Lazing Around in the Soul-Locking Palace: Executing the Dog Emperor Without Consequences

[Ancient Chinese Fantasy + Palace Intrigue + Face-Slapping and Taking Down Scumbags + Treasure Hunting and Restoring the Kingdom + Mind Reading + Xuanhuan] After the fall of the previous dynasty, Yun Li is the “only” surviving member of its imperial family. She is raised in the home of a farming family. When she is fifteen, her adoptive parents send her to a brothel with tears in their eyes, hoping to supplement the family income. That night, a mysterious man in black arrives. He pays a fortune and specifically requests that Yun Li play the zither for him all night. The next day, she enters the Great Luan Imperial Palace with a “mission” and embarks on a life of unimaginable misery. Before she leaves, her adoptive father tells Yun Li that the tyrant emperor is the enemy of the Yun family. Her sole purpose in life is to kill him and avenge the Yun family's blood feud. On her first day in the palace, she gets distracted while playing the zither in a dream and presents the emperor with three feet of white silk from the start. Then, after damaging the empress's imperial zither, Yun Li is not only sentenced to a hundred strokes of the cane, but also thrown into a mass grave to feed the wolves. In the end, she is confined to Soul-Locking Palace... Born with the destiny of a phoenix, she can turn even a twig or a strand of silk into a one-string demonic zither. Her eyes blaze red, allowing her to enter dreamlike illusions at any time. She can summon three feet of white silk, command beasts to pay homage to the phoenix, and unlock the power to read minds. There's nothing she can't do. She endures unimaginable horrors in the palace, endless pursuit in exile, and deadly escapes in which she steals treasures along the way. Yun Li is afraid, but she never gives up. After deciding to lie flat, she rises again with blood soaking the white silk and continues stumbling across the land, stepping over corpses on her quest to find treasure and restore the kingdom. Only at the very end, when she sacrifices herself to open the treasure vault that will restore the kingdom, does Yun Li finally understand that she was never the “only” one. With no other choice, she slits her own throat, and the entire peaceful age crumbles...