Good news: The evil empress Li Zhinian is finally dead. The whole world celebrates.
Bad news: Li Zhinian is reborn in a tumbledown hut, and not only has she been reborn, she's unexpectedly bound to a villain-redemption System.
Li Zhinian: "?"
In her previous life, she was an utterly wicked empress. Now they want her to save someone?
System: "Host, you must set the villain on the right path before he turns evil. Otherwise, the nations will be in danger!"
Li Zhinian says flatly, "What does that have to do with me? Don't get in my way while I go kill someone."
"After the villain turns evil, his view of you as an evil empress will lead him to have you torn apart by five horses!"
"?"
"Who is he, anyway?"
Did he have some grudge against her?
"Xie Fu. He just turned sixteen yesterday."
Li Zhinian scoffs. "He's sixteen. Can't I just stab him to death? Then I'll fight my way back to Chen!"
System: "No, Host. You can't kill him."
*
Li Zhinian doesn't believe it and goes to the place where the System says she first met the villain, Xie Fu.
She searches all around, and finally finds a trembling, raggedly dressed young boy in a corner.
Li Zhinian frowns. "This is the great villain who will slaughter everyone seven years from now?"
The System nods frantically.
"If people treated me like this, I'd turn evil too. I support him!"
The System reminds her, "Host, you'll be torn apart by five horses."
"Then I'll kill him."
She has just drawn her dagger when the boy raises his eyes to her, his face pale, his gaze clear and innocent.
Li Zhinian's eyes go wide.
She knows this villain.
In her previous life, when she was beaten half to death, the handsome young man who took a blade for her.
Reader's note: Both leads are flawed and not good people. They are bound by fate, and one System saves them both, haha.
The female lead transmigrated here in her previous life.
Inspired on March 19, 2024. The blurb has been screenshotted.
Theme: Everyone deserves to be loved.
