After Three Years as a Slave, the Entire Crown Prince's Household Kneels and Begs for My Forgiveness

My best friend and I transmigrated into a book together, and we were both bound to a System.

The System told me to win over the crazy, sickly Crown Prince, and told her to win over the cold, solitary general.

We worked diligently on our targets for three years, but the progress bars got stuck at 88% and wouldn't budge.

Me: I don't want to win him over. I just want to lie flat.

Best friend: Fake our deaths?

Me: Let's do it. We'll both disappear.

We used the points we'd painstakingly saved over the past few years to fake our deaths and escape to the countryside, where we started a carefree life raising crops and dogs, far from the world.

Two years later, someone showed up with portraits and captured me and my fishing best friend.

Seriously? Is fishing illegal now?

"I hear they've been looking for some kind of beloved's lookalike in the capital. We could sell this one to the Crown Prince's residence for a hundred taels."

"We could sell this one to the Great General's residence for two hundred taels."

Me and my best friend: ???

Why is she worth more than me?

After all this time apart, Ji Tianyang had gone even crazier.

He said he'd break my legs and bind me in chains, keeping me locked in a dark cellar.

But then he'd come to my bedside and cry while I was asleep.

I didn't understand. What was wrong with the Crown Prince?

My best friend had run into something strange too. She said Liu Hanshan planned to sever the tendons in her hands and feet, leaving her bedridden for life, unable to go anywhere and forced to rely on him.

Me: And then? Did he actually do it?

My best friend rolled her eyes. "Could you at least hope for something good for me?"

Liu Hanshan didn't do it. Not only did he spare her tendons, he even pressured her into professing her love.

I gazed up at the sky and sighed. "Babe, the System might be broken. Those two are definitely crazy about us."

Best friend: ...I think so too.