Lu Jiaojiao transmigrates into a business-war novel as a cannon-fodder heiress and gets bound to a “career comeback System.” Her mission is to defeat Gu Linyuan in the business world before he turns evil and destroys the Lu family.
But when she meets the real Gu Linyuan, a poor boy in a freshly laundered white shirt, pale and often coughing, who quietly endures bullying at school, her attitude toward the mission crumbles.
How could she bring herself to do that to him?
System: [Warning! Host, maintain your character and bully the male lead immediately!] She looks at the slender, pale boy beside the lectern. He is carefully smoothing the creases in an application form, a rare glimmer in his eyes. It will pay for his mother’s life-saving treatment next month.
“I refuse,” Lu Jiaojiao says in her mind.
The next second, the taste of rust rises in her throat. She staggers into the restroom and coughs bright-red blood into the sink.
[Warning: The first punishment is mild coughing of blood. Further disobedience will bring increasingly severe penalties.]
From that day on, Lu Jiaojiao leads a double life
Or so she thinks.
Until one rainy night, after disobeying the System for the third time, she coughs up blood and collapses in an alley. When she wakes, she finds herself in a cheap but clean rental room.
Gu Linyuan is wiping the blood from the corner of her mouth with a damp towel, his eyes as deep as a bottomless, frozen pool.
“Lu Jiaojiao,” he says, using her full name for the first time. “What kind of game are you playing?”
