In her previous life, Shen Yanru transmigrated into a book, into a male-lead-centric story. To level up her malicious System, she made a name for herself throughout the Great Wei as a villainess. From wealthy merchants to young masters of noble families, not one of them didn't hate her to the bone. She broke every one of their hearts.
“You actually chose that good-for-nothing?” A noble family's legitimate eldest son collapsed to the ground, utterly humiliated.
“So it was all using me, from beginning to end, right?”
“You still chose to kill me. Do you even have a heart?”
“I thought you'd be content to die by my hand, just as I can only die by yours.”
From generals to civil officials, even the original male lead, everyone held a grudge against Shen Yanru. She had only one thing to say: “Love? I absolutely love you. I love the money on you most of all. But if you won't give it to me, I'll just have to take it.”
Go ahead and get revenge if you dare.
And so Shen Yanru was reborn, this time as a female supporting character in the same male-lead-centric story, one who was engaged to be married off to the original male lead and suspected of plotting her elder brother's murder.
This time, the System demanded that she avenge the character and restore her own rapidly deteriorating reputation. Shen Yanru turned to leave, but someone grabbed her: “You can take the money you earn by lowering your malice score back to the modern world.”
Looking at the old enemies around her, whose malice scores had been preserved, she smiled. “Don't worry. I'll treat them (and their money and power) as warmly as a spring breeze.”
But can someone explain why a certain person's malice score went down after she merely slapped him?
“When you hit a man like that, he'll only think you're being affectionate. Why don't you hit me like you used to?”
And no one mentioned that these people still remembered everything, either?
Wait, how did she end up becoming emperor while all this was going on?
One day, they awoke to a changed world, memories of the past flooding back. Watching Shen Yanru smile, they understood. “So you like normal people. You should've said so sooner.”
One person had no memories, so they resolved to reform and pretend to be normal, to start over and be a good person in front of her.
I hate you, but that doesn't mean I don't love you (?)
Unfortunately, there was no way to fake it. The mentally ill can't fool a doctor, even when the doctor is mentally ill too.
“She won't accept me. Could it be that she has such great love in her heart that she can't give herself over to romance?”
“How can we make her truly become someone who embraces all things and works for the good of the world?”
Theme: Strive hard and keep moving forward!
