[Told entirely from the heroine's perspective, with no male lead or fixed romantic pairing. The story focuses on her personal growth, with very little romance, though she will have emotional entanglements with various characters, both positive and negative.] Cheng Anyi had no place in the original timeline of this world, until she arrived with a System and transmigrated into the body of the Third Miss of the Marquis of Jian'an's household.
The System's main quest is to rise to power through palace intrigue. But why does the System give her more the more she talks back, and reward her more generously the worse she suffers? And why does it unlock the ability to cultivate immortality later on?
The palace is a place of perilous intrigue, where all kinds of fantastic arts take turns on the stage. Could even the cold, ruthless emperor be caught up in it all?
Even within the palace, System items let her build her own influence beyond its walls. These towering palace walls may not be her cage after all!
(To be continued...)
* The heroine does not transmigrate with another person's soul. The original timeline splits into a new parallel storyline under the influence of the System and outside forces. This is the storyline in which the heroine lives.
* The System's restrictions are minimal, while its rewards are varied and useful. The story mainly focuses on the heroine taking initiative and acting according to her own understanding of the System, the world, and time and space. The ability to cultivate immortality is unlocked later.
* There are no actual consummation scenes. The relevant chapters explain how this is achieved.
* The dynasty is fictional.
* Long dialogue is formatted with quotation marks and line breaks. When one person speaks across multiple lines for ease of reading, the earlier lines have no closing quotation marks; only the final line does.
From the current point of view, the highlight of this book is not the cool writing style at the beginning, but the high-precision plot that unfolds step by step, and the rhythm becomes more compact as it goes on. The emperor looks like a real emperor rather than a love saint, and the time traveler looks like a time traveler rather than a game NPC. The heroine has a clear view of the emperor and fully realizes that the status is not equal. There is no CP setting between the two, but it is more real. The emperor is a very conventional emperor. He is very exploitative of others and may be tempted. However, in an unequal relationship, if the person in power does not make an effort to get closer, it is impossible for love to develop. The heroine is not the cruel and ruthless character in traditional cool novels, nor is she someone who shows blind compassion. She will make reasonable use of others, and will save others when she sees their lives hanging by a thread, even if there is no actual benefit. It's very interesting to get along with the system. It's like pretending to be a pig to eat a tiger. On the surface, it is a bit heartless, but in fact, the ideas are more thorough. There are no stereotyped villains in the book. Human nature is complex but the depictions are vivid, and there is no sense of being a villain for the sake of being a villain. Like many books, the plot of Gu is written down, but I feel that the writing in this book is particularly innovative, so I won't go into details without spoiling it! I'm just reading this for now, and I'll comment after I finish reading it~ [Sending my heart]