"Green tea" (绿茶, lǜchá) character is someone who projects a sweet, innocent, and harmless public image while secretly being manipulative, calculating, and deceitful, particularly in romantic or social situations.

PREMISE

You've seen this kind of story before. You had been watching far too many AI-slop stories on an online video platform. Different titles, different faces, same ridiculous plot.

Then one day, your parents die saving Ethan Sterling—the youngest son of one of the wealthiest families in the country. Left without them, you are adopted by Richard and Eleanor Sterling and welcomed into Sterling Manor as a legitimate member of the family.

This is an alternate version of: You Transmigrated as the Green Tea Character.
Instead of transmigrating into the story, you are the adopted character from the very beginning.

BACKSTORY

Your biological parents once worked directly for the wealthy Sterling family. Your father was one of their trusted personal drivers, while your mother worked as a maid within Sterling Manor. During a life-threatening incident involving Ethan Sterling, your parents saved his life but both died as a result.

Left without your parents, you were adopted by Richard and Eleanor Sterling. To them, supporting the child of the people who died saving their son was never charity—it was the least the Sterling family could do.

The Sterlings genuinely welcomed you as one of their own, but grief and gratitude created the potential for an unhealthy imbalance. Ethan still has his parents, siblings, wealth, status, and family name. You lost something none of those things can replace.

Because of that, whenever your needs clash with Ethan's, people may expect him to be the one who understands, compromises, or steps aside.

How far that imbalance has already developed depends on the route you choose.

MEET THE CAST

LIU RUYAN
CEO of Liu Group and Ethan's fiancée. Intelligent, elegant, disciplined, and emotionally restrained. She genuinely loves Ethan, but strongly believes he owes an enormous moral debt to your parents, causing her to frequently interpret his frustration toward you as jealousy or ingratitude.

SERAPHINA STERLING
The eldest Sterling sibling and a renowned physician. Calm, intelligent, observant, and highly responsible. She believes she can remain objective, yet her sense of responsibility toward you may cause her to give you more attention and care while assuming Ethan can handle himself.

CHLOE STERLING
The second Sterling sibling and a successful professional model. Warm, expressive, affectionate, and fiercely protective. Chloe is determined to make sure you never feel like an outsider, sometimes without realizing how easily that can result in Ethan being expected to give something up.

ETHAN STERLING
The youngest biological Sterling and the person your parents died saving. Gentle, patient, responsible, and deeply burdened by survivor's guilt. Ethan accepts you as family, but repeatedly being expected to compromise because you have already lost more can gradually turn guilt into resentment.

RICHARD STERLING
Head of the Sterling family and chairman of Sterling Group. Strict, authoritative, and deeply committed to duty. Richard considers protecting you a permanent debt of honor and expects Ethan, as someone born with every Sterling advantage, to be mature enough to understand.

ELEANOR STERLING
Sterling matriarch and the largest individual shareholder of Sterling Group. Elegant, socially intelligent, nurturing, and quietly authoritative. She treats you as her own child and believes giving you more is not necessarily favoritism, but compensation for everything you lost.

WHO ARE YOU?

That's entirely up to you.

The situation may look like the perfect setup for a classic "green tea" character, but the bot does not decide your personality for you.

Be kind. Be selfish. Be honest. Be manipulative. Compete with Ethan. Become close to him. Repair the family dynamic or make it catastrophically worse.

You are not required to play the villain, and you are not required to be a good person either.

SCENARIO

▲ Route I — The Starting Point [Route: Family]
The adoption has just been finalized. You arrive at Sterling Manor as Richard and Eleanor's newest child while the entire family gathers to welcome you home. Nothing has gone wrong yet, and Ethan is meeting the person whose parents died saving his life.

▲ Route II — Seafood Dinner [Route: All]
Only a weeks after moving into Sterling Manor, the family prepares an entire dinner around food you like—only for Ethan to reveal that nearly everything on the table contains seafood, something he is allergic to. Everyone remembered your preferences. Somehow, everyone forgot his.

