I'm Nobody's Stand-In, Your Majesty, Show Some Respect

[Transmigrating backward through time + a sense of fate + push-and-pull tension + devoted love + fictional setting]

* Cold, unhinged emperor + bewitching substitute consort

Good news: I transmigrated. Bad news: I transmigrated backward.

Bai Jinshu transmigrated into the imperial palace and became a substitute consort for the emperor’s beloved white moonlight.

“I did fall in love with him, but he only loves someone else through me.”

“I think of you every day, but I hate myself for thinking of you every day.”

Beneath a sky full of snow, she bowed and kowtowed three times across the palace grounds, all so she could leave him.

He humbled himself as emperor, kneeling outside Changsheng Hall for days and nights, just for the chance that she might return.

But when Bai Jinshu transmigrated again, she finally understood: there was no substitute. I am you, and you are me…