I don't know how many times this has happened already.
Su Miaoyi carefully opened the expensive secret medicine she'd bought from the Western Regions, poured it into the sweet soup she'd cooked herself, put it in a food carrier, calculated the timing, and appeared along the path her beloved always took. She gave him a deliberately gentle smile.
Then she presented him with the bowl of drugged sweet soup.
Her beloved had grown up with her and had never been on guard around her. At her words, he gave her a touched smile and, just as she'd planned, went with her to the pavilion. Under her eager gaze, he picked up the bowl of sweet soup.
Just before her beloved's lips touched the porcelain bowl,
a figure suddenly appeared like a ghost, snatched the bowl from his hands, and drank it all in one gulp. As Su Miaoyi stared in terror, the figure gave her a cold smile that saw through everything, leaned down, and whispered in her ear:
"It's broad daylight. Why are you trembling, my dear wife?"
After transmigrating, Xiao Pingye wrote out the original story from memory, again and again. He knew every plot point and how every cannon-fodder character affected the original storyline. Naturally, he also knew every weakness of Su Miaoyi, the original story's chief villainess: spoiled, domineering, stupid, vicious, irresponsible, and easily swayed.
The System had warned him many times not to change the plot on his own, and especially not to alter any character's fate. Even if he did it flawlessly, he couldn't make the villainess exit the story early.
Xiao Pingye lazily agreed, but didn't take it to heart.
It would be all too easy to write out a stupid, spineless villainess.
Until one warm spring day in the third month, when Su Miaoyi came fluttering over in a gold-woven gown like a butterfly. Mistaking him for the male lead, Xiao Ru, she called him "Brother Xiao" in a sweet, soft voice. Her scent was intoxicating, and her hibiscus-like face was seven times more beautiful than the peach blossoms of the third month.
She was breathtakingly beautiful.
Much later, the System challenged him:
"I told you to stop the villainess. What do you mean by marrying her, spoiling her, and sharing her bed every day? Did I give you the plot so you could use it to fall in love?"
Reading guide:
BG, both leads are virgins. The heroine liked the second male lead early on, but the male lead only ever likes her.
The heroine isn't exactly pure-hearted and virtuous. The male lead will set her straight. A story where bad people get their comeuppance from someone worse.
Theme: Actively pursue the life you want