I say green tea persona, because it's a BL story after all and the "green tea" girl is a boy.
Also at the moment of me typing this, this story is fully available on JJ for free, but I bet it won't be long before it'll be locked after it's completion.
Another point is the novel is officially not over, but we're moving towards it and basically overcame all the main points of the story.
Summary: An Yu, successful in his career, but a lonely person in life transmigrates to become a tragic unloved son of the An family. He promises to avenge the original An Yu, one who loved his family but whose feelings were never resciprocated, who had no idea why his life was like this.
Forced to marry the Xing family in the plot, now An Yu uses this marriage to his advances. Because he knows the plot, he also knows the secrets, the only thing left is to play along and release a bit of the tea scent. After all he is the premium green tea.
#1vs1, smart protag, found family, wealthy families, a bit of entertainment, fast-paced story
The story basically covers how An Yu who transmigartes, follows along with some of the plot, but also changes his own fate and avenges the original An Yu. Since he knows the secrets of the An family and his own.
From "forced" marriage to a loving relationship, from being a no one to becoming the center of attention. Although he is green tea premium, it does not mean he is a hypocritical fellow like his brothers, especially original shou of the story - An Shi. He weaved the lie within a truth. And he is quite sincere towards people he cares about.
This is actually a very upbeat story that almost gallops through the main plot. I feel like no part of it used too much space, a lot of things were "solved" in just few chapters and each instance was treated the same way. This is why the story feels very fast-paced and easy to read (no angst).
For a change our main protagonist An Yu does not berates the original An Yu, I see it often when authors inadvertantly compares the OG characters to their protagonists as if there is a need to show who's better (especially how their protagonists are a hundred time better and won't do all those silly things), but An Yu totally realizes the inability of OG An Yu to act, that he was basically cornered and had no power over his situation. He was abused since childhood and thus developed a weak personality that could be pushed around, but because he believed in his family he did as he was told to, not realizing that it will lead him to his doom.
The story starts a bit before the forced marriage. An Yu plays along at first, getting more and more out of An family. Not to mention some of it is a payback, while the An family can't do anything to him. Because original An Yu was framed for stealing the marriage, this time An Yu did not bother to clear things up even if he had proof, because he never planned to stick around.
Xing Zhan, ML, at first did not like An Yu and had the worst impression of him, but he was a person of dignity and did not make a scene at their marriage, later due to An Yu's influence of the tea persona he slowly figured out some inner workings of the An family and how An Yu was treated (I mean, the guy was basically malnourished, which was claimed to be "for his own good", he was treated so poorly to make him go through hardships and understand how those below him live, when he lived below the lowest point), so even if An Yu "stole" the marriage, Xing Zhan forgave him for it while finding that it was justified.
The marriage was actually for Xing Zhan to make his sick grandfather not worry about Xing Zhan leading a lonely life, so he chose An Shi from the An family, he didn't really care who, it was Mrs Xing's decision. An Shi had a perfect image on the outside, but others did not know how fake it was. Like Xing mother saw him saving a kitten (if I'm not wrong), but she did not know An Shi abused the kitten and it was An Yu who saved it. Xing Zhan thought it was strange, but he saw the cat, cat was basically skin and bones and you mean to tell An Shi cared for it while boasting that An Yu stole it. An Yu was also skin and bones, his health was quite poor, this is what made Xing Zhan think twice. Thank Gd ML is not oblivious type. Like what son of a wealthy family is malnourished? And some other details that played in An Yu's favor also became a part of his ever-changing opinion.
But nothing stays secret. Xing family soon found out about the stolen marriage. Once again, An Yu followed along with all demands, all prenuptial agreements, private agreements with the family and even Xing Zhan's friend. Because he knew he never planned to stick around when the marriage will end. He planned to take compensation and do his own thing. The Xing family was disappointed at first knowing the "truth". But with time their perception of An Yu changed and they still liked him, forgiving the incident and even regretting their rash decision. An Yu never really cared for the blame, because he totally could understand the idea of protecting your closest people from harm. If anything he envied Xing Zhan.
This story isn't about how An Yu is a total hypocrate and uses everything. It's more like truth weaved with a bit of lie as I said. Although he followed along for the health of Xing grandpa, he still liked the old man and cared for him with his heart, even when grandpa made him sign papers to leave Xing family with nothing. Mrs Xing also was baffled that An Yu "stole" the marriage, but later figured that An Yu wasn't like that and he even saved her life in the story.
But of course Xing Zhan is the one who came to regret his attitude the most. How could he have known that An Yu will become the love of his life? It's a bit cliche that he changed for An Yu, worked less, also became the second owner of the cat, cared for An Yu's health, even learned to cook.
Their quiet life made him feel home.
As for the An family, they slowly got their comeuppance. Even An Shi, whose image of the perfect boy was ruined (mainly by his own hands too). Maybe he was the type of assertive main character in the original story, but honestly the guy is rotten like his entire family.
The og plot described that An Shi pushed the marriage because he fell for another person. So not to seem scheming or ungrateful he derrived such a plot with his family. They also spread the word, which ruined An Yu's rep. But in this timeline An Yu befriended Zong Xiuyuan (og male lead) beforehand and they became close. Xiuyuan also was surprised to find that with time he felt how hypocritical and manipulative the moves of An Shi were.
Even the cat became the living proof of An Shi's hypocricy. After all he took it for Xiuyuan to seem benevolent, but never cared for the cat, only remembered when it was needed.
While og An Yu treated the cat like an only family and an emotional support.
The cat became like a mascot of the story, it doesn't play the biggest role, but some things came to light because of it.
So main plotlines were dealing with the An family and development of feelings between An Yu and Xing Zhan.
In regards to their feelings, actually An Yu proposed to be more open about it, especially physically, which Xing Zhan refused (regretted it a hundred time later). But An Yu really did not want to stick around with this marriage, only because he did not want to be bound. In his previous life he saw too much in the entertainment world, where no relationship was pure love. It came to Xing Zhan to win An Yu slowly over again. And since they spent so much time together and truly became family, it was easier for him to accept Xing Zhan among anyone else.
Surely, the story is not over, but basically it dealt with everything it planned to deal at the beginning. I'm only waiting for the concusion.
It was one if not only novel that I was reading. I've been too much into manhwa lately.
RATE: 4,5/5.
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