After Returning from the Dead, I Became My Own Replacement

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Blurb:

[Revenge power fantasy, the male and female leads are each other's pawns]

In the fourth year of the Xuanzheng era, Jiang Beichen, the crown prince, sets out to eliminate his political rivals and seize the throne, but unexpectedly reunites with a childhood friend.

He pretends not to know her, but she repeatedly approaches him, willingly stepping into his game.

He decides to use her as a pawn, manipulating her and putting her to work when it suits him. In the end, they are both headed toward the same destination.

"If you're this eager to please me, I'll easily cast you aside. You know that, don't you?" His tone was malicious. He was certain he would never fall for her.

"Is that so?" She smiled faintly. Her deep eyes were as still as a dead lake, and Jiang Beichen could read nothing more in them.

Watching his obsessive, searching gaze, she tilted her head slightly and said, as he wished, "I hope Your Highness will show me mercy." Her words were perfunctory.

He rubbed his cheek against her palm and unconsciously held her tighter.

Unbeknownst to him, he had already fallen into her game and become a pawn in her path of revenge. But that was all he was.

After Lu Yunci died, Jiang Beichen refused to accept the truth for a long time, even summoning Taoist priests and immortals from far and wide.

He imprisoned her soul, preventing her from passing on and forcing her to remain there.

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In the second year of the Jintai era, her soul returned and possessed a palace maid who looked almost exactly like her. Once her memories came back, she made her decision at once.

She absolutely could not let this emperor discover that she was Lu Yunci.

A cool, aloof beauty, like a flower atop a mountain, vs. a deranged, villainous stray dog

Revenge and torment as they use each other as pawns in the first half; forced love in the second. The heroine hates the hero to death, while the hero is madly in love with her. He is consumed by greed, anger, and delusion, and can never have what he wants.

She had never looked down on this dynasty with loving pity. Instead, she looked up at it with a sense of indebtedness.

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"People write lies even in diaries meant only for themselves."

"The terrifying thing about many things is that people don't seem human, while things that aren't human seem human."

To investigate the truth behind a case, Shen Duzhen opened Chi Yu's diary.

"Today, he came back. But he doesn't know that I've locked a robot who looks exactly like him in the cabinet. I told Xiaoyu to stay put and not come out..."

"I have to admit, I shouldn't have built that robot on a whim out of boredom. And I definitely shouldn't have let myself fall in love with him..."

"I'm becoming more and more certain that Xiaoyu is better than him in every way..."

After closing the diary, Shen Duzhen should have been able to follow its entries and piece everything together.

That is, if she hadn't known Chi Yu.

Theme: Stay strong and self-reliant, even in adversity