After the System Matched Me with an Ice-Cold Buddhist Monk (Food)

Du Qingruo transmigrates into a book, becoming the vicious legitimate elder sister in a household-intrigue novel.

In the original story, Du Qingruo can't tolerate her half-sister, the heroine. Vicious and domineering, she ends up dead in the street, her corpse abandoned in the wilderness.

Before she can recover from the shock, the System arrogantly tells her that to avoid the tragic ending of the original story, she must win over the ice-cold Buddhist cultivator it has matched her with, a man who has kept himself pure for the sake of his white moonlight. It then orders her around, demanding she get started at once.

Du Qingruo: "?"

A white moonlight? Keeping himself pure? He doesn't sound like a proper Buddhist cultivator at all.

She closes her eyes, pulls the covers over herself, and goes right back to sleep.

The original story's plot?

The ice-cold Buddhist cultivator?

Who cares? She's not getting involved with either.

The System, on its first mission: "?"

**

After Qingruo ignores all its threats and intimidation, the System finally lowers its haughty head and humbles itself. It becomes considerate in every way, offering her every benefit it can before she even asks, all in the hope that she'll deign to move the mission along a little, so it won't be destroyed by the Main System for failing to carry out its duties.

Completely severed from the original plot, and with a System that knows its place, Du Qingruo settles into a comfortable life with money, free time, and a cat.

One day, in exchange for the chili peppers the System brings her, Qingruo, who can't live without spicy food, agrees to help.

She only has to move the mission along, not complete it, so she'll just give it a little push.

She thinks for a moment, then says lazily, "Let's see his abs."

The System, which has been hoping and praying for this moment, gets so excited that it shows her the whole picture.

Caught off guard, Qingruo instinctively starts to close her eyes. Then, from the corner of her eye, she catches a glimpse of that cold, handsome face and freezes.

Huh?

Isn't that the failed candidate who lives next door and comes over every day to ask her for chili peppers?

And, well, he's pretty ripped.

**

As the eldest son of the Empress, Chu Yansui should have been born to immense power and glory. But after the Imperial Preceptor declared his fate inauspicious, he was sent to a Buddhist temple at the age of three, far from the secular world.

Surrounded by green lamps and ancient Buddhas, bound by countless rules and threatened by deadly schemes, he grew cold-hearted and unfeeling.

Then one day, a young woman moved into the long-empty estate beside the temple's retreat. Her family had cast her out, too. She brought over vegetables she'd grown herself, her eyes bright and smiling. Before he could say a word, she grinned and said, "I'm the new neighbor. Neighbors are closer than distant relatives, so I hope we'll get along."

Before he could refuse, she shoved the basket into his hands and ran off.

As he looked at the dew still beading on the vegetables, the cold lines of his brows softened with a hint of interest.

Later, he pins her snowy-white wrist in his hand. His usually restrained, cool voice turns hoarse. "You can touch my abs, but don't you dare look at anyone else!"

Sweet girl vs. ice-cold man

Theme: A flower will always bloom in your heart.