As she listened to the system's patient coaxing, Su Fuling's expression suddenly turned cold.
Ever since she had parted with her younger sister last time, she had, for some reason, found herself seeing many things differently upon her return.
The stand-ins she kept, whose faces resembled that man's, looked more and more like eyesores.
And now, upon learning that his poison had been cured, she felt not a trace of anger. In fact...
She could not even be bothered to care whether he lived or died. Her first thoughts were more about her younger sister and how to restore her image in her sister's eyes.
With that thought, a question suddenly occurred to Su Fuling. "Aren't you the Empress System? Once I become emperor, what kind of man couldn't I have? Why are you so fixated on him?"
[Host, weren't you hopelessly in love with him? Why would you think this way now? You don't want him anymore?]
The system's voice rose involuntarily.
Hearing that tone, Su Fuling's gaze grew colder little by little.
"You... seem rather worked up?"
She closed her eyes and began recalling everything that had happened since she came to this world.
She had earned points by completing all sorts of side quests, then used those points to help her complete the main quest more effectively.
But back when she went to the calligraphy and painting studio and saw that man's portrait, it had been the system that prompted her to take a look. There had been no other quest that time.
From then on, she had inexplicably become obsessed with him, while the system plotted and schemed inside her mind, suggesting all the things she could do...
[Host, you misheard.]
Realizing it had misspoken, the system's voice gradually quieted.
And at