Fringe Capybara

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cunning MC, cute ML, family, mental illness, food porn, side CPs

Tong Xuelu had the nickname Queen of Green Tea.

She was stunning in look, has a shapely body, and had a lot of suitors though she had never been in any serious relationships.

By the time she was done being a green tea and was about to be a nice person, her retribution had caught up to her!

She had transmigrated into a book. In the 70s where materialistic goods were rare and she was a poor soul who was the fake daughter of a wealthy family!

Per the story, she would be face slapped by the real daughter who was rebirthed, be married to an old man who had once been married, and finally die from domestic violence.

Tong XueLu: ......I'd rather continue to be a green tea.

Raise three bosses of the future and be a salted fish that all she had to do was to lay around and wait for things to be handed to her [check]

Cheat her way into a government-ran restaurant and had good food every day. [check]

Use her agility and wit to avoid being faceslapped by the real daughter. [check]

As far as an excellent green tea was concerned, she would be able to handle any scripts handed to her and still end up the winner.

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Wen Rugui, a physicist, was young, handsome and had his entire life ahead of him. He had, however, let his research distracted him from starting a family.

All of his bosses were eyeing him to become part of their family.

Until one day.

Wen Rugui brought a charming girl into his research facility and with love in his eyes. "This is my fiancee. We are here to report our upcoming matrimony."

His bosses: Shocked beyond words.

His female colleagues: All heart broken.

Tong XueLu: Sorry, all. My charm is but a passive skill.

I like it! Female hooligan in her heart MC x cute and innocent ML

So our Queen of Green Tea MC transmigrates to the 70s. She becomes the fake daughter who was switched with the reborn heroine. In the book, the original fought with the heroine and ended miserably, but after MC came, she weigh the pros and cons and decided to change the map XD Rather than fighting with the heroine, she decided to raise three future bosses instead (her younger sibs).

After becoming head of the family (the original parents died), MC solved the family problems, took care of her younger sibs, and got an easier and more prestigious(?) job and then step by step, improved her career, and when the college examination resumed, she went to University. She marries ML after graduation.

She meets ML early. Of course, she thinks he's handsome (yum!) but that's it. Meanwhile, ML has face blindness mostly for women, but he could clearly recognize MC so he became interested. They meet several times later, ML would also secretly help her behind the scenes. MC thinks he's cute for being so shy/innocent when she teases him. After ML clumsily chases her, she agrees.

On the 'crushing victories' of MC, she often makes enemies: the reborn heroine, the original's bloodsucking relatives, jealous colleagues, ML's admirers, envious schoolmates, enemies of ML's family etc. What I like is that she deals with them cleverly/differently depending on the situation: sometimes by green tea methods like pretending to cry or pretending to be innocent. Sometimes, its roundabout but the effect is painful and long-lasting (like with ML cousin), sometimes she deals with the root cause (destroy the backer so the enemy will have no backer). So yep~ I like it. I mean, if all she do is fake-cry then that would be boring =_=

On the mental illness tag, #SPOILER ML has schizophrenia, wherein he sees a younger version of himself and talks to it, like having an imaginary friend. But it never occurred to him why his 'friend' never grew up after so many years. ML's illness was caused by his mother abusing him when he was a child. (ML's face blindness is also from this). And it would be triggered if he saw a child being abused or his mother (his little friend' would show up). #SPOILER SPOILER He had a breakdown after his mother showed him his childhood pictures and he realized that his little friend was actually himself, then he noticed the inconsistencies and began to doubt what is 'real'. MC supported him all throughout when he was undergoing therapy. TRUE LOVE!!!

Overall, I like it. I like MC's personality, and her methods for dealing with the enemy. Also love love our cute ML!! (Awww...) The side CPs are also funny XD If there's anything unsatisfactory, maybe because she never got to the 'backstory'/reason why her enemies were targeting her. (I agree with MC that its not important though. lol) and also the hasty ending with the sudden timeskip.

Nearest reco is Bai Fumei in the 70's wherein the MC is more...aggressive/forward than the shy ML and My Husband with Scholar Syndrome, the ML is also a high IQ guy but slow in terms of romance but willing to learn ^^