[Palace intrigue + Transmigration + Empowering wish-fulfillment story + Clear-headed heroine]
When the modern-day orphan Ruan Sheng transmigrates into the body of an unloved eldest daughter of a marquis’s household, she is forced to marry into the imperial palace in someone else’s place just to survive, and must navigate a deadly world of palace intrigue.
Who could have guessed that, because her face so closely resembled the emperor’s cherished first love, she would catch his attention as soon as she entered the palace?
Everyone else mocked her as nothing more than a stand-in, but Ruan Sheng didn’t care.
What difference did it make whether she was a stand-in? It wouldn’t stop her from becoming empress!
But… why was the supreme ruler of the realm, dressed in imperial robes, crying and begging her to show him some affection?