The System Forces Me to Be a Virtuous Wife

When I wake up, I've become Lin Wan, a concubine-born daughter of the Lin family in the Great Liang Dynasty, about to be married off to Prince Duan.

A cold System announces in my mind: Follow the "Three Obediences and Four Virtues," or be erased.

Ten miles of wedding finery, envied by all. Yet no one knows that my soul weeps blood day and night behind the vermilion walls.

Gentle, virtuous, magnanimous... I get better and better at playing the part.

Until I watch him take one new concubine after another, until I even forget how to write the word hatred.

Until one day, while sewing clothes for my son, the needle pricks my fingertip.

A tiny spot of red suddenly sears nerves that have long since gone numb.

An unfamiliar word struggles to rise from the wasteland of my memory:

"...Hajimi?"

So I really did come from another world.

But now, in this sprawling manor, in this four-walled world, where can I run?

(Or... do I even want to run anymore?)

---Purple Sweet Potato of Hajimi