Activating Plan B

"Boom, boom, boom..."

The desolate courtyard of the Bai residence was silent.

Jun Jingyi seemed to have thrown caution to the wind. His expression resolute, he stared intently at the young woman before him.

Bai Ruoli: ...

For a moment, she felt as though thunder was roaring across the sky inside her head.

She stood rooted to the spot, utterly dumbfounded.

Even though she had lived another life.

Even though she had seen so much.

At this moment, she still...

It was a long while before she came to her senses. She looked strangely at the handsome young man before her, her expression complicated, and remained speechless for a long time.

She wanted to say something, but hesitated.

No matter how hard she racked her brains, she could never have imagined that things would unfold like this today.

Why?

Wait... how dare he?

A marriage proposal!

He had actually proposed to her?

The man who had killed her in her previous life, the bastard she hated most in this one, had just proposed to her?

"Phew..."

In that short span of time, Bai Ruoli felt as though a storm had swept through her mind.

After a long while, she forcibly suppressed her anger and spoke in a flat voice.

"Young Master Jun, please don't joke with me."

"I'm not!"

Jun Jingyi hurriedly said, his tone utterly resolute.

He had been thinking about this for days.

Without a system or a cheat,

the thought of going up against a daughter of fortune, a protagonist who had returned through rebirth, would never have crossed his mind.

But he couldn't just sit around and wait for death, either.

After reading so many novels, he had learned one thing.

A villain was a villain, dogged by bad luck. Even if he did nothing, he would somehow end up angering the protagonist.

Much less one who had returned through rebirth for revenge, with a clear target in mind.

He didn't want to die, but he couldn't fight her, either. That left him with only one option.

Marry her!

This was the answer Jun Jingyi had arrived at after thinking it over again and again.

This was a novel for female readers, after all.

He was a man, and the protagonist was a woman. Marrying her was undoubtedly the best option.

Once they were family, as long as he didn't deliberately court death, there probably wouldn't be much of a problem.

Besides, there was good reason for him to think this way.

After all, he had calculated the timing.

At this point, the female protagonist had yet to rise. Here in the Bai family, she faced difficulties at every turn and was as stifled as could be.

And as for his own status...

The Jun family.

His father was a marquis of the Great Yan Dynasty, and he was the Jun family's legitimate son, destined to become a marquis himself.

Given his status, as long as he married the female protagonist, he could definitely save her and help her escape to freedom.

That venomous woman of the Bai family would never dare harm her again, either!

And the female protagonist wasn't ugly. In fact, she was quite pretty, so he wouldn't be losing out.

Later, he could treat her better. At worst, he could put her on a pedestal and worship her like an ancestor.

He refused to believe that, after all that, the female protagonist could still harden her heart and kill him.

Although things like her memories of her previous life were... a bit troublesome, as long as his heart was sincere, nothing would be a problem!

Wasn't this a perfect plan?

Bai Ruoli was speechless once more...

Looking at the resolute Jun Jingyi before her, she found it even harder to understand.

Looking at him, as though he had cast life and death aside, so devoted that he would marry no one but her in this lifetime...

This couldn't be right!

What on earth had she done at this point in time to make Jun Jingyi so infatuated with her?

After thinking for a long time,

she gave up.

She couldn't remember.

But she absolutely couldn't accept this proposal, and her thoughts were in a mess right now.

After fobbing him off with a couple of words, she saw him out and drove Jun Jingyi away.

"This..."

Standing outside the residence, Jun Jingyi looked at the Bai residence before him, his expression complicated.

Did this mean his proposal had failed?

To be honest, he really had thought this was the most perfect plan.

But...

It seemed he really couldn't pull it off.

Then...

It was time to activate Plan B.

Destroy the dynasty.

According to the formula for novels aimed at female readers,

aside from the female protagonist's own qualities, a big reason she had been able to rise all the way to the top was that he had happened to encounter a prince of this country who was concealing his abilities and biding his time.

She had done the prince a favor.

And then, step by step... she rose!

No, for the sake of his own life, he couldn't let that happen.

But right now, he didn't know which prince would appear next.

As far as he knew, this country was called Great Yan.

It had eight princes.

But only three of them were truly capable: the first prince, the fourth prince, and the eighth prince.

The first prince had the greatest advantage, though, so according to the formula, it couldn't be him.

That left the fourth and eighth princes. There was no rush; he could take his time investigating.

It would be even better if he only had to deal with one prince.

If nothing else worked, there was only the final plan: destroy the country. He wanted to see what the prince would use to harm him once the country was gone.

With the vast amount of modern knowledge in the library in his head, a backward feudal dynasty...

But before that, he needed to carry out two plans at the same time.

On one hand, he would start gathering funds, building up a force, and investigating the princes' backgrounds.

On the other, he would continue trying to improve his relationship with the female protagonist.

It would be best if he didn't have to go that far!