I Really Don't Dare Offend the Empress Dowager (Transmigrate into a Book)

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Also known as: What It's Like to Call a Woman Two Years Older Than Me "Mother" Every Day; The Cliche-Filled Novel I Transmigrated Into Makes No Sense; Every Day, I Have to Cling to the Young Empress Dowager to Stay Alive

Blurb:

Qin Zhao transmigrated into a melodramatic historical Mary Sue novel.

In the original story, she was the young prince of Prince Qi's household, raised in the countryside by the old prince from childhood and brought back to the manor at the age of sixteen.

In reality, she wasn't the old prince's son at all. She was the emperor's "biological" child. Only when the emperor was close to death did he bring her from the manor back to the palace and appoint her crown prince.

Having read the novel, Qin Zhao knew she wasn't the protagonist. She was a cannon-fodder crown prince who fought the male lead for a woman and the throne.

The third prince, the male lead, was the one destined to rule the world. Meanwhile, the original character, a cannon-fodder, used her status as crown prince to target the male lead, who was still a prince at the time, at every turn.

In the end, the original character not only lost her position as crown prince, but the male lead also exposed her as a fake crown prince who had "stolen someone else's identity." Worse still, in the finale, the male lead, now emperor, turned her into a human swine and tortured her to death...

But she was going to fight the male lead for a woman?

Yet this "cannon-fodder male supporting character" was clearly a woman too!

To avoid being turned into a human swine by the ruthless, scheming male lead, Qin Zhao decided to cling to someone powerful first.

So she set her sights on the woman who would later hold power over the court and rule from behind the curtain.

Uh, but shouldn't she call her...

Mother?

And one who's two years older than her, at that?

Qin Zhao: Mother, your child doesn't want to enter the palace and become a prince.

Gu Junran: Mm. Move into the palace tomorrow, then.

Qin Zhao: ...

Qin Zhao: Mother, your child doesn't want to be emperor.

Gu Junran: Mm. Your father might die tomorrow, so prepare to ascend the throne.

Qin Zhao: ...!

Later, Qin Zhao became emperor.

Qin Zhao: Empress Dowager, your child doesn't want to fall in love with you.

Gu Junran: What a coincidence. I don't like you either.

Qin Zhao: ...

P.S. The heroine is a young prince at first, and the story is slow-paced.

#Highlight#: The heroine, Qin Zhao, is a crown prince who has "stolen someone else's identity" and is not related to the emperor by blood. This story will comply fully with the site's rules. There will be no plot that violates them before the relationship between the two is permitted.

Content Warnings:

#Both heroines have no prior romantic experience#

#Woman disguised as a man#

#Slice of life, slow-paced#

#An entirely fictional alternate universe, with transmigration into an alternate-universe book. Readers who care about historical accuracy, please stay away.#

#If any of these warnings are deal-breakers, feel free to drop the story.#

Theme: Finding the will to survive in adversity