After My Strategy Failed, I Sided with the Villain

Jiang Heng has one hundred days to make Crown Prince Xiao Cheng confess his love—or the system will destroy her soul. After doing everything the plot demands, she fails and waits to die in the Cold Palace. Then Xie Wujiu, the ruthless villain she betrayed three times, arrives with medicine and an impossible warning: this is their eighteenth attempt. He has sacrificed years of his life to turn back time for her, while the system has used her longing for home to manipulate every choice and every death around her. Given one final chance, Jiang Heng abandons the Crown Prince’s route and joins forces with the villain. To break the system, expose the court’s hidden fate bureau, and save the people treated as disposable pieces in its plot, she must decide whether going home is worth becoming the person the system wants her to be.