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(Fate of Southern Love)

(Episode 2)

Your Highness, are you going to keep watching?

Let's go!

I've already fulfilled my promise to you.

Now you can tell me.

(If he's hiding it this well, something's definitely up.)

What I meant was,

I want Chancellor Lou to make sure I get out of this unharmed.

But from the looks of it,

Princess Jing Yun isn't fully convinced yet.

Do you think that person is Jin Zhu?

I couldn't see clearly.

Chancellor Lou basically runs the whole court.

Even His Majesty has to show the Lou family some respect.

We can't just confront him like that.

Then I'll go find Nan Zhi.

If that really is Jin Zhu,

I won't have to find her another adulterer, then.

Your Highness, you're really sharp.

Watch where you're going!

Are you trying to burn me alive or what?

Please spare me, Your Highness!

(Jing Yun is truly a classic evil supporting female role.)

Supporting female role?

Woman?

Supporting role?

So who's the female lead here?

Take her away.

Beat her to death.

Wait.

(Luo Li)

She's just working to earn her keep.

This is simply a matter of different social roles.

Who gave you the right to decide if someone lives or dies?

And who are you?

How dare you talk to Her Highness like that?

If you're so kind,

why don't you take her punishment for her?

Are you okay, Luo Li?

Is it Luo Li?

No matter your age, gender,

or status in society,

everyone is born equal in this world.

What kind of country bumpkin are you?

Are you trying to seduce Nan Zhi

so that you can become his concubine?

Where I'm from, we practice monogamy.

If you have another woman, that's considered cheating.

You'd get kicked out with nothing.

You think everyone is dying to be the mistress like you?

What are you even talking about?

Time travel?

Nan Zhi, there's something off about this room.

Chancellor Lou was actually with a woman.

They were having an affair.

What if they insist on seeing the face of the woman beside you?

What are you going to do?

Lou Si Yi?

Your Highness, you still made time to visit me

on your wedding night.

That's really thoughtful of you.

I saw the princess consort and Chancellor Lou fooling around

alone in a room after sending everyone away!

Jin Zhu is right there on the bed.

Feng Yan.

Greetings, Prince Ning.

Why is it his personal guard?

- My lady! - Fu Gui!

I finally found you.

What on earth happened?

Something's not right.

Everything here feels off.

Did you find her?

Go check over there!

This plot doesn't make sense.

I'm bored out of my mind at your residence.

That's why I had a chat with Feng Yan.

I don't think you need to

make such a big deal out of it.

That's impossible!

I saw it for myself just now.

It was clearly a woman.

- Are you sure? - I...

But just now,

she didn't utter a single word.

If so,

Your Highness, were you framing me

and the princess consort?

I was just making things up!

I didn't see anything!

Please spare me, Chancellor Lou!

Please spare me, Chancellor Lou!

Please have mercy, Chancellor Lou!

Chancellor Lou?

Your Highness?

Open the gates.

See our guests out!

Nan Zhi.

Nan Zhi?

Chancellor Lou.

Looks like Prince Ning has no idea about the feud

between Princess Jing Yun and the princess consort.

Are you going to let the princess consort walk away like that?

There's no rush.

My lady.

The gates are open.

Everyone is heading out one after another.

Good thing this shrine's been abandoned for ages. No one found us.

We can wait just a little longer.

We'll wait for the guards to change shifts. Then we'll sneak out.

My lady,

did you find out anything about those floating words?

Those words all had missing strokes.

I can only guess them roughly.

Fu Gui, do you trust me?

Of course.

I think

we're characters in a picture book.

What does that even mean?

If Sheng and Dan are the main characters,

then Jing, Mo, and Chou are just supporting roles.

Maybe I'm a side character who dies just after one act.

When the words show up,

that's the plot of the picture book playing out.

How is that even possible?

You're the current princess consort of Prince Ning,

the only daughter of the General of the State's household.

If Prince Ning inherits the throne,

you'll be the future empress.

Even if this is some picture book,

who else could be the female lead besides you?

Lady Luo Li, thank you for saving me.

It's my first time hearing about everyone being equal.

I think you're different from everyone else here.

- I... - Alright, that's enough. You may go.

(Congratulations, Host.)

(You've completed the mission to save the maid.)

(It's a main storyline that Zhou Nan Zhi appreciates.)

(You've earned 200 points.)

(Through this period of point accumulation,)

(you've accumulated 18,000 points.)

(You're almost ready to return to the real world.)

System, didn't you say Jin Zhu

was supposed to be killed by Zhou Nan Zhi tonight?

(Yeah. The plot has gone off script.)

