Who Says the Supporting Couple Can’t Turn the Tables!

[Blunt heiress x scheming, secretly smitten student council president]

Question: If you transmigrated into an old-school, melodramatic aristocratic school manga and became the villainess readers hate most, how would you change your image, going from a hated villainess to everyone’s beloved white moonlight?

A. Let them hate me. It won’t cost me a thing. I’ve transmigrated into the life of a rich and beautiful heiress. Isn’t it great to just lie flat?

B. Turn over a new leaf and become the protagonists’ relationship bodyguard, healing every character with love.

C: Change what? I’ll stick to the role and be evil to the end, tormenting everyone from the leads to the supporting cast. Hahaha!

Si Yan: Pick whichever you want, A, B, or C. They’re all pretty much the same.

Huili: Hmm...

Looking at the unlucky fellow beside her, who had also been forced to transmigrate into the manga after reading it.

Huili: (After a long think) I choose D!

Si Yan: ? Where did D come from?

Huili: I made it up. D is for “duo,” hometown friend. Let’s form a secondary couple! We’ll create so much chemistry that readers will go crazy shipping us. There’s no villain who can’t be redeemed. And if there is, it’s only because their ship wasn’t good enough!

Si Yan: ...?

Readers before they started promoting the secondary couple: [No redemption arc for the villainess. Just let her die, thanks.]

Readers after they started promoting the secondary couple: [Falling for this secondary couple was my destiny. I get it now.]

Huili stands with her hands on her hips, looking at him smugly. “See? The secondary couple turned the story upside down, everyone became beloved, and I got you too.”

Si Yan says nothing, simply accepts his fate.

*

At the start of the new term, the student council president swiftly announces a series of new school rules.

[No long hair for boys, no manicures for girls, no altering school uniform designs, and no bringing anything unrelated to studying to school. Most importantly...]

[Dating is strictly forbidden for anyone under eighteen.]

The stern-looking president concludes calmly, “As high school students, your top priority right now should be your studies, not romance.”

Dating?

The young ladies and gentlemen at this aristocratic academy have never heard of such a bizarre concept in their lives.

Everyone is unhappy, but no one dares defy the student council president. In short, the new rules are implemented.

Until one day, the list of students caught breaking the rules prominently features the president and Miss Huili. To top it off, someone discovers the president and the heiress secretly kissing in the school garden.

The whole school is in an uproar.

Everyone: = = President, you and Miss Huili...?

The president calmly adjusts his glasses. “People here can get married at eighteen. How is what Miss Huili and I are doing dating?”

A humanities genius who takes on the world x a science ace who’s barely alive

ENTJ x INTP, the evil purple people couple

A hot-tempered heiress and her scheming, secretly smitten, loyal knight. Both are top students but clueless about love, because exam-focused education never teaches you how to date.

Reader’s Guide:

1. An alternate-universe aristocratic school story set against the neon-lit backdrop of the 1980s bubble economy. It isn’t a tightly plotted story or a power fantasy with a strong female lead. There’s a lot of romance because the author loves writing about couples. The leads are strictly monogamous, but everyone loves the heroine, whether as a friend or a lover.

2. Both leads are over eighteen. They’re both sharp-tongued jokesters and pandas. They both transmigrated. The manga readers’ comments break the fourth wall, and the author’s headcanons are as high as the Himalayas.

3. The original manga is an old-school melodrama. The main couple is a playboy x Cinderella, while the leads of this story are the manga’s secondary couple, and the main couple will be broken up.

4. Although the title is The Secondary Couple Turns the Tables, may all the couples you ship in real life stay together forever and never have their tables turned~

In memory of the old-school shoujo manga that kept me company as I grew up.

Theme: Your heart is elsewhere, even when your body is in the enemy camp