Period drama + devoted, exclusive romance + stunning and dazzling heroine with a haughty streak × hero whose secret love comes true, an obsessive, loyal puppy + the System keeps urging her to die, but spends every day shipping the couple
Other people are reborn to enjoy a better life. The first thing Shen Qinghe hears when she opens her eyes is...
[Host, it’s time for you to die.]
Shen Qinghe: “...Have you no manners?”
[The System is here to send you off. You brought about your own death in your previous life, were sold into the mountains, and beaten to death. This time, leave the stage early and make room for the male lead and the woman chosen by fate.]
Shen Qinghe: “You think I’ll die just because you tell me to?” Doesn’t she have any dignity?!
System: [You won’t survive the plot correction anyway. You’ll be kicked out sooner or later. Gu Huaisheng will become the richest man in the country. If you don’t die now, you’ll just be crushed to dust by the plot.]
Shen Qinghe refuses to believe it.
She insists on surviving. When her family is dispossessed and she’s driven out of her Western-style mansion, she doesn’t cry. When all her relatives and friends pretend to be dead, she doesn’t cry.
In the end, Gu Huaisheng, the bodyguard she used to look down on, gives her a marriage referral letter and saves her from hardship in the communal cattle shed.
She thinks the man only wants her body because she’s a young lady from a wealthy family.
Later, she discovers that he’s been secretly in love with her.
The two of them, both born under a dark cloud, start doing business.
Gu Huaisheng takes the heat and runs their business for her by day. At night, he listens to her curse him for his outrageous behavior, and he never lets up.
Just as their lives begin to improve, the System starts a countdown. “You two are bound to split up eventually. Lin Peipei has already dreamed of her past life. The woman chosen by fate is going to reclaim her place. Give up.”
Shen Qinghe says she doesn’t care who gets him, then turns around and pins Gu Huaisheng to a chair. “You’d better not fall for someone else!!!”
The System breaks down: [I told you to leave the stage, not to raise the male lead into a rabid dog. I can’t explain this to my superiors if you two keep acting like this.]