The Villainous Film Empress (1)
A little rich girl dedicated to saving the world X A paranoid, dark, and vengeful film empress
【Sun Wan never expected to die here.】
【As her life faded, she seemed to hear a sigh. In her final moments of sight, a slender figure slowly approached…】
“The female lead is dead?”
Song Xuyi frowned as she read the last two paragraphs of the plot summary.
“Yes.”
The System’s angry voice sounded in her mind: “The female lead, Sun Wan, is dead. The villain, Zhao Qingyu, won a total victory. The worldline1 has been severely distorted and was judged by the Main God to be a major error…”
“The Main God initiated a rewind, returning us to a time before anything happened.”
“We only have one chance,” the System said grimly. “If we fail to protect the male and female leads and change the world’s ending this time, the Main God will obliterate everyone in this world.”
“Including you, who is currently in this world…”
…
Song Xuyi pressed her lips together and opened her eyes.
She was in the middle of an exam hall. Everyone around her was writing furiously. The large room was silent, filled only with the shhh, shhh of pen nibs scratching across paper.
Song Xuyi, asleep at her desk, was the only odd one out in this race against time.
She glanced at the test paper, then at the clock on the blackboard, and saw that half an hour had already passed.
The System’s voice chimed in right on cue: “The glasses the Task-doer is wearing are the latest technology developed by the Song Group. They can bypass all signal blockers. Just tap three times on the left side of the frame, and the answers will be automatically projected onto your retina…”
Song Xuyi froze for a second, her hand stopping mid-way to adjust her glasses—
She had woken up in this body half an hour ago to find she had lost her memories. Before she could even get her bearings, the System had captured her full attention.
The System told her that her name was Song Xuyi, that she was a Task-doer for small worlds, and that she had lost her memory due to an unknown attack while entering this world.
The System’s authority was limited. It couldn’t say if Song Xuyi would ever recover her memories, much less did it know her identity or origins. It only knew this: the Task-doer had to accept the Main God’s commission and, with the System’s help, save the small worlds that the Main God had judged to be “deviating from their worldline trajectory.”
The worldline of this derailed world revolved around the female lead, Sun Wan, and the male lead, Song Jun.
Sun Wan and Song Jun were childhood sweethearts2 who grew up together. Sun Wan was infatuated with her neighborhood gege,3 Song Jun, but Song Jun only had eyes for the villain, Zhao Qingyu. It was only after his pursuit of Zhao Qingyu failed that Song Jun finally noticed his neighborhood meimei4, Sun Wan, who had always been trailing behind him…
The two went through a series of dog-blood5 plotlines, from “willingly being a substitute” to “running away heartbroken with the ball” to “chasing his wife to the crematorium.”6 Just as they were about to reach the happy ending set by the Main God, the villain Zhao Qingyu suddenly interfered, framing Song Jun’s company. To save his company, Song Jun was swamped with work day in and day out. Sun Wan, who already felt insecure in their relationship, suspected him of having an affair. While tailing him, she tragically fell from a cliff and died at the bottom…
Sun Wan’s death caused the worldline to collapse, and so the Main God sent Song Xuyi.
The Main God hadn’t treated Song Xuyi poorly. Although her body in this world was just a passerby,7 her status was incredibly distinguished—she was the daughter of the main family of the Song Group, where Song Jun worked. A typical rich young lady born with a golden spoon in her mouth.
The Song family’s businesses spanned film, real estate, and technology. They were, without a doubt, the number one chaebol.8 For such a wealthy family, developing a pair of glasses for cheating was no difficult feat.
Song Xuyi quickly came back to her senses.
She pressed her lips together, took off the glasses, and set them aside. Picking up her pen, she began to write calculations on her scratch paper…
Even though she had lost her past memories, a voice from her subconscious seemed to tell her: Be a person of integrity. Cheating is a violation of one’s moral bottom line.
The System went silent for a moment, apparently not expecting Song Xuyi to choose to do the problems herself.
But it quickly spoke again: “To prevent deviation from your character settings, does the Task-doer choose to receive the body’s memories now?”
“Let’s wait until tonight!”
Song Xuyi pursed her lips and lowered her head to continue her calculations.
She discovered she quite liked this feeling of being immersed in solving problems. This test was very difficult for her, yet the moment she looked at the paper, she felt as if every cell in her body had been mobilized, focused on one thing only: to do well on the exam.
Could this be related to her lost memories?
Soon, the bell signaling the end of the exam rang.
Along with the bell came the System’s anxious prompting: “Warning, warning! Song Jun has already returned to the country and is about to meet the villain, Zhao Qingyu!”
After turning in her paper, Song Xuyi froze at the System’s words. Just then, the Song family’s driver walked in and began packing her textbooks into her schoolbag. “Miss, where are we heading now?”
Song Xuyi glanced at the bag: there seemed to be some colorful things tucked between the books…
But now wasn’t the time to check.
Song Xuyi looked away. She once again reviewed the plot summary in her mind, and after quickly skimming the opening, she made her decision. “Let’s just head home early!”
The plot summary was only a thousand words or so. It just said that Song Jun met Zhao Qingyu by accident and developed feelings for her, which gradually deepened over successive encounters. But the summary didn’t specify what kind of accident it was.
“Should we drive around the city and look for them?” the System suggested.
“No need.” Song Xuyi shook her head and followed the driver to the car.
“Song Jun just got back. It’s highly likely he’ll choose to go home. The Song family clan all live together in the south of the city, and there’s only one main road that leads there…”
Compared to wandering aimlessly through the city, the probability of running into Song Jun on the way home was much higher.
