[1v2? Purely chaste romance + palace intrigue, a rebellious heroine, and a hero who loves being tortured]
Yan Xi was a miserable office worker whose career was going nowhere and who had just been dumped. All she did was touch a cute young guy's abs at a nightclub, yet somehow her soul transmigrated into the body of Xi Yan, ruler of Xizhao.
The original owner was arrogant and unruly, yet loved beautiful men. She traded a gold mine for an unfavored prince from another country, Xuan Yong, and kept him confined in the palace.
She threatened and imprisoned him. Xuan Yong hated her to the bone and repeatedly tried to drown himself in a lake.
One day, the villainess had a change of heart. She dismissed the guards watching him and even smiled at him. He sneered: She must have drunk so much lake water that it's gone to her head.
Girl, considering how gorgeous you are, I was nice to you, and you still aren't satisfied or grateful. You've got a persecution complex, don't you?
Xi Yan promptly set her sights on another pretty boy, every bit as stunning as the first: a refined gentleman with excellent cooking skills, practically tailor-made for her by the heavens.
She said, "I just love handsome men who can cook!"
The gorgeous one kept being rude to her, time and again. She put up with it.
The useless, idiotic System kept making mistakes and changing the missions over and over. She put up with that too.
Her good sister had the nerve to try to steal the man she liked. She could still put up with that.
The pretty boy and the adorable little sweetheart she doted on had a suspicious relationship, both of them cheating on her. She could just about bear that too.
The old crone behind the pretty boy joined forces with her good sister to launch a rebellion. The gorgeous one was in grave danger, each looking out for themselves. Captured and humiliated, Xi Yan was completely exhausted. She was done putting up with this. Fine, then. She plunged a knife into her own chest.
Is the ending so extreme? [Laughs awkwardly] [laughs awkwardly]