As a modern woman who has transmigrated into ancient times, Jin Yunguang has no intention of fitting in with this world.
That is precisely why her behavior is a little strange. Everyone in the capital thinks her parents spoiled her rotten and that she has no sense of a woman’s proper role.
Though odd, she still can’t escape the need for an arranged marriage once she reaches a suitable age.
As the third daughter of the Jin Chancellor’s family, she thinks that with her looks and family background, it shouldn’t be hard to find a suitable match if she chooses carefully.
The first person she likes is Xiao Lin, heir to the Prince of Nan’an: handsome, refined, noble, and arrogant.
Who knew that after she showed him the slightest bit of favor, Xiao Lin would treat her affection like a grave humiliation? He not only insulted her in public, but declared that he only liked girls like Xu Zijin.
Even his friend, the capital’s jade-like gentleman Xie Yulin, inexplicably looked down on her and was always making snide remarks.
Jin Yunguang was so furious her face turned purple as an eggplant and her cheeks puffed up like a toad’s. She put this deep grudge aside for the moment and decided to try someone else.
After all, this place is strange. There are handsome men everywhere, and each has his own charms.
The second person she chose was Wen Zhiyan, the capital’s richest man: elegant, mature, and wealthy beyond measure. But simply because she couldn’t tell the difference between exquisite jade and Chushan jade, Wen Zhiyan coldly mocked her: “You’re just a nobody.”
??? You’re dead to me!!!
She gritted her teeth, held a grudge, and moved on.
The third was her childhood friend Nangong Lie, a handsome young man who liked to wear red robes. But he said she had always been good at pretending to be pitiful, sowing discord, and vying for the elders’ affection...
For the fourth, she reluctantly settled on Zhan Chong, the handsome steward of her household and her elder brother’s study companion. He was well-read and skilled in martial arts. But this usually respectful steward said her words and actions were absurd, and that she was nothing like her elder sister.
Fine. You can all get lost.
Next came the martial arts alliance leader, the top scholar at the academy, the third-place exam winner who taught her, and...
Even when she went to the temple to burn incense, a haughty, handsome monk had to make a couple of snide remarks about her...
Even a fool would realize that something was wrong with the world she lived in.
She tentatively confessed to a dog by the roadside. The dog threw up.
It turned out that everyone she liked hated her.
What was the point of playing this game, then! She cursed all the handsome men’s ancestors for eighteen generations in her heart and decided to lie flat.
Just then, a System appeared out of nowhere and told her that, because parts of several novel worlds had overlapped, all the loathsome female supporting characters’ misfortunes had piled onto her alone. It was indeed unfair, so the novels’ main System had sent it to help her.
The good news was that all the male leads were here, too.
Jin Yunguang: “I get it. You’ll help me stun everyone in a poetry contest, soar to the top in a talent competition, make a name for myself on the battlefield, and turn me into an all-around, universally adored heroine!”
System: “You’re imagining things I never promised.”
Jin Yunguang: “Then...”
System: “I’m a melodrama System.”
Melodrama means the heir is poisoned, and only she can cure him; Xie Yulin falls into the water, and she has to give him CPR; Wen Zhiyan is evading his enemies and just happens to hide in her room...
There’s too much to do, way too much!
Jin Yunguang: “Wait, are you even a legitimate System?”
The System took a drag on its cigarette and asked wearily, “Have you ever heard of an enchanted realm where begonias bloom everywhere?”
Theme: Never bow to fate.