My Archrival Is Even Better at Pretending to Be a White Lotus Than I Am

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*Modern romance coming soon: One of Me Beneath the Tree. Campus secret crush + rekindled love after a breakup. A radiant, healing dance blogger and a quiet, devoted comic artist. The project is already underway in my collection, please give it your approval, Your Majesty, orz

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[Sharp-tongued, tsundere little assassin & a masked fox who'll be his wife's dog]

[Sweet and lovey-dovey (X), dedicated to ruining each other's lives (√)]

He Wei has been raised as the crown prince's assassin since childhood. To solve the case of the perfumed powder murders, she disguises herself as Chang Jinghao, the third daughter of the prime minister, and sets out to catch the culprit.

In one moment, Pei Youzhi, an assistant minister at the Court of Judicial Review, treats her with great tenderness. The next, he arrests her for questioning, insisting righteously that she has no alibi.

He Wei is furious, but she's under his roof, and she's still wearing a secret identity.

So she nods! She cooperates wholeheartedly! She does her best to clear her name!

And then she discovers that his face isn't real either!

After finally luring him into an enemy trap, Pei Youzhi spits blood. "? Did you get the wrong person?"

He Wei smiles and denies it. "Get it straight. You're exactly who I was after."

Later, the mission fails. The prime minister's family is framed by someone else and slaughtered to the last person.

She knows it's a trap, but her life is at stake and so is the realm. She can just change her face and keep working.

By then, He Wei has entered the palace as a candidate for the imperial harem, where she runs into a famously useless prince.

He looks strikingly like the man she got killed in her trap.

After a while, He Wei finally can't help asking, "How did you recognize me?"

Shen Wu: "Because that look you give me when you want to stab me is unmistakable."

The seasonal maiden's sacrifice, ghostly shadows in the mist, encounters across ten mirrors.

The world I believed in crumbles bit by bit. When all that is unreal falls away, all I can see is you.

The spring is lovely now, with soft flowers and lush willows.

Shen Wu casually learns that He Wei's current face is her real one.

He tosses aside the memorial in his hand and tears up. "My wife..."

He Wei immediately holds her sword to his neck and says disdainfully, "Cut the act. Want to die again?"

|We are lovers who found solace in each other beneath a collapsing nest.

*The main cast:

Sinister, obsessive crown prince Shen Yun & frail, legitimate daughter of the prime minister Chang Jiaojiao (later: He Jianxing)

Innocent, kind-hearted princess Shen Xiao & restrained, devoted hostage prince from an enemy state Li Huaian

Charming and dangerous, only cares about money, hates every scumbag equally: Hua Yu

Can fight like a champion, can still fight when the world falls apart, little mute: Chen Shi

Alive or dead, win or lose, watch these young souls soar with spirited ambition, break through the mist, and find the spring flowers.

The story of a group of people lured into a trap, working hard to find the exit only to discover that someone among them is the culprit, getting angry twice in a fit of rage, and taking down his no-good father along with him.

Reading Guide:

1. A dual-strong cast with a focus on growth. Every member of the main group has their own arc, with distinct character development. Happy ending.

2. Plot-driven, set in a very, very, very, very loose world (but it's pretty interesting :)

3. Not a typical mystery or palace-intrigue story. The initial case and the cases in the first few chapters are only the story's main thread. There isn't much detective work; once the palace storyline begins, there is little rivalry among women and no palace scheming.

4. The secondary couple officially appears after 100,000 characters.

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Here is the upcoming story, orz! One of Me Beneath the Tree

[Radiant, healing dance blogger & quiet, devoted comic artist]

First love for both | Reunion | From campus to the city | Chasing-the-wife-to-the-crematorium | Both strong

"Thank you for giving me you, and thank you for letting me have you."

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1. Ming Ran's girlish thoughts are an evil, ghostly plus version.

The simpler, the better.

When Xu Song transferred schools in their second year of high school, he immediately topped the "hottest people" list.

Rumors swirled about his long legs, narrow waist, and comic-book looks.

At first, Ming Ran just scoffed and felt nothing.

Until one lunch break.

She and her guy best friend and deskmate split up to get things done: she went back to the dorm to do laundry, while he went to buy them lunch.

A frantic, exhausting lunch break. Who could possibly have it worse than her?

The famous "hall-of-fame beef" he had worked so hard to get ended up scattered all over the ground.

All because a few people rushed over to look at Xu Song feeding a cat by a tree.

Her deskmate clutched his chest and staggered dramatically. "The beef! Ranran!"

Ranran stared at the beef. "*... ?"

From that moment on, Ming Ran declared one-sided war on Xu Song.

Between classes, she'd slip past him to get water and cut in line ahead of him.

If they ran into each other in the hall, she'd pretend to be frail and drop something so they could pick it up together.

She'd feed the cat before he could, stealing its affection.

Her deskmate: "Why do I get the feeling you're picking on an honest guy?"

Ming Ran: "=_= The beef that got scattered everywhere half a month ago has a question for you."

Her deskmate: "I think I've come up with a new way to get at him."

2.

Ming Ran has parents who absolutely forbid takeout.

As luck would have it, she also has a brother who's a menace in the kitchen, but that brother has a friend who's a wonder in the kitchen.

And that friend has a younger brother who's a little kitchen wonder.

Over winter break, Ming Ran's parents go on a group tour of the far northwest.

Ming Xi and Ming Ran are once again reduced to living like primitive humans.

Ming Ran: "You can't even make cucumber and egg? Are you kidding me?"

Ming Xi: "What's wrong with eggs and cucumber?"

Ming Ran: "Where's the solid egg? This whole pot is eggshells and egg ribbons."

Ming Xi wipes away tears. "It's my fault, my fault for not learning a few dishes from someone. My friend is great in every way, except he never comes home. His little brother's all alone. Sigh, my fault, my fault for not learning more from his little brother."

They stare at each other, eyes wide, their brain waves finally connecting.

Not long after, Ming Ran finally gets word that the other party has agreed to "work together."

She and her brother will provide the warmth of a home, and the other party will cook.

A mutually beneficial, fair, no-hidden-fees cohabitation arrangement.

On a day when light snow is falling, the doorbell rings.

Wearing an apron and holding a spatula, Ming Ran rushes to the door, bends over, and says, "Welcome, Kitchen God!"

Outside, there is silence.

When she looks up again, a face she knows better than anyone appears before her, backlit.

Xu Song meets her gaze, snow crystals still clinging to his hair.

He takes the spatula and says four breezy words as he steps inside.

"Thank you. You may rise."

3.

"At a reunion with mutual friends, the two of them get into a fight before entering the private room.

Ming Ran isn't ready to come clean, so she warns Xu Song again and again not to give himself away and to pretend they don't know each other.

They walk in one after the other, only to find that they've been seated next to each other.

They laugh it off and sit down. The people around them fall as silent as a room during a visit from the boss.

Someone kindly offers to switch seats with Ming Ran.

But just as she stands up, someone grabs her wrist. Looking down, she sees Xu Song gazing up at her with an innocent face as he asks, 'Aren't you going to leave me the key to your place first?'"

Excerpt from The Great Cover-Up Failure After Secretly Getting Back Together

|"The tree is your silhouette, with me imprinted beneath it."

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Theme: Love the soul far more than the body; everyone can be the protagonist