After Becoming the Mary Sue Heroine

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Born into a noble family in ancient times, Xie Zhao is quite pleased with her status.

Her mother is a grand princess, her father a duke of the first rank and guardian of the state, and her uncle, the emperor, treats her like his own daughter. Before she even comes of age, he grants her the title Yuanjia and an estate of ten thousand households. She has it all.

She thinks she's already been given the script for a winner's life. Then one day she meets someone who has transmigrated with a livestream System and learns that she's the heroine of a Mary Sue novel. In the future, she'll be tangled up in more than a hundred thousand words of love and hate with five male leads.

When Xie Zhao finds out who the five male leads are, she scoffs. Pei Heng, the Assistant Minister of the Court of Judicial Review, is indeed famous throughout the capital and exceptionally talented, but in all sixteen years of her life, she's barely had anything to do with him!

Her Crown Prince cousin did grow up with her, but she doesn't want to spend the rest of her life shut away in the imperial palace. Why would she return his feelings?

Ling Feng was her childhood playmate and classmate, but he's been far away on the northwestern battlefield for five or six years, and she hasn't seen him once.

As for the mysterious, otherworldly State Preceptor, whom she can only catch a glimpse of at the annual rooftop rites, why would he fall for an ordinary person like her?

And Shadow, the leader of the Imperial Guards, is someone she's only heard about but never met. That romance is even more ridiculous!

For now, she's more concerned about the transmigrator with the livestream System, who's planning to take her place. Luckily, she can hear the System's mission announcements. That counts as a golden finger, right?

What Xie Zhao doesn't know is that the Court of Judicial Review's Assistant Minister, whom everyone sees as a man with a bright future, will one day rebel and side with a foreign power to take her for himself.

Her usually clear-headed and wise Crown Prince cousin will also turn dark one day and confine her in the Eastern Palace.

The upright, passionate young general will one day use political intrigue at court, all so he can take her and flee to the ends of the earth.

The loyal Shadow, with devotion carved into his bones, will betray his principles and protect her with his life.

Even the mysterious State Preceptor, who stays apart from worldly affairs, will sigh to her, "Such is the time, such is fate!"

Reader's guide:

One-on-one + multiple aspects of one person +

An easygoing, alternate-world story. All official positions, systems, customs, and clothing are made up. If anything confuses you while reading, check the comments. The author has explained things there. If it isn't to your taste, we'll meet again in another story~

Theme: True love can't be stolen! Believe in love