After Being Reborn, I Took the Ailing Hostage Prince into My Harem

[A transmigrator into a book, a hostage prince with a hidden ailment who is actually a top × a reborn little emperor seeking revenge, scarred by psychological trauma]

On the first day of the new year, thunder rolled across the northern lands.

Nineteen-year-old Situ Ying, the last emperor of a fallen kingdom, died alone in a dungeon beneath the Northern Di palace, his battered body covered in wounds. When he awoke, he had returned to the enthronement ceremony three years earlier.

In his previous life, he was a puppet emperor, manipulated by others until his kingdom fell and he died, bullied by everyone.

In this life, he would seize power, punish the treacherous, and become an unchallenged ruler who would restore his kingdom to glory!

His ministers were invigorated, the people rejoiced, foreign states stood in awe, and envoys came from every direction.

No one knew that the decisive little emperor who dealt out life and death at court lay awake night after night, tormented by memories of his previous life. He feared the dark and the cold, trusted no one, and could not bear to be touched by others, yet desperately longed for the warmth of skin against skin.

His ministers urged him to fill the imperial harem and produce heirs. At a poetry gathering held to select consorts, among all the men and women vying to outshine one another and offering themselves to his bed, Situ Ying chose Zheng Sui, the Northern Di hostage prince said to have a hidden ailment and to keep to himself.

No one knew that Zheng Sui was actually a man who had transmigrated into a book and knew how the story went. To stay alive, he concealed his talents and secretly planned an escape route, waiting for the day Situ Ying's kingdom fell so he could pack up and flee.

But could someone explain to him how, after keeping such a low profile, he still ended up being chosen for a