From the Start, I Steal Fan Xian’s Chance, Leaving Chen Pingping at a Loss

For eight years, he was the bastard most despised by Emperor Qing, abandoned in the Cold Palace. On the day a raging fever nearly killed him, he finally heard the gears of fate begin to turn...

Ding! Trait Plundering System activated!

“Plunder the gray rat’s [Tenacious Vitality]!”

“Steal the eunuch’s [Ability to Read People]!”

While others were still scheming and fighting over power, Li Chengyuan had already turned his fate around by plundering traits!

A vile servant who skimped on his medicine? Have a rat carry the stolen silver beneath his rival’s bed and kill with borrowed hands!

The empress sent assassins after him? He turned the mute old eunuch’s iron palm against them, leaving the killers dead under mysterious circumstances!

“Emperor Qing, did you think tossing me into the Cold Palace would erase your stain?”

He clenched the Blacksteel Token, a cold glint flashing in his eyes. “Your schemes, your martial arts, even your throne, sooner or later, will all be mine!”

Sneak into Fengqi Palace to steal dragon salvia wood, then refine it into incense to nourish his spirit;

Play the fool as a study companion at the Imperial Academy, secretly learning the students’ [Mental Arithmetic] and the instructors’ [Vast Knowledge and Powerful Memory];

Uncover the secrets hidden in his mother’s keepsake, unlock the [Ye Clan Crest], and unmask the enemies who wiped out her family!

At his first meeting with Fan Xian, he saw through the transmigrator’s identity at a glance and promptly stole [Three Hundred Poems]!

At a night banquet in Prince Jing’s residence, one rendition of “Bring in the Wine” rocked the capital. “Heaven has endowed me with talents, and they will surely be put to use” left the Crown Prince green-faced and the Second Prince frozen in a smile!

He offered Chen Pingping a token of allegiance, exposing a Northern Qi sleeper agent with a single sentence;

In a match of wits in the Black Room, he casually let slip the Inspectorate’s highest secrets, terrifying the King of the Night so badly that even his wheelchair trembled!

From an abandoned prince in the Cold Palace, at the mercy of others, to a poet-prince who stirs the winds of change...

Li Chengyuan licked the blood from his fingertip. “This palace is my hunting ground, and you... are all my traits!”