“Hezhen will try to prevent the annulment to avoid a bad ending penalty. Or he might try to kill you himself to complete his awakening.”
“Kill… me?”
“And if you try to break free from the scenario, bugs will immediately pursue you.”
“……”
“Once targeted by a player, there’s no escape. Whether he faces a bad ending or you become a sacrifice for his awakening.”
“So no matter what I do, I die?”
I shouted in anger.
My life as Louibel Ajester had always been peaceful.
But recently, I faced betrayal by my fiancé, or rather, by this world, an unexpected terminal fate, and now threats from system cleaners.
‘Why do I have to die like this?’
I felt a profound sense of injustice.
“That’s why I’m offering to help.”
“And who are you?”
The question I had long wanted to ask.
A man who seemed to be free from the system, with no words hovering above his head.
Not a player, yet able to see Hezhen’s system window like me.
A man who dissolved the system’s coercion and disrupted the flow of the scenario.
“Well, to use their terms…”
Anselot pondered for a moment, then burst into a dry laugh, introducing himself.
“The most terrible and malicious bug?”
Under a grand chandelier, a tall, handsome man was sipping a champagne glass.
The man was a [System Administrator] responsible for the Ajester Imperial Palace and the capital, Brillanta.
He was a pivotal figure of the system, overseeing the [System Cleaners] of this region, ensuring the world flowed smoothly according to the system’s order.
“Hmm.”
With a slightly annoyed murmur, he brushed his hair back from his forehead.
Moments ago, the signals from the Cleaners he was connected to had abruptly cut off.
This meant they had all been killed.
“Filthy vermin, crawling into the palace.”
He didn’t even have a chance to find out who had killed them.
“Who could it be?”
He lazily murmured, scanning the people in the banquet hall.
Foreign dignitaries, Ajester nobles, and members of the royal family, including Emperor Christine Joanna Ajester.
Above people’s heads were familiar blue name windows displaying their names and statuses.
No one particularly stood out.
Yet, the audacious vermin who invaded his territory might be nonchalantly sipping wine here.
And the [Player] this time, why so incompetent?
The thought of Hezhen, unable to achieve even a simple awakening, prompted a disdainful click of his tongue.
Then his eyes fell on Louibel, the only one with a pink name window.
The powerless Third Princess of Ajester, intended to be the sacrifice for the Player’s awakening.
Beside her was Prince Anselot Luenhart from the Kingdom of Luenhart.
Maybe they had stepped out for some fresh air.
He had never heard of any friendship between the two, so they must have grown closer during the recent visit.
The pair standing side by side indeed looked well-matched, but…
His brows furrowed as he watched them in silence.
It was an unwelcome sight.
Louibel, the sacrificial offering, was with another man, not the Player.
‘That useless Player is about to lose his sacrifice.’
Thinking of Hezhen, who couldn’t even handle the tutorial stage awakening scenario, he let out an annoyed sigh.
“Looks like I’ll have to step in and help with the awakening.”
He muttered with evident reluctance and handed his empty champagne glass to a passing servant.
The Male lead Always Seduces Her with His Beauty (Matriarchy)
Xin Jiao Zhou is the leader of the world’s premier sect. She has just experienced betrayal from all sides, was poisoned in an assassination attempt, and faced death squad attacks while the poison was taking effect. After finally clearing out the scum from her sect, she was drugged again while trying to detoxify.
After waking up from a night of unconsciousness, she gained a “beautiful and kind-hearted” husband.
Xin Jiao Zhou: “???”
He fell ill.
She came to see him, bringing breakfast.
As she put down the breakfast and was about to leave, his hand slipped while holding the spoon. “Clank!”
She turned around upon hearing the noise.
He looked up at her, his eyebrows drooping: “My hand… has no strength.”
“Shall I… feed you?” she asked tentatively.
He opened his mouth cheerfully: “Ah—”
Thinking she was drowning, he jumped in without hesitation to save her, but nearly drowned himself. In the end, it was she who swam over to rescue him, giving him air underwater.
After emerging from the water, his ear tips turned red. He lightly brushed his cheek, tucking his sideburns behind his ear, revealing delicate, pink-tinged ear tips. He lowered his gaze, too embarrassed to look at her.
Xin Jiao Zhou: He’s truly beautiful, kind-hearted, and adorable.
A certain someone when disciplining subordinates behind the scenes: “If they don’t obey, just kill them.”
What’s that? She might already have someone she cares about in her heart? A certain someone: Find out who it is, kill them, and then there won’t be anyone.
What? She met a man by the riverside? What? That man even hurt her? A certain someone: Whichever hand hurt her, chop off his entire arm.
Love at first sight without realizing it, gradually falling in love, slowly getting closer…
Family and national grudges, schemes and desires, good and evil, crime and punishment, she and he face the future together, seeking justice with passion!
A naturally dark female lead who could accidentally destroy the world but is actually an honest person VS a weak, pitiful, and helpless but skilled fighter, beautiful white-cut black male lead
My heart is not of stone, how steadfast is your love? — Tao Yuanming “Imitating the Ancients (No. 3)”
— Reading Guide —
Cold female lead & dramatic black lotus with hidden yandere traits male lead
