The Real Heiress Just Wants to Die Quickly

World-weary, life-hating heroine vs. a puppet emperor trapped by circumstance The true heiress has severe depression and lies flat, waiting to die, but His Majesty won't let her. Short version: Heroine: I don't want to live. Hero: I don't want to die. Full version: After transmigrating through time and space, Song Cai became the true heiress in a true-and-fake heiress story, abused and mistreated by everyone. She thought she had been handed the script of a true heiress making a triumphant comeback, but never dreamed she was actually a sacrificial pawn. No matter how carefully she plotted, she still couldn't escape her fate of becoming a stepping stone for the fake heiress, Shen Mingzhu. The relatives who shared her blood told her again and again: Shen Mingzhu was a cloud in the heavens, while Song Cai was nothing but mud on the ground. Mud belonged in the mire. If it hopped around, it would only offend people's eyes. Reborn into her childhood, just thinking about reliving the heartbreaking betrayal and abandonment of her previous life made her feel there was nothing left to live for. She only hoped for a quick death. As a stepping stone for the fake heiress, Shen Mingzhu, the Song family was so afraid that her presence might stand in their beloved daughter's way that she didn't even need to do anything herself. All she had to do was lie flat whenever the Song family tried to harm her. She waited eagerly for death to arrive, praying that in her next life she would have nothing more to do with the Song or Shen families. But again and again, a small shadow dragged her back from the brink of death. He gave her food, saved her life, and protected her, even if it meant being crushed to pieces. At first, she thought it was her own shadow, a manifestation of her damned will to survive. As the days went by, she was shocked to discover that her little shadow had an Adam's apple. Not only that, his profile looked strikingly like the little emperor from her previous life, who had been cuckolded by the fake heiress, schemed against by her lover, Prince Jing, and ultimately died by setting himself on fire. She had no desire to live and only wanted to quietly disappear from this world. Yet the little shadow kept dragging her along as she coasted to victory. He resolutely pulled her up to the peak, placed a phoenix crown on her head, and told her she deserved all the best things in the world. The hero and heroine are both reborn. The young emperor is a ghost in the early chapters, and the story contains supernatural and fantastical elements. The hero saves the heroine. I've read plenty of stories where the heroine saves the hero, so I wanted to write a story about a hero who searches high and low to save the heroine, going through life and death for her. Theme: Everyone suffers. Cherish the present.