Diligent office worker versus yandere villain
Jiang Qiuyue stayed up until five in the morning to finish a novel she'd been chasing for three days. When she opened her eyes, she found herself inside the book as a nameless cannon-fodder character, created solely to bring the male and female leads closer. She had nearly become the yandere villain's “food.”
Faced with a situation where she was doomed from the start, she was bound to a System that ordered her to win over the big villain.
Jiang Qiuyue: ...
Knowing the plot, Jiang Qiuyue racked her brains to stay alive and began matching wits with the villain. Or rather, she embarked on a nerve-racking struggle to survive under his thumb.
When her progress reached 60%, she hit a wall. No matter what she tried, she couldn't raise his favorability, so she decided to give up. If she had to, she simply wouldn't go home.
The System panicked and suggested she switch to another target.
Jiang Qiuyue: ...You could've told me sooner.
Determined to get home, she promptly changed targets. On the night of her wedding to the puppet emperor, the big villain she couldn't win over pinned her beneath him, his cheek brushing hers as he murmured tenderly, “A Yue, you and he can only be husband and wife in name. I can help you get all the power, status, and wealth you want, as long as you don't leave me...”
The System displayed a progress rate of 90%. “Host, there was a problem with the last System update, so your progress was stuck at 60% with no change. Your actual progress had already reached 85%. Would you still like to switch targets?”
Jiang Qiuyue gave a humorless smile. “...What do you think?”
In the end, Jiang Qiuyue became the queen of Nanling, while the big villain gladly stepped behind the scenes for love, becoming the man behind the queen.
