After Awakening, the Villainess Tricks the Zombie King Into Becoming Her Lackey

Officially licensed novel adaptation of the Jiutian Manju original short drama, After the Villainess Awakens, I Trick the Zombie King into Becoming My Underling

When Qin Yishu awakens, she discovers she is the villainess in an apocalypse novel. The plot controls her, making her obsess over the male lead and abuse her bodyguard, Xie Jinzhi. After completing the scene where she pushes him off a high wall, she regains control of her body. She decides to jump down herself and become a zombie so she can conquer the apocalypse, but lands right on Xie Jinzhi, who is clinging to the wall in a desperate bid to survive. He mistakes her actions for a suicide leap for love. Xie Jinzhi fights desperately to protect her as they escape the zombie horde, but becomes infected and turns into the Zombie King. Qin Yishu simply tricks the dazed, innocent zombie into accepting her as his boss, then takes him along with a survivor squad to stockpile supplies, hunt zombies, and help him regain his sanity. When the secret virus lab behind it all comes to light, she joins forces with the original novel's male and female leads to destroy its source and finally break free of her scripted fate.