She is Zero, an S-rank agent for the quick transmigration bureau. Though capable of anything, she is always missing a piece of her memory, and a vague shadow haunts her mind. Her partner is the System, Tangdou. Then, during a space-time disturbance, their signal cuts out.
When she opens her eyes again, she is Ye Qingyan, the eldest daughter of the Ye family in City B, and she has spent twenty years pursuing Shen Yanli, heir to the Shen family. On the night of her engagement, Tangdou comes online, its voice choked with tears: [Host! This is a novel world! You’re the villainess, and the Shen family will destroy the Ye family!]
With her memories restored, Ye Qingyan drugs him, flees at dawn, calls off the engagement, and leaves for distant shores. With her all-around skills, she builds the Ye family’s overseas business into a thriving success, and raises a pair of twins, a boy and a girl, along the way.
Five years later, she returns to find the Ye family has become an industry giant. At the airport, Shen Yanli’s eyes are no longer cold and aloof. They are bloodshot and filled with obsession. “Why did you run?”
Tangdou cries out: [The male lead’s affection is at 99%! The plot’s gone off the rails!]
Ye Qingyan backs away with the children in her arms. She only has to complete her mission, then she’ll leave.
But she doesn’t know this is only the beginning.
In the worlds to come, whether on a Republican-era battlefield on nights filled with reports from spies, beside a rift where a seal is weakening in the cultivation world, or in the perilous depths of space as a starship faces off against the insect race, there will always be someone who looks at her with eyes like Shen Yanli’s, making his way through the crowd toward her.
Tangdou will curl up in her consciousness and say in a soft, sweet voice: [Host, that person followed you again! Could he have a System too?]
In each world, he may be on the opposing side, or have no memories at all, yet the moment he sees her, he is always struck by an inexplicable sense of familiarity. As she completes her missions, their repeated, eerily familiar gazes help her piece together the forgotten past of Zero.
