Li Muham and her younger sister Li Mingji transmigrated into a forced-marriage novel as background refugee characters who appear at the very beginning. Her sister was born into the novel as its heroine and became a kitchen maid in the marquis's residence.
In the book, the heroine devotes herself to learning skills and saving money to buy her freedom. But after the heir returns to the manor, he forcibly takes her as a concubine. She tries to escape again and again, only to be caught each time, her personality crushed until she becomes the heir's caged songbird.
Li Muham closed the book. She would never let her sister end up like that.
So, using her knowledge of the story, she planned ahead and led her sister out of danger time and again, only to be discovered and dragged back time and again.
She herself even became a captive of the enemy and a shackle around her sister.
Li Muham knew that the two sisters couldn't manage alone. She studied the plot closely and decided to seek out Ming Junyan, the crown prince who was ruthless in the original story and eventually ascended the throne.
"I'll tell you what happens in the future. You help me kill the heir."
Ming Junyan looked at the woman before him, the empress who had personally offered him a cup of poisoned wine in his previous life. A sinister smile curled his lips. "I don't need to know the future. What else can you offer me?"
Li Muham pressed her lips together, a flash of resolve in her eyes. "Anything."
The smile vanished from Ming Junyan's cold, stern face. His voice was utterly devoid of warmth as he ordered, "Come here. Kneel."
"Please me."
*
"Why not kill him for treason?"
In the great hall, the proud and unyielding woman asked in a clear, forceful voice.
Obsession churned in Ming Junyan's eyes.
His soul had wandered for a hundred years, and he had never understood why his empress had insisted on killing his cousin, Lu Huaiche.
Even at the cost of killing him.
"Why must you kill him?" (Why must you kill me?)
Ming Junyan walked up to her and cruelly gripped her chin. The soft flesh sank beneath his fingers, leaving a vicious red mark. "You're going to say it's for a slave again."
He closed his dim eyes, refusing to hear another word. "Take her away. Lock her in my bedchamber."
A Li.
You used me, so you should stay with me for all eternity.
Theme: Opposing feudalism.
