.

The sworn enemies had actually swapped bodies!!!

Before Zhang Baoyi could even begin to panic, something even more outrageous happened:

They kissed.

Just once. Their lips touched, a fleeting kiss.

But strangely enough, their bodies switched back.

Before she could even celebrate, she woke up the next morning in Duan Zhang's bed again.

Duan Zhang's face, Duan Zhang's hands, Duan Zhang's infuriatingly fit body.

They looked at each other and silently cursed at the same time.

What could they do?

They just had to grit their teeth and kiss...

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