Luo Xixi transmigrated before birth and was reborn as Zhihua from My Fair Princess III, the woman destined to become Yongqi’s concubine.
The good news: she has a System.
The bad news: the System is completely unhinged.
Other people’s Systems hand out rewards for completing tasks and diligently serve as a golden finger. Hers gives her whatever it wants, whenever it wants, for no reason and with no strings attached. But that also means it’s completely out of control. One second it tosses her a bottle of hair-loss treatment, the next it makes her recite the English original of Jane Eyre in front of the Empress Dowager. Today, in a rare act of kindness, it gives her a copy of the Qianlong Emperor’s Daily Record; tomorrow, it suddenly gets “You love me, I love you, Mixue Ice Cream and Tea, sweet as can be” stuck on repeat in her head.
With the face of a proper young lady, she calmly makes the boldest decision of the era: she’ll give up on Yongqi and go straight after Qianlong.
She uses the ridiculous props produced by the System’s intermittent episodes, along with her rock-solid “I don’t care what kind of fit you’re throwing, I’m staying calm” attitude, to carve out a path unlike any other before the emperor. While other consorts perform dances, she presents a world map spawned by the System’s latest malfunction, even though the scale is completely wrong. While other princes fight for power, she casually quotes an obscure passage from the Comprehensive Mirror to Aid in Government that the System drilled into her during one of its episodes. The more Qianlong watches her, the more he finds her unfathomable and unlike anyone else.
Gradually, the emperor’s gaze toward her begins to change. Rumors spread through the court and the harem: Zhihua is either a peerless genius or a madwoman.
And Luo Xixi knows that the moment the emperor’s gaze falls on her,
every one of the System’s episodes becomes another rung on the ladder she’s climbing.
