[Palace intrigue + transmigration into a book + breaking the fourth wall + raising an emperor + fantasy romance + female disguises herself as a man + BJD crown prince]
A timid-on-the-outside, brave-on-the-inside, chatty but softhearted heroine × a sickly, beautiful, gloomy, and wary hero
Xie Qingluo was an ordinary office worker obsessed with raising-simulation games. She died suddenly during a night shift and transmigrated into the novel The Eastern Palace Ascendant.
She became Xie Qingluo, the Grand Tutor’s daughter in the story. The System gave her a portrait and told her to save within six months the abandoned crown prince, despised by the emperor and schemed against by his younger brother, who was destined to die at the Heaven-Worshipping Ceremony.
Every night, the crown prince in the portrait would turn into a stunningly modeled BGD doll. When she gave the doll medicine, the crown prince in real life would recover. When she dressed the doll in fine robes, the fortune stolen from the crown prince would slowly return.
She thought she was only raising a quest item, until the doll started holding grudges and getting jealous. When she said she was going to marry someone else, it bit down on her finger.
Later, a palace coup erupted. The little doll she once molded as she pleased transformed into a sinister, unhinged figure, sword in hand, carving a bloody path through the rebels and stepping over their bodies to ascend the throne.
Staring at the new emperor as he advanced toward her step by step, the heroine finally realized what had happened. “When did you find out?”
The man lowered his eyes and answered unhurriedly, “From the very first time you changed my skirt.”
