The good news: she, Ji Xiantao, has been recognized as the long-lost eldest princess of the Great Qi Empire.
The bad news: her identity as a princess is fake.
The Great Qi Empire's Princess Pinghuan, bearer of the Mystic Saintly Physique, and a certifiable Ninth-Realm Celestial. She should have been a strong contender for the throne, but mysteriously disappeared ten years ago.
Now Ji Xiantao has been brought back. She's nothing but a little beggar, and a half-demon who can't cultivate.
The emperor is gravely ill, his sons are all useless, and the Regent is watching the throne like a hawk.
Ji Xiantao's only purpose is to overthrow the Regent, then return the throne to the rightful heir of the imperial family.
But she isn't willing to settle for that.
At first, she only wants to avoid being discarded once she's served her purpose.
Later, she begins to covet a throne that was never hers.
After the Battle of Linyuan City wipes out the enemy forces, she goes from being a mere mascot to a princess with real power.
With political cunning and a commanding presence, she gradually fills the court with her own followers.
In the end, she forces the Regent to kill himself with his own sword, raises the prince into a puppet, and watches as the old emperor dies in his sickbed, abandoned by everyone.
With every obstacle cleared, she ascends the throne.
She once wanted to name herself Xiantao, meaning “immortal peach,” as a wish for eternal life.
But the old beggar who raised her insisted it was unsuitable, changing “xian” to “xian,” meaning “offered,” and saying she wasn't fated for such good fortune.
But Ji Xiantao has never believed in fate.
Reader's Guide
1. A long, plot-driven story: a cultivation dynasty fused with cyberpunk, a wild mix of ideas and elements, with a struggle for supremacy at its core.
2. The heroine starts out inexperienced and takes some hard knocks. Once she learns to fight for power, she becomes insatiably greedy. The emperor is in the late stages of illness, suspicious and ungrateful, and keeps getting in the way of my bean paste.
3. There is a political marriage to a princess's consort, and there is a romance too, but it comes to nothing.
4. More to come if I think of anything.
A recommendation for my upcoming novel, The Early-Dead Dark Moonlight Became a Paper Doll
The person he loves doesn't seem quite the way he imagined.
Wen Hesheng has someone he loves: Mu Yuan.
She's gravely ill. Her once-lovely face grows more haggard by the day, her skin pale as a ghost whose body has been bleached by the sun.
Only her smile remains unchanged: full of life, sly, and pure.
He pities her as she nears death and grieves her tragic fate.
He hides his love away, thinking he may never meet someone so wonderful again in this life.
Until he accidentally discovers her chat history
“Hey, wanna see some abs?”
The person on the other end sends an indecent photo, and she's saved them in her contacts as “Sweetie.”
Wen Hesheng: “Well, well. Still living it up even when you're dead.”
The confrontation comes to nothing, because she really is dead.
The past is the past. Let it go.
Five years later, Xiyuan Tech releases a new virtual assistant.
Beautiful, with a sweet voice and a bright, lively smile, it even warmly calls people “Sweetie.”
It's Mu Yuan.
She looks just as she did five years ago, only no longer gravely ill.
Through the images displayed by the brain-computer interface, she smiles and softly calls his name.
Wen Hesheng is entranced.
Malice wells up inside him. He reaches out to grab her by the throat, almost wanting to demand why she's so fickle and heartless.
His hand closes on empty air.
Before his eyes is nothing but a stream of cold data.
Her personality is run by code, and every curve of her smile has been precisely calculated.
Knowing all this doesn't stop Wen Hesheng from being unable to bear hearing her call anyone else by that same endearing name.
He uses his power to have the virtual assistant banned, but secretly keeps a backup for himself.
Then, for some reason, he discovers the same backup in the brain-computer interfaces of the Mu family's adopted son, the president of Xiyuan Tech, and a genius scientist. They're all listening to her call them “Sweetie,” over and over.
Wen Hesheng: “...”
Just how many Sweeties do you have?!
Mu Yuan suffered from an incurable illness and died young.
After waking up, she unexpectedly finds herself inside a newly launched virtual assistant in a brain-computer interface made by Xiyuan Tech.
She now faces two major problems
First, she can't let these men, who abuse their power to secretly keep copies of her, discover that she's the real person.
Second, she didn't die of an illness. She was murdered.
The person who killed her might be one of these men.
Theme: Fight for what you want.
We write a lot of bad simulators.
Non-humans cannot practice cultivation. The mastermind behind the scenes specially found a half-demon with a similar appearance. He also took great pains. Even if the protagonist becomes bigger, he will still have tricks.
I was attracted by the pre-receipt copy from the lunatic asylum. Your throne is fine. The next second, mine 🤩
The author's writing is very good, I hope it will become popular