The Villainess Has No Choice but to Take the Throne

The day the princess who had been lost among the common people was brought back to the palace, no one imagined she would become the Empire’s new ruler. · Li Li transmigrated into the vicious female side character of the melodramatic novel The Interstellar Darling: the real princess who had gone missing from the Interstellar Empire. According to the original plot, her family would love the fake princess more sincerely, driving Li Li to become twisted and set her on a path of no return as a hated villainess. But Li Li arrived a little too early. Rather than get involved in the plot, she’d much rather be a princess who spends money like water. She could ask her bargain-bin Emperor Dad for pocket money whenever she wanted, then buy a few of the interstellar world’s signature mechs to play with. So when the Crown Prince took the little princess to a neighboring planet for a vacation, Li Li went to school to study mechs. When the Crown Prince and the little princess acted out their chase-and-run romance, Li Li joined the military to learn how to pilot mechs. When the Crown Prince prepared to duel his romantic rival over the little princess, Li Li tried to stop the war to protect the Empire’s mech reserves. By the time the Crown Prince and the little princess had fallen out completely, the “little princess” was tearfully demanding to know why Li Li didn’t care about her. Stepping out of the government hall with the Empire’s domestic affairs in her hands, Li Li finally realized she might have accidentally taken the male lead’s place as Crown Prince and even won over the original heroine. Li Li: This might be hard to believe, but all I wanted at first was to play with mechs _(:з"∠)_. [Reader’s Notes] 1. The author has a day job and updates irregularly! 2. This is a comeback story, so the beginning may not be great and may have some logic bugs. I’m working on it. 3. The “little princess” in the blurb is not the male lead, but the female lead really does win her over. She belongs to a merfolk species whose sex changes upon adulthood. This is not a girls’ love story, but a romance, thank you! 4. The male lead has not been decided yet. · [Recommended: Qingshi Jiuniang’s upcoming modern romance, The Water Lily Care Guide] When Huo Shun first learned that his childhood friend’s name was also a variety of water lily, he’d looked up how water lilies grew on a whim. His conclusion was that they were easy to care for, as long as they got enough light. Many years later, after a twist of fate led him and Shi Luyan to register their marriage and live under the same roof, he discovered that the water lily in his home was the sort to take a mile when given an inch. ...But by then, it seemed a little late to regret it. Theme: Evil should be punished, and kindness should be rewarded