The Max-Level Expert Just Wants to Lie Flat and Be a Couch Potato

A decisive, ruthless businesswoman, hated by everyone and then adored by everyone, versus a beautiful, yandere NPC who's sweet on the outside and dark within

Shi Yi is the youngest partner at one of the Big Four firms. She can handle business negotiations, navigate earnout agreements, and get IPOs across the line. She's known as the she-devil of the business world.

A max-level powerhouse who works herself to the bone, she meets her end because of work at the height of her success.

After dying young, Shi Yi wakes up in an old-school, melodramatic tragic romance novel, in the body of a villainess who shares her name.

Her father is a great general, and her mother is a first-rank noblewoman. Given a second life, Shi Yi just wants to lie flat and live like a lazy fish.

Unfortunately

The original heroine has a powerful protagonist's halo. She causes trouble everywhere and can't get herself killed, but constantly drags the cannon-fodder villainess down with her.

The original male lead is a top-tier scumbag. He has one confidante after another and lies through his teeth, yet somehow always manages to win the original heroine's forgiveness.

The first male supporting character wants to force Shi Yi into marriage, gain the general's support, then get rid of her.

The second male supporting character plans to kidnap Shi Yi as a hostage, force the great general to surrender, then grind her bones to dust.

Shi Yi, who has no talent for lying flat: You're forcing me to make trouble!

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Shi Yi turns the capital into a blood-soaked battlefield with her own two hands, then leaves with the pitiful, yandere beauty in tow, brushing the dust off her hands.

Believing that you can be poor in anything but beauty, and that a yandere beauty should never have to suffer, Shi Yi plans to claim a share of the Jiangnan tycoon's fortune, buy herself an estate, and live a carefree life.

One day, Shi Yi suddenly discovers that the pitiful yandere beauty she brought all the way from the capital, and who has been helping her devise schemes to get a share of the Jiangnan tycoon's wealth, looks exactly like that mysterious Jiangnan tycoon.

This story is also known as:

"I'm Taking Over My Own Estate, and I Can't Even Let Myself Know"

"The Yandere Beauty Is Loaded, Yet Always Pretends to Be Pitiful"

Warnings:

1. The heroine is career-focused. The hero appears in Chapter Four.

2. The male lead is set. This is not a stock-picking romance.

3. Both the heroine and hero are contenders for a civilian Oscar.

4. The setting is entirely fictional. Please don't nitpick the history.

Theme: Oppose power, oppression, and discrimination. Be the master of your own fate.