The Substitute Empress Quits: I’ll Spoil My Daughter Myself

When the empress awoke from a six-year slumber, she discovered that another soul had taken over her body, her daughter had been deposed and banished to the Cold Palace, and her nephew was about to be named crown prince.

When Yan Hualing awoke, the memorials on her desk had piled up to the twelfth year of Pingning.

She remembered the sound of Lingshu crying on the night she gave birth. She remembered the candlelight in the sixth year of Pingning.

But for six years, her body had been occupied by someone else. That “her” had wanted to make Yan Hualing's nephew crown prince, cast her daughter into the Cold Palace, and even left behind a book of prophecies. It said she would die at the hands of Prince Duan, while Lingshu would be sent far away to marry into the Qiangrong and leave no bones behind.

Six-year-old Lingshu huddled in her arms and timidly asked, “You're different from before.”

She was the only one who had sensed that something was wrong.

Yan Hualing threw the prophecy book into the brazier. Fate wanted her dead, but she was determined to live. Someone had stolen her body, six years of her life, and her daughter. She would reclaim every inch of what was owed to her in Chang'an.

While investigating her older sister's accidental death ten years earlier, she discovered the notes left by Cui Jingyu, a woman who had transmigrated. Every word was written in blood and tears. The girl, who was about the same age as Yan Hualing, had written “I want to go home” again and again. It turned out the soul that had seized her body for six years was a girl from another world, forcibly abducted by something called the System.

Later, she discovered that there was another soul from another world, and he was the real kidnapper.

Yan Hualing vowed that this time she would protect her daughter Lingshu and her nephew Rui'an, and, little by little, win justice for the poor girl who had been abducted and for the six years she had lost.