When the Salty-Fish Heroine Picks Up the Villain's Script

Chi Qing works in the female lead department. Because she's far too content to laze around, her performance has been at the bottom of the rankings for years. One day, she gets assigned to an old-school power fantasy novel and takes on the role of the female lead: the one who eventually becomes the male lead's principal wife among his three wives and four concubines. But her boss never expected much in the way of results from her in the first place. With little care, he accidentally gives her the wrong script, handing her the villainess's role instead of the female lead's. The problem is, this particular lazy fish can rationalize anything with her overactive imagination. Question the script? Chi Qing says: No, absolutely not. * She opens the script to the first page: Step One: Put the male lead in his place. Chi Qing: Ah... Ah, she gets it. It's that familiar trope where the haughty rich girl turns around and falls for him later, isn't it? Step Two: Take the male lead's golden finger. Chi Qing: ...Huh? Oh, she gets it. What's his is hers, isn't it? A husband and wife have to be united to reach the pinnacle of life together! And so, in the face of an increasingly absurd script, Chi Qing's powerful imagination helped her muddle through to the very end. That is, until she'd completely blocked the male lead's path to ascension, while every other love interest came flocking to him and he loathed her above all others. At last, Chi Qing couldn't help reflecting... Wait... Shouldn't she, the principal-wife female lead, be getting back to her proper role? * One day, Mo Yun, the real villain, suddenly realizes that the things he wants to do have all been done by the younger daughter of the Chi family. He ponders this to himself. Hmm, could this be what people mean by a kindred spirit? They really do think alike... He exclaims from the bottom of his heart: So this is what it feels like to find a kindred spirit! Chi Qing: ... Theme: A max-level lazy fish's lie-flat life.