Bound to a Death-Seeking System, I Was Forced to Rule the Court

Overworked office drone Lin Qingruo dies of exhaustion and opens her eyes to find herself transmigrated into ancient times as an unfavored minor consort, a doomed cannon-fodder character. The good news: she’s bound to a “Fake Your Death and Go Home” System. If she can get herself killed, she’ll go home with a hundred million in prize money and retire! The bad news: the System’s reward mechanism seems seriously cursed!

To get home, she tries every way she can think of to get herself killed: she mouths off to the tyrant, kicks the favored consort, doses the Empress Dowager with laxatives, and keeps throwing herself into the middle of a rebellion…

But the tyrant gazes at her with admiration. “Woman, you’ve got my attention!”

The powerful ministers are all impressed. “Miss Lin is remarkably farsighted. We could never match her!”

The neighboring kingdom trembles at the news. “This woman is terrifying. Whoever wins her will win the world!”

Lin Qingruo: “...?”

She watches herself “work” her way up from cannon fodder to empress, getting farther and farther from home, until she finally breaks down. Grabbing the collar of the regent villain, a man famed for killing without batting an eye, she begs, “Please, just kill me. Hurry!”

His gaze darkens. He pulls her into his arms, his voice low and hoarse. “Be good, Ruoruo. The empire is yours, and so am I. Want to die? Not in this lifetime.”