(Jin Zhu was supposed to get caught in bed with someone else.)

(The kind-hearted female lead would comfort her,)

(telling her that purity isn't a woman's shackle.)

(But she pushed the female lead away because she couldn't get it.)

(Zhou Nan Zhi thought she was hurting you.)

(So he drew his sword and killed her.)

(You couldn't stand Zhou Nan Zhi taking someone's life so casually.)

(That also planted the seed for your tragic romance later.)

Didn't you say I just need to take over for the original Luo Li who died,

finish all the storylines,

and accumulate 100,000 points for me to return to the real world?

I've been stuck in here for a whole month.

Everything was going smoothly before.

So why is there suddenly a problem now?

(Every character in the comic should just stick to their roles.)

(They're supposed to just play out the story.)

What the heck is going on?

She's just a disposable side character, aka cannon fodder.

Cannon fodder?

The "cannon fodder" in the text,

what does it even mean?

"Fodder"?

My lady, here's some ashes.

Is "cannon fodder" something like incense ash?

So my whole life

was just a few lines written by someone else.

My fate was already written out.

I can't control any of it.

(Host, once Jin Zhu dies, her storyline will end in the comic.)

(So even if she's still alive,)

(we can still proceed with the plot as planned.)

That won't do.

If she's still alive,

it'll look like I'm stealing her husband.

If so, the ideal female lead would become a dirty adulterer.

She has to die. You need to figure something out for me.

(The system can't directly interfere with the plot.)

(And, you can't break character as the kind-hearted female lead)

(by hurting another character.)

(Otherwise, you'll lose all your points.)

What kind of messed-up rule is that?

She's just a paper character anyway.

But,

I don't have to do it myself.

I've read so many novels and watched so many dramas.

In these dumb and cliché storylines,

it's very easy to make a side character who's hated by the male lead

die on purpose.

Lady Luo, are you okay?

Fu Gui, we have to find a way to get out of Jingdu

and meet up with my father and brother.

- Okay. - Let's go!

Princess Consort, you left in such a hurry just now.

Did you forget something?

Chancellor, if you have any business,

let's talk about it in the morning.

Fu Gui!

How did you find out my secret?

You'll kill me

if I tell you,

right?

You'd only know if you tell me the truth first,

don't you agree?

This isn't the only secret about you

that I know.

Let me give you some advice, Chancellor Lou.

You'd better not act rashly.

Are you saying

that you also know about my plan to rebel?

That's right.

I know everything.

Your Highness, Lady Luo's illness is bizarre.

I really don't know the cause.

I'm afraid she doesn't have much time left.

If you can't cure her, you'll join her in the underworld!

But...

Don't do this.

This isn't the physician's fault.

Li.

Your Highness, our only hope now

is to try an ancient remedy.

If we use the heart's blood of a noblewoman with the right fate,

maybe we can trade her life for hers.

Jin Zhu has the right fate.

No!

There's no scientific proof that using human blood works.

Please don't hurt anyone just for me.

Li, you're the only one who matters to me in this whole world.

Don't say that.

Li?

Lin Lan, announce that the princess consort has suddenly fallen ill.

No one is allowed to visit her.

Bring her back quietly.

Yes, Your Highness.

Interesting.

Princess Consort, what else do you know?

You're no stranger to this pair of underpants, right?

I didn't expect you to have a habit of stealing people's clothes.

I did it just to survive.

I had no other choice.

Just now, when you were undressing yourself,

I noticed the style of these underpants was really unique.

I'm guessing you had them custom-made to hide a secret.

So I took them with me

when Guard Feng wasn't paying attention.

If someone else found out,

your secret will cease to be a secret anymore.

You showed your cards way too soon.

Even if you don't tell me where you got your info,

I can still track down your informants one by one.

And, I can kill them one by one.

Go check over there!

Search the place thoroughly.

Don't skip the Buddhist shrine either.

We have to find the princess consort tonight.

Bring her back, dead or alive.

Yes, sir.

Looks like I don't even need to lift a finger.

Prince Ning will handle everything for me.

Farewell for good,

Princess Consort.

Chancellor Lou, you're the only one who can help me now.

Help you?

I never do anything that doesn't benefit me.

You have to let me walk out of here alive.

Or I'll start screaming right now.

Search thoroughly!

Let go of me.

An uncle and his niece-in-law, half-dressed together

in this abandoned Buddhist shrine?

And, I have your underpants with me.

If anyone finds out,

our so-called affair will spread all over Jingdu in less than two hours.

No matter if it's true or not,

you won't stand a chance against Zhou Nan Zhi after that.

Do you still think saving me isn't worth it now?