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[Sunny, optimistic girl treasure vs. gentle, gloomy male ghost]
Zheng Li transmigrated into a badly written, unfinished old-school novel.
The good news: She was bound to a Love Bodyguard System. If she could get the original novel's male and female leads together for a happy ending, she could return to the modern world.
The bad news: She had transmigrated as a random passerby. Whenever she tried to interfere in the protagonists' fates, the world's mechanisms blocked her, leaving her unable to act.
Even worse, from the start, she was married to the original novel's villain.
[Host can work with the villain to break through the world's restrictions on the male and female leads.]
Zheng Li was stunned. Work with who?
The major villain Qu Heng, who had personally slaughtered half the characters in the book?!
The System wasn't exactly helpful, either.
Garbage ads and pop-ups kept filling the screen, and sometimes she even landed on shady websites by accident. Zheng Li was so furious she tore at her hair, and finally switched to minimalist mode.
The panel was now spotless, with nothing left but a bouncing intimacy meter.
At last, some peace and quiet.
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To get home as soon as possible, Zheng Li followed the System's instructions and formed a friendly partnership with Qu Heng.
Using her status as the Prime Minister's legitimate daughter, she secretly helped Qu Heng expand his power.
Qu Heng continued to follow the villain's plot, while also helping Zheng Li get close to the male and female leads so she could complete her matchmaking mission.
Qu Heng beat the male lead until his head was covered in blood, and Zheng Li rushed to rescue him with the female lead.
Intimacy: [Up!]
Qu Heng framed the female lead for treason and colluding with the enemy, so Zheng Li and the male lead brought evidence to clear her name.
Intimacy: [Up again!]
Qu Heng prepared to wipe out the male lead's entire family, so Zheng Li and the female lead armed themselves and helped him escape.
Intimacy: [Up, up, up!]
Their partnership was flawless. As Zheng Li watched the intimacy meter skyrocket, she could barely contain her joy: Going home was just around the corner!
All the while, she failed to notice the eyes growing increasingly dark and possessive.
Then one day, Zheng Li switched the System back to full mode and was left utterly stunned.
The System had secretly changed the matchmaking targets long ago.
That intimacy meter, rising like a runaway horse, had been measuring the relationship between her and the gloomy villain beside her all along.
Zheng Li slowly turned her head.
Qu Heng was peeling an orange nearby. He glanced up and smiled. "Did our number go up again?"
Zheng Li: "..."
Going home? As if.
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Both are each other's first and only, one-on-one, happy ending.
The reason the System changed the matchmaking targets will be explained in detail in the story.
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Content warnings:
① The male lead is genuinely bad at first. He schemes against the heroine and takes advantage of circumstances. Later, he has to chase her after he falls for her, paying dearly for it.
② The male lead can't see the System panel, but he can sense the System's presence through the heroine's behavior and figure out what the numbers on her panel mean.
③ The original novel's heroine is Feng Xiyu, and its hero is Gu Lingye.
④ More to be added after the story begins...
Theme: Study hard and make progress every day.