The System said no more, clearly convinced by her reasoning.
It was currently rush hour, and the car moved slowly. As they approached an intersection, rain began to fall from the sky.
The light turned red, and the car stopped before the crosswalk. Song Xuyi gazed at the crowd crossing the street, and her idle glance suddenly froze, locking onto an old woman among them.
The old woman’s hands were empty; she had no umbrella. Her clothes looked simple and clean, but her eyes were unfocused. She walked with a somewhat unsteady gait, a sign hanging from her neck, and she was muttering something under her breath…
The old woman quickly fell a great distance behind the others, just as the red light turned green.
Cars blared their sharp horns. The old woman’s body trembled, her expression filled with fear and panic. She stumbled and started running right into the middle of traffic…
The System seemed to be saying something, but Song Xuyi could no longer hear it. A sharp pain shot through her head, and an image of a similarly frail, stumbling figure flashed through her mind. Almost subconsciously, she twisted the car door handle and rushed out.
—But someone else was faster.
The back door of a small car ahead opened, and a woman with a slender, graceful figure emerged. She wore a simple red slip dress, revealing slender, snow-white arms and legs. The stiletto heels on her feet didn’t hinder her pace. Holding a black umbrella, she walked briskly, yet swayed with an enchanting grace. Her back alone was enough to inspire a thousand fantasies of her charm…
The woman quickly reached the old woman’s side. Song Xuyi, a step too slow, breathed a sigh of relief. She took the umbrella her driver handed her and was about to go help when she saw the old woman’s eyes fly open in terror as she let out a piercing scream. “A ghost! Ghost…”
The old woman shrieked and shoved the woman backward—
Song Xuyi’s pupils contracted. She instinctively lunged forward and caught the stumbling woman.
“Thank you, Xuyi.”
The woman steadied herself with Song Xuyi’s help and turned to look at her. Her voice was lovely, like an oriole emerging from a valley,9 and when she said Song Xuyi’s name, it inexplicably took on a certain tender charm.
Song Xuyi’s face flushed red.
This feeling… was so strange!
Meeting the smiling warmth in the woman’s eyes and looking at her flawless face, as bright and beautiful as the full moon, Song Xuyi’s breath caught. She felt as if a frantic little deer had been stuffed into her chest, pounding wildly as if it would leap right out.
“It’s good that you’re alright.”
Song Xuyi heard her own voice come out dry and hoarse. Her gaze fell to the corner of the woman’s eye: there was a tiny red mole just below the outer corner, like a lone flower petal scattered on snow, adding an indescribable allure to her perfect face.
Is this the female lead, Sun Wan?
Song Xuyi took a deep breath, trying to calm her uncontrollably racing heart.
The plot summary said the female lead had a red mole at the corner of her eye. And since Sun Wan was always following Song Jun, she would naturally know Song Xuyi of the Song Group’s main family…
It was just that the summary only mentioned Sun Wan was kind and righteous; Song Xuyi never expected her to be so beautiful.
“If you have something to do, you should go.”
Having not yet received this body’s memories, Song Xuyi didn’t dare interact with the woman any more than necessary. She let go after the woman was steady and looked toward the old woman, who the driver had led to the side of the road. “I’ll take her home…”
“I’ll leave it to you, then!”
The woman smiled at Song Xuyi. Her gaze lingered on Song Xuyi’s face for a moment, her eyes dimming slightly, before following Song Xuyi’s line of sight to the old woman. Meeting the old woman’s fearful, evasive, and guilty eyes, the woman’s lips curved, her smile growing even more brilliant and radiant.
The woman really did seem to be in a hurry. Without much more small talk, she quickly returned to her car.
Song Xuyi quietly breathed a sigh of relief. She didn’t know why, but perhaps because the woman’s beauty was too dazzling, she had felt inexplicably nervous standing next to her, even though the woman seemed gentle and kind…
“Don’t be alarmed, ma’am. Your family will be here soon…”
Song Xuyi gathered her thoughts and forced a smile to soothe the old woman, who clearly had symptoms of Alzheimer’s and had forgotten her past. At the same time, she listened as the driver called the contact on the old woman’s sign. From the other end of the line came a cold male voice: “This is her grandson, Song Jun. Where are you now?” At those words, the smile on Song Xuyi’s face slowly froze…
A thought suddenly flashed through her mind, and her body stiffened. She subconsciously looked in the direction the woman’s car had driven off, and the System’s words in her head further confirmed her suspicion…
“Task-doer, you’re amazing! You interrupted the first meeting between Song Jun and Zhao Qingyu right off the bat!”
The System’s voice was full of admiration.
Song Xuyi was stunned for a moment, then gave a stiff twitch of her lips.
Suddenly, she didn’t know what kind of expression she was supposed to make—
Who would have thought that this gentle, radiant, and helpful beauty was not the female lead, Sun Wan, but the scheming villain from the plot, Zhao Qingyu?! The one who secretly framed the male lead Song Jun’s company and indirectly caused the female lead Sun Wan to fall from a cliff!
Only in hindsight did Song Xuyi remember that the plot summary said Song Jun suddenly took notice of Sun Wan because she bore a three-tenths resemblance to Zhao Qingyu. Now, Song Xuyi understood—that resemblance was probably because they both had a red mole at the corner of their eye.
And the persona of the body Song Xuyi now occupied was that of Zhao Qingyu’s die-hard fan,10 one who had been crazily following her since she first debuted…
Recalling her own behavior in front of Zhao Qingyu, a chill went down Song Xuyi’s spine. Zhao Qingyu couldn’t have seen through me, could she?
……
LP: Re-translated on January 06, 2026
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