Wensui Cooks Fish

Also known as: Is My Secret Crush's Goddess Actually an X Virtual Lover?, A Carefully Planned Seduction, He Loves Her to Bits, She Was Just Pretending, Pure and Innocent Campus Belle? Cyber Girlfriend!

First loves for both | Rich, handsome man x poor, beautiful woman | Obsessive ex-pursuer x runaway sweetheart

[One-Line Blurb]

Enemies to lovers. A melodramatic tale about a male lead who thinks he's playing the female lead, only to fall for her without realizing it, get mercilessly dumped, and chase after her overseas.

[Full Synopsis]

When he started college, Peng Jiayu developed a crush on his roommate, Yu He, and his handsome face.

Unfortunately, Yu He was a straight guy through and through, so the two of them were never going to work out.

Before long, Peng Jiayu noticed that his crush kept bringing up Sui Yao, the computer science department's campus belle.

Peng Jiayu scoffed. What was so great about her? Pretty? There were plenty of pretty girls at school.

Smart? The computer science department was full of top students. It wasn't as if she was the only one.

But Yu He liked her anyway, and was always looking for chances to talk to her.

In the second semester of their sophomore year, Yu He finally worked up the nerve to confess.

...And got rejected.

Peng Jiayu was secretly pleased, but also a little annoyed. Yu He was so great! How could she not like him?

He was jealous of her gender and furious at her vanity. Beneath that plain appearance, she was actually an online girlfriend who posted leg pictures on X!

"Campus goddess? Pure and innocent department belle? Hah, what an act."

On impulse, he became a sleazy "abs guy" and tried to seduce her with tips and flirtatious messages, hoping to make her stay away from Yu He for good.

But he never expected their online romance to catch fire. His scheme turned into genuine feelings, and he fell for this sweet and sultry "baby"...

Peng Jiayu grinned foolishly. Sui Yao? She's perfect in every way. She's pretty, smart, and hardworking, and she works part-time at a bubble tea shop during school breaks to support herself. She's the cutest girl in the world.

Later came their first in-person meeting after dating online, a sweet romance, and living together after graduation.

But he never expected her to leave a breakup letter and run away without looking back!

Peng Jiayu had just gotten home after an exhausting day of his internship: ⊙o⊙! Excuse me, where's my whole wife?

...Alone in the empty apartment, his heart shattered into pieces.

She was his cyber puppy,

but he was her pet.

She only lured tips out of him to save up for her dream of studying abroad for a master's degree.

"She always smiles, harmless and sweet, but she knows full well you're just one fish in her pond."

"You only see her quietly treating you well, never realizing she's slowly boiling you alive."

A sweet and well-behaved girlfriend when they're together, but secretly unleashes a devastating move with every word she says, leaving her partner with no HP. A tough woman beneath a gentle exterior.

VS

A self-important man who uses every trick to keep up his secret identity and fool her, only to fall hard, get reeled in, and end up with a pouty fish face. A slow-burning, devoted male lead.

Theme: Knowledge changes your destiny.