Fu Qiqi transmigrates into a book and becomes the emperor's deceased white moonlight.
The System's task is simple and brutal: get the emperor, the male lead, to sentence her to death, and she can return to the real world.
So she confesses to an affair and keeps provoking the emperor, testing his limits in every way.
What she never expected was that Emperor Xiao Yi had been reborn.
In his previous life, he mistakenly killed her, then spent the rest of his days tormented by endless regret.
While the other women in the harem fight for favor, she pursues the emperor in reverse, begging him to sentence her to death.
She works hard to rack up the male lead's hatred points so he'll kill her.
But no matter how recklessly and wildly she acts, Xiao Yi gives way every time.
Even when his hatred points surge off the charts, they always calm down and drop back to zero. She has trampled all over the emperor's limits.
The other women in the harem see what's going on: Xiao Yi protects her so thoroughly that there's no chance of getting rid of her through the emperor.
So they go around him and take matters into their own hands, trying to eliminate the source of their troubles!
Poisoning, framing, ambushes, one underhanded scheme after another.
Fu Qiqi is dumbfounded.
She has to keep coming up with new ways to beg the emperor to sentence her to death, while staying on high alert to dodge hidden poisoned arrows and traps.
Dying isn't hard. Getting the exact kind of death she wants is!
Fu Qiqi: Your Majesty! Please, sentence this concubine to death!
Xiao Yi: Qiqi, you're adorable when you act up.
The harem: If His Majesty can't bring himself to kill her, we will!
Fu Qiqi: You can't do it, you know. I'll just have to kill you instead.
Just as she's reveling in the carnage, the original heroine appears, and it turns out she's reborn too.
The original novel's ending cuts off on the heroine's wedding night, after she is made empress. She falls asleep, then is forcibly taken offline and rebooted.
The hero and heroine both believe the other killed them, and were reborn after their deaths. They loved each other in their previous life, but now they're out to kill each other.
The System offers another shortcut home: clear up the misunderstanding between the original hero and heroine so they can get back on track to a happy ending.
Fu Qiqi gives it a try. It's even harder than getting herself killed.
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