099 was a system from the Redemption Department. It discovered that its programming seemed to be malfunctioning… For example, instead of binding to a Host to redeem a target, it had directly bound to the redemption target itself!

Ambitious and mercenary, skilled in flattery and deeply scheming, hypocritical and treacherous, selfish and insincere, ruthless and darkly insane… Starting with a hellish Host, the mission concluded perfectly. Later, 099 summarized the secret to success, writing five bold characters in its notebook:

My wife is the best!

Part 1: Dust on a Branch (Entertainment Industry/Fake Substitute): Ambitious and mercenary actor x Gentle and steadfast older Patron sister

Song Chen’s best role in life was playing the Patron’s beloved white moonlight, so convincingly that the Patron even named her in their will.

Later, the Patron died in a car accident, and Song Chen rose to meteoric heights. Despite having wealth, power, and fame at his fingertips, he never forgot his roots and continued to play the role of the devoted lover. Perhaps even the heavens couldn’t bear to watch any longer. In the eighth year of maintaining this facade while visiting the Patron’s grave, Song Chen himself was involved in a car accident.

When he opened his eyes again, he found himself back at the party where he had first met the Patron. His manager, just as in his previous life, handed him a room key with a threat: “If you want to stay in this industry, be in President Gu’s room by nine tonight.”

Part Two: Thornbird (Modern Urban/Rebirth): A liar full of falsehoods, selfish and self-serving, x a naive, sweet, selfless crybaby.

Zhong Yan was a con artist who collapsed by the roadside and was taken in by a little fool.

The little fool was an orphan, strikingly beautiful, with a stutter and a sweet, innocent demeanor. He was easily bullied into tears, but after a few comforting words, he would cling to you again. He was the easiest person Zhong Yan had ever deceived.

Later, the fool died.

In this second life, Zhong Yan resolved to let her go. But on the night before his departure, a warm, soft body burrowed into his arms.

The little fool, her voice trembling with tears, clumsily pressed his hand against her cheek. “If Zhong Yan is happy, he won’t leave, right?”

Part 3: When the Mist Clears (Campus/Redemption/Secret Crush): Brooding, mentally unstable, tragically beautiful academic prodigy x Tsundere, soft-hearted, self-sabotaging, cheerful puppy

Part 4: Seeing the Clouds Come (Xianxia/Fake Amnesia/Fake Nemesis to Real Wife/Mutual Secret Crush): Hypocritical, adaptable, saintly maiden x Ruthless, capricious, great demon lord

The world believed that the demon lord Cui Bujian had been betrayed by the saintly maiden Yun Que. His spiritual root had been severed, his sword bone carved out, and he had been imprisoned in the demonic realm for three hundred years, vowing eternal vengeance against her.

Yet later, when Yun Que betrayed her master and fled the Holy Palace, Cui Bujian single-handedly stormed the palace with his sword, rescuing a wisp of her remaining soul just as she was about to be crushed to ashes.

Yun Que awoke after death to find herself imprisoned within her mortal enemy’s natal sword.

To save her life, she feigned ignorance. “Who am I? Your sword spirit?”

“I am your master,” Cui Bujian said, his fingertip tracing lightly across the sword’s blade. He gazed at Yun Que, who trembled violently, a smile playing on his lips. “And also your Dao Companion.”

Part 5. Morning Enlightenment (Modern Ghosts/Ghost Marriage): A seemingly cheerful and talkative human with deep-seated cunning and ruthless indifference x A millennia-old vengeful ghost, true to her word, sharp-tongued, misanthropic, and fiercely protective.

Wen Ling, a millennia-old vengeful ghost, was awakened by a summoner. By fulfilling the summoner’s wish, she could possess a mortal body and return to the world, slaughtering the descendants of her ancient enemies.

The woman who awakened her tilted her head thoughtfully. “Can you give me a wife?” she asked earnestly. “Someone who won’t ab*se me, is strong enough to protect me, has plenty of yin energy and underworld currency to share, is good-looking, has a great figure, isn’t in a long-distance relationship… and if we have good chemistry and compatible birth charts, I’m willing to overlook age differences.”

Millennia-old ghost Wen Ling: …?!