short series

Joy in the Ashes

share time: 2026-01-14 00:36:15

Su Xiaotang, a useless modern screenwriter, accidentally travels into her own ancient tragedy script *Joy in the Ashes* while staying up late revising it—she becomes the cannon-fodder princess just sentenced to death by the tyrant Mo Yuan! Worse still, she’s bound to a "Counterattack & Fate-Changing System": she must make the cold-blooded tyrant fall in love with her, or be erased by the plot! To survive, Su launches a "laid-back strategy": using milk tea to skip morning court, tricking Mo into sharing secrets over hot pot, even turning assassins into "palace couriers"… But when she exposes court conspiracies and helps Mo heal his childhood trauma with modern ideas, she discovers the "tyrant" is actually a poor man with hidden tenderness. Unknowingly, she’s turned the "mission" into genuine love amid their funny bickering…

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