After My Archrival and I Both Got the Wrong Script

The following is the blurb for the upcoming story Will You Be My Number N+1? Skip it if it's not your thing:

A proud, willful heiress x a sweet-looking but scheming man

Jiang Xu met Shen Shiheng at a matchmaking dinner arranged by their parents. In a perfectly tailored suit, he was refined and distinguished, as serene as a pine-scented breeze beneath the moon.

The Shen family's company was on the brink of bankruptcy, and they urgently needed a marriage alliance to save the family's fortunes.

Jiang Xu simply treated him like a pretty ornament the family had acquired. She signed a prenuptial agreement with him, and they began a marriage in name only. After the wedding, she continued visiting the male models numbered one through N on her phone, living it up outside the home, while Shen Shiheng played the part of a dutiful husband. They had nothing to do with each other.

A few months later, Jiang Xu unexpectedly saw a news story about Shen Shiheng ringing the bell at Nasdaq with his company. Unable to believe it, she pressed her parents for answers and finally learned that it hadn't been the Shen family facing bankruptcy. It had been the Jiang family.

Jiang Xu returned home in a daze. Shen Shiheng was in the kitchen making the bird's nest and milk dessert she always drank before bed. His beautiful eyes fixed intently on her, and he looked a little surprised that she had come home so early.

Burdened with the responsibility of rebuilding the Jiang family, Jiang Xu steeled herself and approached him, hoping to say something flattering. Instead, she blurted out, "I think you're better-looking than the guys on my phone. How about becoming my Number N+1?"

Half an hour later, the air in the room was thick with desire. Shen Shiheng abandoned his usual restraint, biting her lip and silencing her ragged gasps. "You can't have me as Number N+1, but we can be a proper married couple."

From then on, Jiang Xu no longer had time to contact the men on her phone. Instead, she was kept busy every night by the Number N+1 at home. Shen Shiheng always seemed like a dutiful man who washed his hands and made her meals, but behind closed doors he tempted her into things that couldn't be described.

One day, she unexpectedly learned that Shen Shiheng had agreed to help the Jiang family from the start, and had forbidden her parents from telling her the truth, all to get her to agree to the marriage. While she was wondering why he had gone to so much trouble, a friend happened to visit. She casually introduced him: "We got married after knowing each other for five days."

Shen Shiheng, who hadn't said a word until then, suddenly replied in a calm voice, "No. Nine years and five days."

This story's blurb:

Radiant little princess x a self-disciplined, impeccably mannered nobleman

One-line synopsis: Her aloof rival goes mad with love and becomes unstoppable once they get intimate

Gu Zhen transmigrates into a novel as a villainous princess. Her nemesis is Shen Shutong, a nobleman's son as cool and self-possessed as moonlight, with the grace of an orchid and the poise of a jade tree.

As enemies, the two would gladly stab each other in the back, but a bug in the System causes their missions to be mixed up.

One night, Shen Shutong dreams that someone tells him his next task is to do everything in his power to cherish and protect Gu Zhen. Otherwise, he will be punished.

But he refuses to believe it.

Then one day, Gu Zhen is being punished right in front of him. Though he had been indifferent just a moment earlier, he suddenly spits blood.

He wipes the blood from his lips and raises a hand, showing no mercy. "Keep going."

The next moment, blood slowly trickles from the corner of his mouth again.

Gu Zhen: ?

Having learned his lesson, he swallows his disgust and does his utmost to appease Gu Zhen without letting on.

In public, they trade barbs without restraint. In private, he humbles himself, coaxing her and admitting he was wrong.

Everyone remains completely in the dark.

After a banquet one night, Gu Zhen gets drunk. Her hair is disheveled, her hairpin askew, and her gaze unfocused as she drags him somewhere secluded. In the end, she accidentally kisses him. The young man, usually as cold as autumn frost, doesn't push her away. Instead, he patiently lets her do as she pleases.

Everyone fears the two will quarrel once they get somewhere private. They rush to find them, hearts pounding, only to see Shen Shutong, who has always despised the Ninth Princess, quietly deepen the kiss in the darkness while their clothes are in disarray.

Everyone is dumbfounded. "So that's what they meant by a quarrel..."

Gu Zhen always believes Shen Shutong's patience and attempts to please her are all because of the System's mission. Then one day, she pretends to be drunk again. Before she can do anything, he grabs her by the waist and kisses her.

Shen Shutong used to despise Gu Zhen more than anyone. But after that strange dream, he had no choice but to suppress the hatred raging inside him and secretly play the part of someone who cared for and indulged her.

But as he kept up the act, he realized she wasn't so annoying after all.

And as he kept up the act, he couldn't help but... turn the pretense into reality.

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