You’re Eight Years Old, the Emperor’s Eldest Grandson, and You Call Me a Doomed Emperor?

Well, this crab demon is eight years old, living in the Great Qian Dynasty, and has just become the emperor’s eldest grandson. The System for Future Rulers Who Lose Their Kingdom has arrived twenty years too early! [At seventeen, you poison your grandfather and put your father on the throne.] [At nineteen, you sleep with your stepmother and poison your father.] [At thirty-five, the government is corrupt and social tensions are rising. Your beloved general launches a rebellion, the imperial army is routed, and you are about to become a ruler who loses his kingdom!] At the Great Qian investiture ceremony, Liu Shao, only eight years old and newly made the emperor’s eldest grandson, looks at the prompts before him, then glances at his grandfather, who is holding the ceremonial crown and smiling warmly. He also looks at his parents standing nearby, watching him with eager anticipation. Liu Shao can’t help but fall into thought. Well... this System seems to have shown up a little early. I poison my own imperial grandfather? And I poison my own imperial grandfather? How could that be possible? But as one task prompt after another appears, he seems to understand...