The Conquest System Said the Second Male Lead Would Lose, but He Won

The day I was transmigrated into the cannon-fodder heroine, the System told me to bring the Regent and the female lead together.

I brought her to him, but he drunkenly pinched my chin and said, “Yao’er, I don’t kiss anyone else.”

I changed tactics and sent the female lead to have a chance encounter with the gentle Imperial Tutor. He broke off a branch of flowering crabapple and handed it to me. “If Miss Jiang wants to see me, she only needs to send word. There’s no need to go to all this trouble matchmaking.”

Me: ...System, did they get their targets mixed up?

The System fell silent for three seconds, then a bright red warning appeared: [The second male lead has deviated from the plot and is unlocking the “claim the heroine” route.]

Only later did I learn that he had kept the words “Yao’er” hidden in his heart for ten whole years.

Later still, the Imperial Tutor resigned his office and knelt before the palace hall, saying he would no longer be a gentleman and wanted only me. It wasn’t until our wedding day that I learned...

The target to be won over had never been chosen by me.

It was the System. It was the book. It was fate, already written.

And the second male lead, who was supposed to love only the female lead, rewrote the ending at the final moment.

The history books record that in the third year of Pingning, the Regent and the Imperial Tutor marched together to the southern frontier and won a great victory.

No one knew that on the night before the campaign, the two of them stood outside my door for the entire night.

One said, “Wait for me.” The other said, “I’ve waited long enough.”