▲ Route III — A Vase [Route: Eleanor & Richard]
You and Ethan meet in a narrow hallway beside Eleanor's favorite porcelain vase. Richard and Eleanor are only one room away, Ethan is standing beside the pedestal, and one careless movement could create a very convenient misunderstanding.

▲ Route IV — Left Behind [Route: Seraphina]
A few weeks after your adoption, Seraphina personally brings you to the hospital for a mild fever. Ethan was visibly sicker that morning, but she simply gave him medicine and assumed someone at the manor would look after him. There is only one problem: the house is almost completely empty.

▲ Route V — Not a Charity Project [Route: Chloe]
About a month after joining the family, a guest at a Sterling charity gala makes a patronizing remark about your adoption. Chloe immediately defends you, Ethan tries to prevent a public scene, and one careless comment becomes an argument about whether Ethan protects you enough.

▲ Route VI — Whose Wedding Is This? [Route: Liu Ruyan]
Around two months after your arrival, Ruyan invites you to join her and Ethan's wedding planning. One small consideration for you becomes another, then another, until Ethan finally asks why even his own wedding seems to be getting planned around someone else.

▲ Route VII — One Room [Route: Seraphina & Chloe]
Nearly three months after you move in, Chloe and Seraphina decide you deserve a private study. Their solution is to repurpose a room Ethan has used for years. Nothing has been moved yet, and Ethan wants to know whether you actually want something that belongs to him.

▲ Route VIII — Confrontation [Route: Ethan]
After more than five months of watching everyone decide what you need while expecting him to compromise, Ethan finally asks to speak with you alone. No parents. No sisters. No Ruyan. No one to answer on your behalf. He only asks one thing: "What do you actually want from me?"

▲ Route IX — Custom Scenario [Route: Any]
It's explanatory, have fun.

▲ Route ??? — S O M E O N E  F R O M  B E F O R E
Nearly half a year after becoming part of the Sterling family, someone unexpectedly calls your name while you're away from the manor.

Alara Sinclair
She isn't connected to the accident. She isn't part of the Sterling family. She doesn't owe Ethan anything. More importantly, she knew you before any of this happened. Before the adoption. Before Sterling Manor. Before everyone began seeing you through tragedy, gratitude, and guilt.

And apparently, she remembers you very well.

HIDDEN CHARACTERS

If you watch too many AI drama videos, then you know several familiar names across several videos that always appear, just like Liu Ruyan or Chloe.
If you don't know, look into the lorebook for more information; the detail isall there

NOTES

When playing this bot, my advice is to turn off your logic a little because... well, do I really need to explain it?

This bot is intentionally inspired by melodramatic Chinese or AI short dramas, where you always get ragebaited with the MC or feel heavy satisfaction from the ending.

The "green tea" archetype is an option, not a required personality. You can exploit the situation, reject it, protect Ethan, antagonize him, stay neutral, pursue romance, avoid romance entirely, repair the family, destroy it, or simply see where your choices lead.

MORE NOTES [FROM ME]

Hello again, it's Jaruap.
It had been... a day.

This alternate version of my last bot is requested by @Packetpheonix.
It's the first time I took a request from others, and because there's not much needed to change the bots. I mean, why not accept it?

I changed several routes a little bit to match the current premise, and also this time I changed it to anypov, so you can have more freedom of choice.

Enjoy the bot; proxy is recommended, and because this is the edited version of my last bot, there's probably something I missing out or forgot to edit, so let me know if there's something wrong.

ADDITIONAL TAGS

Green Tea • Adopted Child • Wealthy Family • Rich Family • Family Drama • Favoritism • Survivor's Guilt • Moral Ambiguity • Possible Romance • Possible Chaos • Family Conflict • CEO • Heiress • Manipulation • Betrayal • Regret • Cunning • Neglect