Jiang Lisheng gained awareness and was bound to a system.

The system claimed to be the “Salted Fish System” and earnestly explained that she was the pitiful and powerless female lead of an old-school abusive romance novel. She absolutely must—never fight back when hit, never talk back when scolded, and lie flat whenever trouble comes her way. These were the sacred principles of being a salted fish. She must never, like the previous hosts, slap faces just for the sake of it and end up derailing the plot.

“…” Jiang Lisheng paused. “So you’re saying I should be a complete loser?”

System: “No, I mean we should strive to be a proper salted fish.”

Got it.

Still wants her to be a loser.

—

That same day, her biological parents, who had just taken her home, pointed at her and cursed her out. “If we’d known you’d turn out this useless, we might as well have taken that pig at the village gate as our daughter instead!”

Later that night, Jiang Lisheng dragged that pig back under cover of darkness, left it outside her parents’ bedroom door, and declared that she was giving her name to the pig.

System and parents: ???

—

After that, the entire Jiang family was convinced their newly recovered daughter had lost her mind.

Her fiancé, who had never liked her, sneered, “If you’re so impressive, why don’t you go get engaged to my third uncle instead of me?”

Before he could finish, Jiang Lisheng grabbed his phone and called the uncle. “Hello, want to get married?”

There was a brief silence on the other end. “Who is this?”

“Your nephew’s fiancée,” she said. “Your nephew wants me to marry you.”

Fiancé: …

Fiancé’s uncle: …

The system weakly chimed in: [Host, do you still remember you’re supposed to be a loser… ah no, I mean, a salted fish?]

Jiang Lisheng responded: She had backed down, behaved, and been perfectly obedient—she did everything they told her to do. So how could she not count as a loser… ah no, a salted fish?