After the System Recognized Us: She Reconciled with Her Mad Husband

Si Yao is the battered matriarch in a novel about a husband who dotes on his concubine and neglects his wife. Her daily routine is to suffer abuse in the morning, secretly get her revenge in the afternoon, review the day and collect her System rewards in the evening, then call it a day. Until one day, she notices that her scumbag husband has a progress bar over his head identical to hers. Well, would you look at that! He’s in the same line of work! After they recognize each other as fellow coworkers, the two sympathize with one another, spend the whole night cursing the System, and reach an understanding: where there’s a policy, there’s a workaround. Keep things under wraps, pay lip service, and do the opposite! And so, the people in the prince’s manor notice that their prince seems to have changed. He scolds the princess consort, but keeps his eyes fixed on his concubine... Then, when he’s done scolding her, he affectionately takes the princess consort’s hand and leaves without even glancing at the concubine. The people of the capital scoff: Impossible. Everyone knows the prince is deeply in love with his concubine. That is, until the princess consort petitions for a divorce, and the prince, red-eyed, tears up the imperial decree in front of everyone. “You want to leave? No!” He leans in and kisses her: “A Yao, we’ve completed the mission. Now we can be a real married couple.” Si Yao: What happened to us having each other’s backs???