Xue Zhiling has never known hardship. Her mother is a famous beauty and actress, her father a renowned surgeon, and her stepfather a tycoon. Even when the apocalypse arrives, she has no special ability, yet she can still live in a little villa at the base, drinking tea and watching the show.
She is naturally spoiled and arrogant, demanding all sorts of things from her brother even in the apocalypse.
But on the night her brother's ability-user team heads out to eliminate a fourth-tier zombie, she has a dream and learns that she is an early-stage spoiled cannon-fodder character in an apocalypse novel.
The original is a male-led story with no romance, a little ensemble cast, and her brother, Jiang Yuan, as the protagonist. After the apocalypse begins, Jiang Yuan awakens his ability, meets a group of like-minded people, survives natural disasters, zombies, and mutated plants and animals, builds a base, and becomes humanity's beacon of hope.
As Jiang Yuan's sister, though they share neither parent, her ability is weak. Not only does she fail to understand how hard he works, she is incredibly selfish and willful. Unable to put up with her spoiled behavior, Jiang Yuan, already a ruthless schemer, doesn't tell her outright. He leaves to deal with the fourth-tier zombies and abandons Xue Zhiling at the base.
When news arrives that Jiang Yuan has supposedly died, Xue Zhiling naturally becomes everyone's target. She is driven out of the villa and ordered to work, and then...
Three months later, Jiang Yuan returns. When he hears that Xue Zhiling is dead, he feels no grief. Instead, he uses her name as a pretext to purge the factions at the base that oppose him.
"Xiao Ling, are you going to cozy up to the high-level ability users and get them to protect you?" the System suggests in its gentle voice.
Clutching the controller in her hand, Xue Zhiling smiles sweetly. "Hmph, no way."
The controller is meant to keep the base safe. Every ability user who joins must wear one, giving its holder control over their lives and deaths at the press of a button. It was Jiang Yuan's rule, and even he wears one.
But perhaps he has forgotten that she has the controller.
Swinging it around, Xue Zhiling does not try to cozy up to those high-level ability users. Instead, she becomes even more spoiled. Today, she dates one of them; a few days after they break up, she moves on to another.
Seeing their angry, helpless faces, Xue Zhiling smiles even more sweetly.
Until one day, the controller stops working. She figures she's had a good run and is ready to die peacefully, but then she sees her exes looking at her with resentment and covetous desire.
Not a strong female lead; this is a female-oriented romance.
No harem. The romance is one-on-one at each stage, and she only starts dating someone new after breaking up with the previous one.
Jiang Yuan and the female lead are not blood relatives and are not registered in the same household.
There is foreshadowing behind the controller being in the female lead's hands.
Theme: Have the courage to be yourself.
