Her Moonlight and Her Perfect Substitute Are Both This Fox [GB]

The fox spirit Hong Yan strictly observes the spirit fox clan's rules. To avoid being captured and turned into medicine, he does everything he can to hide his true identity. That's why he is always evasive and tongue-tied around his human first love, creating a rift between them. Later, he listens to slander and believes she is an unscrupulous alchemist too. At their betrothal ceremony, he cruelly abandons her, breaking her heart.

Once he learns the truth, Hong Yan yearns for the affection they once shared and regrets what he did. He joins her selection of prospective partners, hoping to rekindle their love.

He had thought his A You was devoted to him. After three years apart, the male leads in her storybooks all seemed to be based on him, so she would surely be overjoyed to see him return in person. But instead, she coolly tells him, "Don't smile. When you smile, you don't look like him anymore."

How could this be? Had she failed to recognize him because, bound by the clan's rules, he had to hide his identity, change his voice, and conceal half his beauty?

Watching her be so warm with the other lookalikes, call them the pet names she'd used for him, give them the things she'd once given him, and say to them the sweet words she'd once said to him, he feels like he's going mad.

He's the real one! Even if he's playing his own lookalike, he's the best one. What right do these other men have to steal her affection?!

The most knowledge-hungry and dispassionate Prince Jing of the Fengzhao Dynasty, Yun Tianyou, only incorporated the heartbreak of her first love into several storybooks to earn money for her sister, the empress, to help disaster victims amid an empty treasury. But the enemy nation and former court faction mistook her for a lovesick fool. They carefully imitated the image of the idealized first love in her stories and sent a group of lookalikes to her selection.

What could she do? Of course she'd accept them all, pretend to be deeply in love with them, and turn them into real lovesick fools so she could win them over! There were plenty of handsome men. Wasn't her own kingdom more important?

But... one of those lookalikes was playing the part just a little too well. His strange way of thinking and those familiar, clear and foolish eyes always made her heart skip a beat.

And she hadn't even tried to win him over yet. How had he already become a lovesick fool? What kind of spy was this stupid?

Hmm... I'm not sure. I'll keep an eye on him.

[The heroine is the top, the heroine is the top. In body and mind. The female and male leads' combined POV ratio is about 2:1.]

[All three male leads are virgins. Every man around the heroine, even the errand boys and male wolves, must observe proper masculine conduct.]

[The heroine and male lead both have spiritual powers. The heroine is the strongest, while the male lead is a support type. The heroine has conflicts with a female supporting character due to clashing personalities and competing status, but there is no female rivalry over men.]

[Only women can give birth in this setting, but childbirth technology is advanced in this matriarchal world, and giving birth is painless and risk-free. The heroine has ambitions beyond the home and no interest in having children. There is a brief plot in which the male lead helps care for a child from the imperial clan in an attempt to win her favor.]

[The heroine is very self-serving, domineering, and mischievous, with a strong sadistic streak. Please don't read if that's not your thing.]

[The male lead's attempt to win her back won't fully succeed. He ruined his chances of becoming the primary consort himself. I just want to write about him being tormented by jealousy, trying to win himself over, washing underwear with a stony face for the rest of his life, all without a title or status.]

[No shipping wars. The theme is: "We're just putting on a show. You're not really mad, are you?" and "They're inns, but I'm home." ]

Theme: Beat tricks with sincerity