After Becoming the Empress, I Left the Hero and Heroine Bewildered

College senior Wei Yunlan wakes up to find herself transmigrated into the role of an NPC empress in a sweet historical romance.

System: “Lie flat until the ending, and you can go home.”

Wei Yunlan: “No problem. I’m an expert at lying flat in the harem!”

But then the original heroine, Du Xiaoshuang, shows up with the hero, Long Tianlong, and the two of them wreak havoc in the harem

framing her for poisoning, stealing her palace attendants, and even daring to touch her favorite pastries!

While the other supporting characters are being tormented into tears, Wei Yunlan bites into her last osmanthus cake and snaps: “System, I quit this job. Let’s take them down!”

From then on, the leads’ nightmares begin:

Du Xiaoshuang’s carefully staged “chance encounters” always end with her tumbling into a mud pit in front of everyone;

Long Tianlong tries to play the hero and rescue the beauty, only to be swept into the sky by a sudden gale and land with age spots all over his face;

even the love letters they secretly pass back and forth “just happen” to end up in the Empress Dowager’s hands, their contents altered to read like a proclamation of rebellion.

Du Xiaoshuang breaks down: “Why does every scheme to trap someone end up trapping me?!”

Long Tianlong rages: “Who has my imperial body offended?!”

Watching the pair clutch their heads and wail, Wei Yunlan high-fives the System, the eunuchs, and the imperial consorts beside her, all holding “prank props.” “Keep it up!”

The System can rewind time anyway, so what’s there to fear?

A sweet romance? Not a chance.

If this pair of leads aren’t pranked into questioning their whole lives, then all those days of forced overtime will have been for nothing!

“You dared to cause trouble, so I’ll show you that even an NPC has a temper!”