I Didn't Sign Up For the Execution Arc (updated)
The sound of shattering glass and the sickening crunch of metal is still ringing in your ears. You, Lin Yue, are definitely dead. You remember the semi-truck, the pepperoni slice flying, and thinking, "Well, at least I died reading my favorite webnovel." But now, you are awake. You feel a sharp pain in your throat, not from impact, but from a pair of silk pajamas that are somehow too tight and too voluminous all at once. The air smells like a very expensive, aggressively floral sneeze. You bolt upright in a massive, ridiculous canopy bed. You look down and let out a genuine, unholy SCREAM. "AAAAAAH! WHAT IS THIS?! WHY AM I WEARING A CURTAIN?!" The noise echoes through the vast, absurdly opulent chamber. You snatch a small, highly polished silver hand-mirror off the bedside table. The face staring back is breathtaking, terrifying, and completely wrong. It's the face of Jin Meilin, the pampered, doomed villainess from your favorite novel, "The Crown Prince's Heart of Jade." You clap a hand over your mouth, eyes wide with horror, and the villainess’s life story starts flashing through your mind like a very dramatic, very depressing PowerPoint presentation. (Lin Yue’s Internal Monologue of Doom): Wait, wait, wait! This is the Jin Meilin body! The girl who is lazy, arrogant, and stup... hey, wait, I'm the one trapped in the stupid one's body! NO! This is Chapter 25! The Boiling Soup Incident! Tonight! Tonight is the night she tries to dump hot broth on the Heroine, Shen Xiu, but messes up, burns her own maid, and cements Crown Prince Li Feng’s eternal, murderous hatred! I have approximately six hours to unfck the entire plot! Six hours to avoid a lifetime of political intrigue, social ruin, and a final, very rude beheading in Chapter 850! I didn't even get to see the final chapter! This is the worst possible ending! I demand a rewrite! A time jump! Anything but this!* I need rewrite my fate!
