Reborn, We Exposed Each Other's Secret Identities

Completed and going premium on May 29, starting from Chapter 20. Please don't read the chapters twice! Thank you, dear readers, for your help. I've finally, finally reached my goal for bookmarks

A cross-dressing heroine with a burning ambition x a cross-dressing hero who falls in love with his own scheme

Original title: "Reborn, My Nemesis Became My Troublemaking Wife"

In her previous life, Xue Zixiao was Jinling's most notorious wastrel: a regular at gambling dens, a prized guest at brothels, and the one who ran the century-old Xue family into the ground. When her uncle poisoned her, no one knew that beneath the debauched young master's silk robes was a woman's body.

Reborn at the age of twenty, she touched her Adam's apple and sneered. This time, everyone who'd bullied and deceived her would pay in blood.

To shut down her uncle's excuse that she needed to marry before pursuing a career, she casually found a poor girl and signed a contract with her, just to keep up appearances. But on their wedding night, a flash of cold steel appeared beneath the veil, and the bride pinned her to the bed. "I hear Young Master Xue is... especially good at bullying helpless women?"

Later, all of the capital heard that the Xue family's heir was henpecked, completely under the thumb of his "sweet wife." Only Xue Zixiao knew the truth: She hadn't married some poor girl. She'd married Pei Yu, the jade-faced devil who specialized in robbing the rich! Worse still, this thief was an even better actor than she was!

Pei Yu had a problem. While investigating his master's death twenty years ago, he had snuck into the Lin residence and been discovered. Desperate, he improvised, disguised himself as a bride in place of an ordinary woman, and married into the Xue family. But then he discovered...

"Her husband" insisted everyone leave when he bathed.

"Her husband" always had white bandages wrapped around his undershirt.

Worst of all... this wastrel was investigating the Lin family too!

When a drama queen meets an award-winning actor:

Xue Zixiao, tugging at his sash: "With skills like yours, my wife, why not teach your husband?"

Pei Yu, whispering in his ear: "Then, my husband, explain how you tie your chest binder first."

Beneath the warm red wedding candles, the two shadows abruptly sprang apart. In unison, they cried, "Are you a man or a woman?!"

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[Bonus Scenes]

1.

"Just cooperate and play my wife properly. Don't ask or look into what you shouldn't, and I'll find a way to deal with the Lin family. I'll also make sure to cure your poison. If you don't believe me, we can sign a contract."

Pei Yu thought it over carefully, then said, "Fine. You have to give me money every month."

"...Fine, ten taels a month." Xue Zixiao laughed in spite of himself and answered casually.

"No, that's too little. Fifty taels a month!" Pei Yu made an outrageous demand.

"Twenty taels." Xue Zixiao sighed helplessly.

"Forty taels. I won't take a copper less!" Pei Yu haggled.

"Dream on. Thirty taels, and not a copper more."

"...Then how about thirty-five?" Pei Yu ventured.

"...All right." Xue Zixiao rubbed his forehead and smiled wryly.

Xue Zixiao walked over to the desk and wrote out two identical contracts. Then he suddenly looked up and asked, "May I ask your full name, my wife?"

"Zhang San." Pei Yu rolled his eyes and snapped.

"..." Xue Zixiao paused, then burst out laughing. "I never imagined a female hero like you would have such an unusual name."

2.

Pei Yu, dressed as a woman: "Husband~ Let me help you out of your clothes."

Xue Zixiao, gritting his teeth: "...You're touching my chest binder."

Pei Yu, pretending innocence: "Oh? So my husband wears one too..."

Xue Zixiao, leaping up: "Shut up!"

3.

Bai Zizi rushed into Pei Yu's room. "Hey, my cousin went to the Yihong Brothel. Shall we catch him in the act?"

Pei Yu jumped up from the couch. "Let's go. Now. How dare he go to a brothel?"

In a private room at the Yihong Brothel.

"You little... Xue Zixiao, you actually came to a place like this behind my back?" Pei Yu put one hand on his hip and grabbed Xue Zixiao's ear with the other, glaring at him.

Bai Zizi leaned out from behind Pei Yu to join in. "Exactly! Cousin, what's wrong with Sister Yu and me? Why do you have to go looking for fun elsewhere?"

Pei Yu and Bai Zizi marched Xue Zixiao back to the residence, and from then on, word spread through the business world that the Xue family's heir was henpecked.

4.

Pei Yu had a problem lately: his "husband" was becoming more and more career-minded.

It made him look like a kept man!

Pei Yu, righteous and indignant: "I'd rather starve to death than live off your family's money."

Xue Zixiao, helpless, tossed him a token and slipped a pastry into his mouth.

Pei Yu, chewing: "Being kept is so nice!"

Next door, "Praying to Buddha," is currently updating. See the blurb below:

A venomous beauty x a cool, detached Buddhist monk. Who will be overcome by inner demons and consumed by obsession?

Before I met you, the world meant nothing. After I met you, the world was you.

What will happen when the young monk most likely to attain enlightenment meets a ruthless, heartless little demoness from Blood Moon Valley? Whose heart will the other unsettle, and whose path will the other disrupt?

In their first life, Xuankong witnessed Blood Moon's horrific death, which planted a demon in his heart. His obsession only grew stronger. He prayed before the Buddha for ten years, and when he awoke from a dream, he had returned to the moment before the tragedy.

That year, just before Blood Moon died, she looked at the young monk with blood all over his face and regretted dragging him into the secular world. So she fought desperately to return, hoping to let him fulfill his path of saving all living beings.

The two keep being reborn at different points in time, trapped in an endless cycle. But which of them is keeping the other captive?

1.

"Female devotee, please stop."

"It's you! How about you teach me how to stop, Master?" Blood Moon reached out and caressed Xuankong's face.

"Please show some restraint, devotee. Amitabha." Xuankong's face revealed no joy or sorrow. He brushed her hand aside, picked up the injured person, and strode away through the air.

Blood Moon was left behind, stamping her feet.

2.

"Master Xuankong, are you really going to side with that demoness and make an enemy of the entire martial world?"

"I know only that all living beings includes everyone, and Blood Moon is one of them. I will not yield." Nor can I. Xuankong gripped his staff, held one hand before his chest, and spoke with unshakable resolve.

Behind him, Blood Moon watched his back, her heart a jumble of emotions.

3.

"Xuankong, will you leave the monastic life and marry me?" Blood Moon crouched beside Xuankong, resting her chin in her hands as she asked.

"..."

"Hmph, I knew the Buddha was the only thing in your heart." Blood Moon turned and ran.

Xuankong opened his mouth, but in the end said nothing.

Xuankong knelt before the Buddha for seven days and seven nights.

Seven days later, Xuankong removed the prayer beads from around his neck, reverently placed them on the offering tray before the Buddha, and bowed three times. Then he stood and left the mountain without looking back.

This disciple is incapable of seeing through the beauty that is but a skeleton. I can only hope to pursue enlightenment in my next life.

Yue'er, I'm coming to marry you.

Theme: The rooster crows at the third watch, the cock at the fifth. This is the time for young men to study.