Lin Ruoxue transmigrated into a book and was bound to a lousy System that only worked now and then.
For the generous bonus, she gritted her teeth and played the innocent, delicate flower in a melodramatic angst novel for over half a year. Every day, she put on a sweet voice, shed tears, and acted helpless for the scumbag. She was almost starting to believe her own act. But the bonus never came, and she nearly lost her life instead. The System froze like an old cell phone at the crucial moment and was completely useless.
She thought she was following a script about enduring humiliation to complete her mission, but the doomed supporting characters in the story started acting increasingly strange. Then she suddenly discovered that Su Qin, the scumbag's ill-fated general's wife, was from her own world!
One was a book-transmigrating temp worker, the other a native-born heroine who had awakened. One had been screwed over by the System until she wanted to curse, while the other had been tormented by the scumbag until she finally saw clearly. Kindred spirits meet, and tears well up in their eyes. The very next moment, they join forces: no more men, no more serving the plot, and whoever wants to do the mission can do it. First, they make a run for it!
Even more absurdly, Su Qin has an immortal-sect senior brother who can split realms with a single sword. With a casual gesture, he whisks them from a melodramatic palace-intrigue scenario into a vast cultivation world.
Lin Ruoxue suddenly realizes:
What future is there in fighting household battles with a scumbag?
What's so great about being a consort and winning favor?
Leaning on a fellow townsman's golden thigh and switching tracks to cultivate immortality is the real way to defy fate!
From then on:
The glitching System wheezes through its mission announcements,
Lin Ruoxue fires off verbal attacks as she is forced to grow,
Su Qin handles things with a cool head and a ruthless hand,
and the two fellow townsmen blaze a trail together in the new world, face-slap the old plot, and put every challenger in their place.