On Becoming My Own Substitute

Yao Zheng was scared out of her wits. She had finally completed three missions and had only one left. She was about to clock out successfully and return to her world.

But! She had once again ended up with a gorgeous, powerful, tragic heroine's role. Heaven knew how badly this timid, softhearted girl wanted to play a little white flower for once and just be herself, but it never worked out. She could cry her eyes out!

That would've been bad enough, but this time her mission was to be the stand-in for the current three male leads' true loves. That's right! In plain terms:

Be her own stand-in!

Damn it!

Watching the male leads she'd previously conquered glare at her, she clutched her secret identity close, trembling and on the verge of tears as she considered taking her own life...

Mission One: She was a beautiful and talented princess sent to marry into an enemy kingdom. Unfortunately, luck was not on her side. The crown prince had a true love. After winning her trust, he marched his iron-clad troops into her country and destroyed it. She herself jumped from the city walls, dying with "hatred" in her heart!

Mission Two: She was the daughter of a marquis's household, which had been confiscated and destroyed. Her beauty dazzled the capital, and she nearly ended up in a brothel. Although the Minister of Justice rescued her, she became his mistress. In the end, on the day he married, his principal wife killed her with a single dose of poison.

Mission Three: She became the cousin of the Prince of Nanqi. She and her childhood sweetheart should have been a perfect match, but her father's imprisonment ruined everything. The prince's household refused to acknowledge the engagement and called her delusional, shameless, and presumptuous. On a snowy day, she went to return their tokens of affection, but an ambushing assassin took her life. She died in the bitter winter...

This time, she became the daughter of the emperor's newly favored chief minister. And then... she looked at the face before her and sank into deep terror! Her eyes were like the former crown princess's, her lips like the marquis's daughter, and her willow-leaf eyebrows like the cousin from the Prince of Nanqi's household. Did she have any hope of surviving???

Everyone gets the crematorium treatment.

Message: There is always light at the end of the darkness, the light in your eyes.