Shi Yiguang, the legendary beauty Xi Shi from the Spring and Autumn period, was betrayed by her lover Fan Li and drowned in a river after the fall of Wu, becoming a water ghost for a thousand years in complete darkness and isolation. A passing Goddess took pity on her and gave her a system named 001. The system’s mission was for Shi Yiguang to travel through different fictional worlds to collect luck points; once enough luck was accumulated, she would be able to return to her original time and rewrite her own tragic fate. Her first assignment took her into the world of the novel “Love O2O,” where she assumed the role of Bei Shi, an eighteen-year-old girl whose parents had just died in a car accident. She also suffered from acquired heart disease, leaving her pale and weak. Bei Shi was the cousin of the heroine Bei Weiwei, who had been married to the male lead Xiao Nai for six years. Bei Weiwei had originally planned to rent an apartment for Bei Shi to avoid disrupting her marriage, but Bei Shi’s sudden illness forced the extended stay. Because Bei Shi’s father had once saved Bei Weiwei’s father’s life, the family felt obligated to care for her. From the very beginning, Bei Shi was determined to seduce Xiao Nai and break up his marriage, using her beauty and calculated vulnerability as weapons. She understood that Xiao Nai, a self-disciplined and successful game entrepreneur who valued loyalty and perfection, could only be conquered if he was made to abandon his own principles. That night, when Xiao Nai came home and embraced his wife, Bei Shi deliberately came downstairs, feigning shyness, and let out a cry. Xiao Nai saw her and was instantly stunned by her ethereal beauty. Bei Shi then pretended to trip and fall down the steps, injuring her ankle. At the hospital, while Bei Weiwei went to register, Bei Shi confronted Xiao Nai directly. She pulled his tie, brought her face close, and whispered, “I want you.” When Xiao Nai rebuked her for shamelessness, she argued that since her father had saved his father-in-law’s life, she had the right to demand a husband in return. She even brushed her lips against his. Xiao Nai, shaken by both her words and his own undeniable attraction, rejected her forcefully but could not stop his heart from racing. He later told Bei Weiwei to send Bei Shi away to a rented apartment. However, his mind was already poisoned. He began leaving work early to secretly watch Bei Shi at Qing University, where she was now a student. He brought his camera and photographed her, growing jealous whenever he saw other young men talking to her. He tormented himself with guilt, yet every night he dreamed of her. Bei Shi, meanwhile, remained cold and calculating. She had used a false heart condition called “retaining soul angina” to extend her stay, and she deliberately harnessed physical pain to keep her resolve sharp. The system 001 praised her cleverness. After a thousand years of solitude, she had become ruthless and was willing to do anything to collect luck and change her own fate. She also recognized that Xiao Nai reminded her of Fan Li, and she was confident that he would eventually succumb. Bei Weiwei, unaware of the seduction, felt relieved that her husband seemed to despise her cousin, taking his coldness as proof of his loyalty. She even tried to make Bei Shi comfortable elsewhere, believing she had avoided any potential threat. But Xiao Nai’s longing only grew. He obsessed over every detail of Bei Shi, memorizing the way she smiled and the way her eyes glistened. He could not escape the desire she had awakened. The narrative reaches its climax on the sixty-sixth day since she moved out. Xiao Nai wakes from a dream in which he finally accepted her invitation, and he admits to himself that he is madly missing her, unable to resist the temptation any longer. The first stage of the mission is thus set: Bei Shi has successfully planted an irresistible obsession in the male lead’s heart, despite his moral battles. Meanwhile, the underlying tension with Bei Weiwei deepens as her husband’s hidden fixation threatens to destroy their family. The ultimate goal remains for Bei Shi to accumulate enough luck through this conquest to return to her past and change her fate. The story at this point captures the perfect storm of a perfect husband’s fall, a schemer’s cold calculation, and the sorrow of an oblivious wife, all within the framework of a wish‑fulfillment journey with no morals attached.
