The Real Player Has No Feelings

Yu Yao was bound to a Sea King System. According to its rules, she could only stay alive by keeping up her Sea King persona and treating everyone equally.

In this world, Yu Yao was a princess of a fallen dynasty, captured by an enemy nation. Her beauty was peerless, and a breathtaking dance at a state banquet made her famous throughout the land.

Thanks to Yu Yao's skill at keeping everyone happy, the dignified and imposing Crown Princess, the fearsome female general, and others all became close friends, competing to swear sisterhood with her.

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Only the State Preceptor, Dou Ciyu, slandered her at every turn, insisting she was a calamity who would bring ruin to the country, an ill omen sent from heaven who must not be allowed to remain in Chu.

This time, the System gave Yu Yao one final command: win over the State Preceptor.

Yu Yao smiled seductively. "Just what I had in mind."

But no matter what she tried, all she got from Dou Ciyu was a cool, dismissive, "Utterly vulgar."

Yu Yao gritted her teeth in secret. "Just you wait. You'll pay for this."

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One night, while observing the stars, Dou Ciyu calculated that a calamity awaited her in her fate: a tribulation of love.

She was sinking into the mire, unable to pull herself free and suffering terribly. All she could do was pretend to despise Yu Yao, never imagining that the other woman would take her at her word.

After one night of passion, Princess Yu Yao vanished without a trace, and the State Preceptor left the capital to travel the land.

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When they met again, years had passed.

Yu Yao held a baby in her arms and pointed at Dou Ciyu. "Be good, sweetheart. That's your Aunt Dou."

Dou Ciyu: "…"

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Fish-raising expert / sweet on the outside, dark within / seductive princess shou x easily embarrassed / aloof beauty / secretly passionate and ascetic State Preceptor gong

[Reader's Guide]

1. A fake chasing-the-wife-to-the-crematorium plot.

2. Enjoy the story, discuss rationally, mwah =3=

Here's a little teaser, written on 2021.8.8

Theme: Unearned gain is shameful; earning your own way is honorable.