I’m Definitely Not Princess Shanyin

Only after watching her younger brother be sentenced to death before the court did she understand that there was no going back. And only after stumbling through the meat grinder of power with the art of doing nothing did she realize that simply staying alive was itself an escape from death. The mad beauties of history books were all just clients and contractors to her. She never wanted to be a hero. She only wanted to bring along the people she cared about and live happily ever after, beyond the ending.