【Both leads are clean-bodied. This one's hella safe—buckle up, folks!】
Princess’ Manor, Great Jin Dynasty
“Desmond, I’m burning up.”
The girl lay sideways on the beauty chaise, her cheeks flushed, a hazy glaze in her eyes. Her voice was soft, sweet like a summer breeze brushing past your ear.
Right next to her was a man, earnestly kneading her feet.
Hold up! This guy’s name is Handsome...
*cough cough*—nah, his actual name's Desmond Hawthorne.
He was the first pathetic side character Evelyn Carter ran into after landing in this mortal world, having just been kicked out from the heavens.
She’d been here less than thirty minutes, tops, and had already figured out Desmond had ulterior motives.
First, he tried to get her drunk. Then, riding on her tipsy state, he sneakily lit some aphrodisiac incense. Clearly planning to push her over the edge with lust and then force her into something she’d regret.
Evelyn wasn’t stupid. Tricks like that? Please—petty human games.
Desmond cooed, “If you’re feeling hot, Your Highness, why not take off your outer robe? There’s no one else around—I made sure to send the maidservants away.”
Evelyn fluttered her lashes, giggling coyly. “Wouldn’t that be a bit… inappropriate?”
He leaned closer. “Why would it be? You and I share mutual affection. What’s improper about love?”
Grabbing her soft, fair hand, he fondled it without shame. “Princess, your hand is just... so soft. So white.”
Evelyn: …
Alright, this was officially crossing into full-blown harassment.
She smiled sweetly as she tugged her hand back. “Always saying sweet things to charm me. But words like that? Fun to hear, not to believe.”
Desmond, apparently eager to prove he was serious, swore loudly, “Heavens witness, my heart is true! If I ever wrong the Princess, may lightning strike me dead!”
“Oh? So you'd die for me, huh?”
“I would die for Your Highness without hesitation!”
Her bright eyes narrowed a little, crimson lips parting just a bit. Her expression was flushed with desire, but there was something unreadable behind her smile.
She gestured at him with one dainty, almost lazy curl of her finger.
That look—pure seduction, like it came naturally. Desmond's reason evaporated. He lunged toward her, all but drooling.
Too bad for him—just as he reached her, her gaze turned ice-cold, and in one swift move, she stabbed a dagger right into his chest.
No hesitation. No mercy.
Smiling like a sweet little angel, she murmured, “Then go ahead and die.”
“???”
The pain bloomed across his chest. Desmond’s eyes shot wide, as if he couldn’t believe what had just happened.
With a loud thud, he collapsed backward, spurting blood all over the floor.
Evelyn got up, grabbed a wet cloth, and wiped the blood off her hands with clear disgust on her face.
Beep beep beep!!!
【Wha—Host?!】
A little cartoonish voice blasted into the air above her, fuming and panicking：【Did you seriously just kill him?!】
Evelyn tossed away the bloodied cloth, calm as anything.【Why? Was he the seduction target?】
【Of course not!】
Walking over, she kicked over the incense burner, scattering ash all over the floor. 【Then what’s your deal?】
【Host! I haven’t even released your mission yet, and you're already stabbing people?? Is that... normal behavior?!】
She let out a short laugh, arms crossed tightly under her chest.【You’ve got nerve asking me that. What’s the meaning of dumping me into this hellhole anyway?】
One moment, she was still chilling as a revered fox spirit in the heavens. The next, she'd been shoved into this fragile human girl’s body.
And right off the bat, she had to deal with a creepy guy who couldn’t keep his hands to himself. Booze, knock-out incense—what a classy welcome.
Any average girl in this world would've been ruined already.
Someone like that? He deserved to die. She considered it cosmic justice, honestly.
It wasn’t until she’d finished airing her frustrations that the little system thing remembered its job and quickly started introducing itself."
*╹▽╹*
Dearest host Evelyn Carter, welcome to the Sweet Romance System! I’m your customer service assistant, Buddy, here to serve you!"
"A Sweet Romance System?"
"Sure, messed-up love stories have their charm, but mutual affection? That's where the real magic happens."
"...What?"
Evelyn blinked. "Are you... actually a legit system?"
"ヾ
◍°∇°◍
ﾉﾞ Totally legit, host!"
"Alright then, when can I return to the Celestial Realm?"
"You can't right now."
"Why not?"
Buddy responded, "Host, you don’t remember? Up there, you barely lifted a finger and already ticked everyone off. Didn’t you sneak Taishang Laojun’s elixir? Sneak a few sips of the Jade Emperor’s heavenly brew? And maybe... take Marshal Tianpeng’s underwear—"
"Okay, STOP! Yes, I took the elixir, yes, I drank the wine... but I swear I didn’t touch that pig’s underwear! Don’t slander me!"
Buddy kept nagging, "The list of your misdeeds could go on for days..."
So that was it—being sent down here was punishment?
Ten thousand years of cultivation, all down the drain?
Seeing Evelyn’s face cloud over, Buddy tried to comfort her. "HQ has given you a task. Complete it and you’ll still have a shot at getting back."
"What task?"
"Win over your assigned target and rewrite this messy tragedy into a sugar-sweet love story."
"Oh, a ‘sweet story’? You mean dreamy romance and mutual pining?"
Her eyes sparkled mischievously. She grinned, the flair of a villain lighting up her face. "Well lucky for you, us foxes are experts in the art of seduction."
"Huh—wait, what??? Σ
⊙▽⊙）a??"
Evelyn stroked Buddy’s dog-head avatar with an impish smile. "Let’s get started."
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Instance Name: “The Princess vs. Four”
Year: 211, Jin Dynasty. Victoria Arlington, the Princess of Jiashan, got entangled with four different men. First came Desmond Hawthorne, a stage star in Bianjing; she flirted hard. Then she got obsessed with scholar Vincent Anderson and forced him into marriage. After divorcing him, she traveled west to wed Arthur Sandoval, the Desert King, but soon started cheating with her own guard, Colin Hayes. When the affair was exposed, she was executed by quartering, her corpse left in the wild.
Everyone called her shameless even after death.
She thought each man was her true love and gave her all to them—only to end in ruin.
"Wait... four men?"
"Yup, four!" Buddy glanced at Desmond’s corpse on the floor, correcting himself. "Well, there’s three now..."
This cursed plot... historical/forced/1VN/high heat?
That brought up a lonely little concern.
"So... who’s my target? Don't tell me it's one of the remaining garbage men?"
"Of course not. Host, your target is: Graham Bennett!"
Ding!
Evelyn paused. A hidden storyline popped into her mind.
"Notice: Target Graham Bennett profile loaded."
Identity: Young General of the Jin Dynasty
Profile: 190cm / 19 / Age: 20
Attack power: ★★★★★★★★★★
off the charts
Persistence: ★★★★★★★
Strength: ★★★★★★
Loyalty: ★★★
Craftiness: ★★
Current affection: 0%
Rewarded cultivation: over 1000
Suggested strategy: "Forceful conquest"
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