The Workaholic Holds the Script for a Tragic Romance [GB]

Xie Zhanyan is a workaholic, but after getting into a car accident while saving someone, she ends up in the hospital and is temporarily bound to a system to keep her alive.

System: Your mission is to win over the female lead and her family, make them suffer emotionally and physically, and earn 100 Male Lead Charm and 100 Suffering Points to get a life-extension ticket.

Xie Zhanyan: ?

System: S-sorry, I... I bound myself to the wrong person.

The real Host is the gorgeous man in the room next door, currently being emotionally manipulated by the female lead.

Xie Zhanyan: Heh.

Turns out her world is a melodramatic CEO romance where the male lead has to suffer heartbreak and anguish and go through all kinds of emotional manipulation before he can find happiness with the female CEO. And she is merely a cannon-fodder CEO in the novel, whose family business is acquired by the female lead and becomes one piece of her commercial empire.

What the hell! She works nine to nine, six days a week, only to make someone else rich!

The System is unstable. Before falling asleep, it tells her to keep a close eye on the plot and let things take their course.

Xie Zhanyan: Sure. Easy peasy.

Mission: Complete the slap scene to increase the suffering.

Xie Zhanyan: Bullying the weak? What kind of values are you promoting?

Then she saves the male lead and tears into the female lead right there!

Mission: Complete the green-tea male supporting character's frame-up scene to lay the groundwork for the female lead's remorse.

Xie Zhanyan: Encouraging crime? Making someone atone?

Then she saves the male lead and sends the green-tea supporting character to prison!

Mission: Complete the scene where the male lead takes on the female lead's younger brother's debt, preparing for the female lead's change of heart.

Xie Zhanyan: Adults are responsible for themselves!

Then she saves the male lead and helps the debt collectors do their job!

Later, when the System wakes up, it is utterly bewildered and nearly has a breakdown.

What is this? The plot has gone so far off the rails that even its mother wouldn't recognize it!

The male lead is watching short dramas in Xie Zhanyan's arms, the female lead's company has gone bankrupt, her family is homeless, the girl he once loved is in prison, and the green-tea supporting character is buried in debt...

System: That's not how you're supposed to do the missions!

Xie Zhanyan: Oh. I'll be sure to keep that in mind next time.

System: ...

*

Wei Yan awakens to his past life and is reborn.

Unfortunately, he can't escape the Heavenly Dao's control and is forced to follow the plot. The thought of the scumbag heroine feeling a little guilty about him in the future disgusts him, but he has no way to change anything.

Then one day, at the hospital, just as the scumbag heroine is about to slap him again, some random passerby suddenly appears, saves him, and beats her up.

Wei Yan regains control of his body.

He discovers that whenever Xie Zhanyan is around and the plot gets disrupted, he can regain control of himself.

So he goes to great lengths to seduce Xie Zhanyan.

Who knew she was a pure workaholic with a totally unconventional way of thinking, intent only on growing her company and having no interest in romance?

But he still succeeds.

Later, he secretly asks Xie Zhanyan what she likes about him.

Xie Zhanyan: You're the best partner for building a business together.

Wei Yan: ...

Theme: Reject harmful values