The main story is told in third person. If you're passing by, dear readers, please show your support and add it to your collection ^ ^
As the story nears its later stages, the vicious supporting female characters are about to suffer the consequences of their actions. But when they learn their fates in advance, they decide to quit.
Su Qing is forcibly recruited by a shady System.
System: You have to bring the story to a perfect ending and take the male lead's and readers' anger for it.
Su Qing: Don't worry!
System: ...Later, the plot went so far off the rails that even its mother wouldn't recognize it!
[World 1: The Fallen Princess]
You are extravagant, pleasure-seeking, and capricious, but you are a beloved princess. The people you toy with can do nothing about it. Then one day, the capital falls, and you and the royal family become prisoners awaiting the new emperor's judgment.
Later, you go from being a shadow from the new emperor's past to his new nightmare...
[World 2: The Scholar Groom]
You are the daughter of the Grand Tutor, frail and sickly since childhood. Your father values talent and betroths you to a top-scoring scholar from a poor family. But you can't bear to be lonely, so you secretly keep a lover on the side and cuckold the scholar. You think you've kept it discreet, but for some reason, you feel the scholar growing colder toward you.
Later, the Grand Tutor falls from power, and the scholar becomes a favorite of the emperor...
[World 3: A Grand Scheme for the Realm]
You carry a blood feud and swear to reclaim what is yours, no matter the cost. But an unexpected general of peasant origins appears. A brilliant commander with a host of advisers, he swiftly becomes your strongest rival. Jealous to the extreme, you decide to stake everything on a calculated move: you cripple both his legs, then fake your death and disappear.
Later, you meet him on the battlefield between the two armies...
[World 4: A Dazzling Spotlight]
You are a vain campus belle who secretly dates a wealthy school bully to cultivate the image of a rich heiress. The bully is all brawn and no brains. Even his friends look down on you, convinced you're a bad girl with ulterior motives, but he won't believe them. Then, after graduation, you dump him, climb into the bed of a rich backer, and throw yourself into show business.
Later, your backer and the school bully cross paths, and you see your backer bowing and scraping to him...
[World 5: The Savior]
Your family is dirt-poor, but your ancestors have practiced medicine for generations, and you are skilled in the art yourself. One day, while gathering herbs in the mountains, you come across a richly dressed man and woman. The man is unconscious. The woman, reluctant to leave him, entrusts him to your care and resolutely draws the pursuers away...
Three days later, the man wakes and mistakes you for his savior. You don't correct him, and he takes you back with him, naming you a secondary consort of the Crown Prince and showering you with affection.
Later, the woman from before returns, and the truth comes to light...
[Worlds 6, 7, 8...]
Reader's guide:
1. The female lead is a great beauty who loves herself most of all.
2. The male lead(s) are hopeless romantics. No splitting them into fragments.
3. Some smaller-world endings are happy, others tragic.
4. Immersive roleplay, with the System barely making its presence felt.
5. Bitter love, melodrama, and push-and-pull.
Theme: In difficult times, keep your heart turned toward the light
