[“System + inner thoughts + beauty + unscrupulous tactics + tangled relationships”]
Su Changning is the most beautiful woman in the capital, and her family background is second to none.
Her mother is the current emperor's eldest princess, and her father comes from a family of wealth and distinction, renowned for its literary and official heritage. He is also the Crown Prince's tutor.
Her parents are devoted to each other, her family is influential, and her elder brother holds a high government post. As the youngest daughter in the family, she is utterly spoiled.
But she was born frail and sickly. Master Huikong of Yunji Temple even foretold that she would not live to see her fifteenth birthday.
Su Changning doesn't believe in fate. She is destined to live a long life and be the envy of everyone!
As it happens, a thing calling itself the System tells her that she can survive by obtaining the life force of the person destined for her. Fine. There is nothing she can't get if she wants it.
Obtaining life force requires intimate contact. But what counts as intimate...?
So, to survive, Su Changning puts on a beautiful face and goes about deceiving and using people. She wears pretty dresses and has no intention of taking responsibility, speaking all sorts of insincere words in a soft, delicate voice. But her inner thoughts are unyielding: she says one thing to their faces and thinks another.
She never expected them to look at her with increasingly resentful eyes, as if she were a heartless cad. Could they hear her thoughts? But even if they can, so what?
You did it of your own free will. What does that have to do with me?
(The female lead just wants to live a healthy life. Her only principle is to love herself. She has a conscience, but not much, so don't expect her to feel guilty. She's a bit of a villainess, not a saint, and wears two faces.)
