Top secretary Jiang Zao and her drama-loving variety-show screenwriter younger brother, Jiang Wan, are both reborn as doomed cannon-fodder siblings in the Duke of Anguo's household.
Jiang Zao is bound to the [Court Lady System]: she must max out the emperor's favorability and climb to the highest female official post in the palace.
Jiang Wan, however, is bound to the [Villain System]: he must achieve the ending where his entire family is executed. From then on, he never looks back on his path to courting death.
Jiang Zao: Looking at these missions, one of us is doomed sooner or later.
Their treacherous father plots with a rebellious prince to enthrone a new emperor, while their wicked stepmother tries to poison them!
That very night, the siblings swear a pact to live or die together: “You can go ahead and court death, and I'll focus on climbing the ranks, but we will never let the other one die.”
And so the court of Great Qi undergoes a dramatic change.
Today, her younger brother impeaches the crown prince; tomorrow, he petitions to depose the empress; the day after, he accuses a border general. He practically can't wait to provoke the emperor at every turn.
Meanwhile, Jiang Zao remains as calm as a pine before the emperor, serving tea, soothing the dragon, and repeatedly pulling her dramatic little brother back from the brink of death.
Unexpectedly, when the crown prince oversteps his bounds, the empress proves unvirtuous, and a border general rebels,
the emperor slams the table in praise: “Wanqing is truly Great Qi's most loyal subject!”
[System Notice: The villain mission is about to fail! Host will be permanently confined to this world!]
Her brother clutches her leg and wails like a stuck pig: “Sis! I'm not loyal, I'm the villain!”
Jiang Zao crouches with a beaming smile and pinches his cheek.
“Good boy. Since you can't leave, you can work for your big sister. I'm just one stepping stone away from the highest female official post in the palace.”
