The mission-taker A Ling is forcibly sent by the system into the world of a novel. After spending ten years of painstaking effort helping the palace maid Shen Yao rise step by step to the position of empress, she finds that the system keeps raising the difficulty of her missions and withholding her rewards, forever exploiting her by dangling the promise of returning to reality as leverage. When she discovers that the system never intended to send her home at all, A Ling breaks with it completely. She wreaks havoc in Fengyi Palace and settles accounts with every palace servant, imperial consort, and member of the royal family who has ever bullied her. A supervisory system arrives to punish the corrupt system and compensates her with an enormous amount of energy, allowing her to return to reality. On a midsummer afternoon, her mother calls and asks her to come home for pork ribs. Beneath the warm sunshine, she finally has a peaceful life of her own.