Jiang Wan transmigrates into a political intrigue novel and is bound to a conquest System. If he completes his conquest, he can return to the real world.
At first, Jiang Wan thinks the task will be easy. But after his fifth failure, he realizes that he was never the one anyone chose.
The Crown Prince treats him as a pawn to help him seize power. The general uses him as a stand-in. The hostage prince from an enemy state abandons him. The impoverished scholar chooses his future over Jiang Wan.
On his final conquest, faced with another melodramatic either-or choice, he is abandoned once more.
The System regretfully informs him: [We're sorry. Due to your repeated failures, your status as a Conquest Target has been revoked.]
Without his Conquest Target status, and with the injuries from five failed conquests piling up, Jiang Wan is close to death.
With death approaching and his heart turned to ashes, Jiang Wan gives up trying.
The System takes pity on him and gives him a new identity, but all he wants is to spend the last stretch of his life in peace.
Yet this time, everything is different.
He hears the Crown Prince is frantically searching for a study companion.
The general has been waiting in a border town for years, for someone who will never return.
The hostage prince has returned to his homeland and requested a political marriage, seeking to wed an official's son.
The top scholar searches all over the capital, unable to find the wife who stood by him when he had nothing.
None of them know that Jiang Wan used a different identity for every conquest.
They are destined to wait for him in vain.
Later, Jiang Wan passes a missing-person notice without expression, only to find the Crown Prince waiting for him at his courtyard gate.
The Crown Prince, once dignified and aloof, has red-rimmed eyes and stammers, "I found you the best physician. Your illness..."
Affection that comes too late is worth less than grass.
Jiang Wan walks past him without a word and closes the door.
After that, people can often be seen standing outside the secluded courtyard: the Crown Prince, the general, the top scholar...
But Jiang Wan never appears.
Sometimes, when the people in the courtyard argue too loudly, the door opens.
But the person who comes out is a stranger.
He wears elaborate robes and has a cool, indifferent expression.
He is the Regent of the empire.
"You're keeping him from sleeping."
Theme: Keep striving
Salted Fish Extras
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Oh No, Why Has My Gossip Radar Stopped Working?
A Takeout Guide to the Escape Game [Infinite]
Bunny Extras
A Laid-Back Groom, Lounging Around and Enjoying the Gossip
Immortal Venerable, Would You Like a Spirit Pet?
A Life of Slacking in the Prince's Mansion After I Transmigrated into a Book
Saving the Romance-Brained Regent [Book Transmigration]