When Mu Ningxi wakes up, she has become the villainess in a novel.
In the original story, she is the fake heiress who stole another girl's place.
She is not only arrogant and overbearing, but also pursues the aloof chancellor, climbs into the bed of her elder cousin, the heir apparent, and even drugs a young general to force him into marriage.
The chancellor despises her, her cousin is sick of her, and the young general loathes her. In the capital, she becomes a public enemy, and everyone wants her dead.
After doing every wicked thing imaginable, she meets a miserable end, abandoned in the wilderness with even her head carried off by a wild dog.
Now that she has become this villainess, Mu Ningxi has one thing to say:
She never got to enjoy any of the privileges of a noblewoman, but she sure got all the suffering.
Still, since she's here, she might as well make the best of it. She absolutely refuses to accept this fate!
Faced with the real heiress, who makes life difficult for her at every turn, and a mother who beats and berates her on a whim, she stops meekly putting up with it and starts planning her every move:
The general and the heir apparent, who once avoided her like the plague, become devoted to her with only a little deft maneuvering.
Even the aloof chancellor, a flower atop an unreachable peak, willingly lowers himself and serves her as his master.
Later, she disguises herself as a palace maid to meet the rumored cruel, murderous mad emperor.
Everyone assumes she will be torn to pieces and thrown out of the palace within fifteen minutes.
But they wait and wait, only to see her walk out unharmed.
Only she knows what happened that day in the emperor's dim, intimate bedchamber: the mad emperor pins her against the corner of the bed, his eyes bloodshot.
His voice is hoarse and low. "Whatever you ask me to do, I'll do it."
Mu Ningxi lifts his chin with her slender hand, smiles, and speaks in a breath as sweet as orchids: "Give me the throne. How about that?"
"Fine. It's yours. All of it, and my life too."
