Li Qiu Shui, a social worker who worked overtime until three in the morning, traveled through time and became Bai Yueguang Shen Qingyi, who was destined to jump into the lake in ancient abuse novels.
Everyone was waiting for her to sacrifice for love: the male lead visited her at night, and she should have welcomed him with tears - she retorted: "Climbing over the wall late at night is considered harassment." The second male protagonist confessed in the rain, and she should have been moved to tears - she handed over an umbrella: "The medical bills will be more expensive if you get wet." The system urged her to follow the script - she replied: "The heart rate is 58, very stable."
On the eve of the male protagonist's wedding, everyone came to the lake to "stop" her from jumping into the lake. But he saw her setting up a small table, making tea and drinking tea. She raised her head and asked, "The water is cold, why don't we have a cup of hot water together?"
For the first time, the plot collapsed.
What's even worse is that because she stopped acting, the whole world began to loosen up: the cold-faced prince no longer wanted to act affectionate and opened a teahouse to sell "refuse to accept business tea"; the female stand-in tore off the persona and opened an embroidery workshop to teach women to be self-reliant; the tragic male lead refused to die in the battle script and opened an escort agency that "only protects goods and does not talk about feelings"; even the villain's noble concubine gave up the palace fight and wrote "The Palace Concubine's Guide to Fishing".
One after another, people have changed from "post actors" to "living people".
And Li Qiushui is still growing vegetables, drying quilts, keeping accounts, and teaching women to read. She had no golden fingers or system halo, she just made the simplest choice——
Don't do what you don't want to do.
If you don't want to play a role, don't play it.
When the court wanted to punish her for "violating women's ethics", it was not just the male protagonist and his supporting character who stood up, but also the embroiderer, the maid, the proprietress of the porridge shop, the female instructor of the escort agency... Those who were "awakened" by her.
She didn't jump into the lake.
But everyone was saved.
Concept: True freedom is not to be loved by everyone, but to finally have no one force you to act. The core of this novel is not "how powerful the heroine is", nor is it a "counterattack and a slap in the face", but a simpler and more profound question: If you could stop acting, how would you like to live? Li Qiu Shui traveled through ancient torture novels, and what he faced was not the test of life and death, but the oppression of "performance" - everyone lived according to the script, and everyone played the role they "should play". The greatest resistance she made was not to overturn the world, but to stop cooperating. She refused to jump into the lake, not resisting fate, but simply stating the facts: it is better to drink tea as the water is cold. Her refusal to fall in love is not to retaliate against the male protagonist, but to express her attitude: What you put down is your own life, not for me. She rejected the "heartthrob" persona, not because she was noble, but because: being loved by everyone was too tiring. And the amazing thing is: when she stopped pleasing anyone, everyone began to be attracted to her. It's not because she has become more beautiful, stronger, and more capable. But because - she became real. Truth is the rarest thing. It is also the most powerful thing.