After Mistaking My Ex-Husband for a Substitute

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A flirtatious, tsundere woman pretending to be a sweet, well-behaved girl x a mixed-race man who's gentle on the surface but dark underneath, with a nurturing streak

Reunion from the opening | 27 cm height difference | 3-year age gap | One-on-one romance

On the surface, Lin Xuan is a glamorous heiress to a corporate group, a talented artist, and the unattainable dream girl everyone envies.

But only she and her ex-husband, Chen Yan, know that "sweet, well-behaved girl" has never described her.

She has an almost obsessive fixation in one particular area. So when she senses the first stirrings of attraction, her initial impulse is to use the man in front of her and indulge herself.

A fleeting affair has no name, should not be remembered, and lets her imagine whatever she wants.

To her, he is just a plaything.

Whenever she finds comfort in his arms at her most vulnerable, she thinks of her ex-husband, Chen Yan.

Countless times, Lin Xuan has murmured to herself, "If only you were him."

The two men look so much alike.

The same mixed-race green eyes, the same beauty mark beneath the eye, even the same build.

She lets herself have her way and makes him play her ex-husband, as if they had never parted.

Until one day, he pins her against the wall, leaning over her. His voice by her ear is low and dark. "I heard you missed me."

"Missed me so much that you made me play my own replacement, is that it?"

Reader's Guide:

1. The heroine has an illness that sometimes makes her mistake the hero for someone else. The illness is a plot device, and its symptoms differ from those in real life. Please don't scrutinize the medical details.

2. They were each other's first sexual partners when they were together, but the heroine had a few puppy loves before him. They never went further than holding hands. He was her first love.

Neither of them had another relationship after their divorce.

For other spoiler warnings, see the author's note in Chapter One.

3. This is entirely fictional. Please don't draw comparisons to real life.

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Please add my upcoming novel, "Accumulated Feathers Sink a Boat [Pseudo-Siblings]," to your collection!

First sexual partners | 8-year age gap | A playful younger man who can bend and adapt x a self-restrained, proper older man

After her father dies, Lin Shuzhi is taken in by the Shen family and becomes Shen Yanzhou's sister in name only.

She sneaks into the garden to cry, but Shen Yanzhou, who always wears a stern expression, finds her.

He looks at her as if she were a rat crossing the street, so she instinctively assumes he'll throw her out.

She never expects him to sit silently in the garden all night with the book in his hands, keeping her company.

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Lin Shuzhi's entire adolescence can be summed up in five words: "In love with Shen Yanzhou."

But she gradually realizes she can't warm this stone, so she gives up rather than keep fighting a losing battle.

She sets her sights on someone else, writing him love letters in the middle of the night and doing all the things she used to do for Shen Yanzhou.

She never imagined Shen Yanzhou would notice.

Even less did she imagine that one day he would seize her by the nape and kiss her until she couldn't breathe, while she struggled and scratched several marks into his back.

He bends down and leaves a love bite on her neck, asking hoarsely, "When you looked me over and stole my first kiss, why didn't you think of running then?"

"Isn't it a little too late to run now?"

"Pseudo-siblings" Not related by blood "Never registered as members of the same household"

Theme: Just keep working hard, and fate will come in its own time