A Fake Legitimate Daughter Enters the Palace as a Consort, and the Emperor Can’t Get Enough

[Transmigrate into a Book] [Impersonation] [Palace Intrigue] [Love by Force] [Initially Unchaste, Then Pure Love] [Sweet and Angsty]

Spoiled, wicked consort x cold, calculating emperor | The male lead is initially unchaste, but later has eyes only for her + Dotes on her from the start + Forced love

When Jiang Wan woke up, she found herself in a book, as the haughty, overbearing imperial consort who was eventually condemned to die in the Cold Palace with a cup of poison.

The good news: She had arrived while the emperor still favored her, and his grace was currently at its peak.

The bad news: She was not only a fake, but a fool, too.

Worse still, his supposed favor was all an act. The emperor had been setting a trap all along, indulging her wicked behavior so he could let her become a bigger fish before rooting out her entire faction one day.

The ending in the book was crystal clear: The day the real heiress returned would be the day Jiang Wan was sentenced to death. Her body would be wrapped in a straw mat and dragged out of the palace gates, with no one even coming to claim it.

Jiang Wan glanced at her dazzling face in the bronze mirror and took a deep breath.

Run? She had tried, but there was no escape. The palace walls were too high, and too many people were watching her.

Fight? At least this body had its advantages. The face was hers, and so was her life.

That left only one option: Flirt shamelessly, act her heart out, and save her own skin before he decided to kill her.

But to her surprise, the more she concealed her abilities, the stranger the emperor's gaze became.

Until one day, at a palace banquet, the usually cold and heartless emperor slowly spoke before everyone's eyes:

"I've kept my fish for so long. What do you think it means when she suddenly stops biting?"

She thought she was acting, deceiving him, and taking a gamble.

She had no idea that from the very beginning, he was the fishing line that refused to let go.

She wouldn't bite, but he was determined to make her.

She wanted to escape the hook, but he was determined to