Her first time carrying out a system mission was to win the heart of Xie Jinbai.
To teach him to understand love and affection, Cui Lingyao married him.
After two full years of marriage, she finally completed the mission and chose to leave the world, but the system informed her that Xie Jinbai's Love Value was full, passively triggering a one-year cool-down period.
Thus, Cui Lingyao was forced to stay for a 'cool-down' of one year.
But within this year, despite his Love Value being at maximum, Xie Jinbai actually decided to marry a concubine.
He taught himself the heartlessness and fickleness of the men of the era.
Cui Lingyao watched the new woman enter the household.
Watched him place another woman on a high pedestal.
Watched him indulge that woman in humiliating her in public.
Until his last ounce of remorse was also exhausted.
In a drowning incident, she died a clean and decisive death.
Her final glance before death.
In the bone-chilling lake water, the ever-calm and rational man lost his composure for the first time, rushing toward her like a madman, holding her with bloodshot eyes, his entire body trembling violently.
—
She had thought everything was over, that they would never cross paths again.
Unexpectedly, three years later, the system came to her once again.
Asking her if she wanted to accept another mission…

Xie Jinbai looked at her and said, "Don't you want to know when Li Wanrong was poisoned, why the Empress wanted to harm you, why I had to marry Li Wanrong, and… who my birth mother really is?"


Cui Lingyao said, "Those are secrets of the Royal Family. This subject is not curious."


'The entire world knows the old Emperor has only one legitimate Prince, yet now he's saying he wasn't born to the Empress…'


'He might dare to speak, but in her current position, she wouldn't dare express any desire to listen.'


Xie Jinbai saw right through her little act and scoffed. "Even if you're not curious, you're going to listen!"


He was determined to lay bare all the secrets of the past.


"Not long after we were married, I refused to marry Li Wanrong again. The Empress, left with no other options, started pressuring me about having an heir. She said if you showed no signs of pregnancy within a year, she would have Li Wanrong brought into the household."


Chapter 67 - Chapter 67: "Don't Be Distracted in My Arms.