You’re Eight Years Old, the Emperor’s Eldest Grandson, and You Call Me a Doomed Emperor?

[At seventeen, you poisoned your own grandfather and put your father on the throne.]

[At nineteen, you had an affair with your stepmother and poisoned your father.]

[At thirty-five, corruption has engulfed the government and social tensions are mounting. Your beloved general has raised an army in rebellion. The imperial forces are routed, and you are about to become the ruler of a fallen kingdom!]

At the Great Qian investiture ceremony, Liu Shao, only eight years old and newly named Crown Prince's eldest grandson, read the prompts before him, then glanced at his grandfather, the emperor, who was holding the coronation robes and smiling warmly.

Then he looked at his parents, watching him expectantly from nearby.

Liu Shao couldn't help but fall into deep thought…