Jiang Li was bound to a Strategist System. To stay alive, she had to find a worthy lord and help him become king.
She thought she'd gotten a classic power-up story, but once she started, she realized she'd been handed an old-school, angsty cannon-fodder plot.
Everyone urged her to be patient and kind, to swallow her grievances and make compromises...
Just because she'd taken the place of the real heiress for fifteen years, did she deserve to marry an old man and pave the way for the true heiress?
She would repay the family for raising her, but put up with this? Be kind?
Without another word, she picked up a giant battle axe. I'll put up with you when pigs fly!
Jiang Li thought she had it bad...
Until she met her lord, whose country had fallen and family been destroyed, reduced to a slave and clinging to life. Only then did she realize just how much of a rip-off this Strategist System was.
Jiang Li sighed and reached out to the battered, scrawny boy.
Years later, the scrawny boy of the past, now a true ruler, held her back just as she was about to retire after accomplishing her mission. He smiled faintly. "If you leave, Teacher, I will raze this city and destroy this country..."
Jiang Li: The scrawny boy I raised into a crooked ruler (my lord) is my mess, so I'll have to set him straight, even if it makes me cry.
[Violent heroine who rules heaven and earth x brooding, obsessive puppy boy beset by hardship]
Screenshots taken on 2019.07.21. Do not try to pass this off as yours.
He fell from the clouds into the dust, stained with filth, and from then on the world was desolate. Later, he was fortunate enough to meet her, and finally found a pure place in his heart.
One-line summary: After transmigrating as the fake heiress, I was forced to raise the male lead.
