Synopsis
Yuanzhao Ning was miserable as an overworked office worker in the modern world. Then she transmigrated and hit the jackpot at birth.
She was the only beloved daughter of an all-powerful emperor and his true love, the empress. Born into a life of privilege, with nothing but smooth sailing ahead of her, she wasn't even saddled with a transmigration mission. No debts, no worries.
In those circumstances, the only things that kept her from committing crimes and bullying men and women were the simple conscience instilled by her education and a deep-rooted reverence for the criminal code.
Unfortunately, her aunt, Princess Chang Cheng Yu, was Great Qi's notorious lecher. With her aunt's example always before her, Yuanzhao Ning grew up convinced that at the very least, she couldn't let the ancients outdo her in open-mindedness.
After carefully choosing from among the many candidates, she settled on Nie Shang, her bright and noble Crown Prince brother's handsome study companion, as the first young blade of grass she would trample in her happy adult life.
At last, on the night of her coming-of-age ceremony, she lured him into bed. They tumbled together until the sheets turned crimson, breathless and lost in each other, oblivious to the world... Just as dawn was breaking and she'd drifted into a half-sleep, a sudden beep sounded in her mind.
"Check-in successful!"
The System finally arrived...
"Sorry, Host, I got stuck in traffic. I'm assigning your transmigration mission now. Help the sunshine heroine of this formulaic romance novel win the love and devotion of the male lead, the Crown Prince, the second male lead, the Crown Prince's study companion, the third male lead, the young marquis, and all the other male supporting characters! Failure will trigger the world's will to erase you!"
Yuanzhao Ning was thunderstruck... What the hell was this System talking about?
She was lying in Nie Shang's arms, skin against skin, both of them completely naked. She turned to meet a pair of smiling, bewitching fox eyes, dodged his passionate kiss, and cried out in dismay:
"Um, well, put your pants back on. You can go now."
As Nie Shang's tender gaze gradually turned sinister, Yuanzhao Ning had no idea yet how deep a thorn she had planted in his heart.
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By the time she tracked down the heroine, Xu Mingyao, and went out of the palace to invite her into the story, Xu Mingyao was skillfully demonstrating how to butcher an ox with a long, slender boning knife at the biggest restaurant in the capital.
"What? Be Crown Princess?" Xu Mingyao washed her hands and looked at her in confusion.
"Oh, you can be an official's wife or a marquis's wife too. Take your pick."
The sunshine heroine waved her off without hesitation. "I'm already married. My husband is gentle, attentive, and utterly faithful. Since you spent money to come here, I won't report you for disrespecting the Crown Princess. Now please leave!"
With the heroine refusing to do her job, Yuanzhao Ning was fretting like an ant on a hot pan. The System, delighted to make things worse, came up with a terrible idea:
"Host, why not become the heroine yourself?"
"What the hell are you talking about? If you hadn't shown up late, the plot wouldn't have gone this far. Nie Shang hates me now, okay?"
The System had no shame. "A love full of hate makes a story more exciting."
"But the Crown Prince is my brother!"
"Not by blood, not by blood."
"The young marquis is a rough, burly type. He's not my thing."
The System started to sweat. "There's plenty to explore in the right kind of taboo romance."
"...Where's your ancestral grave? I'd like to do some exploring too."
After becoming the heroine, or perhaps even before that, Yuanzhao Ning's fate as the emperor's beloved daughter unknowingly slid toward an unpredictable abyss...
Reading guide:
A dazzling true princess x all her devoted, vicious loyal followers
Theme: Women resisting the rules imposed on them.
