The Walls of the Capital

In the 19th year of Tianqi of the Great Yin Dynasty, Crown Prince Xiao Chengji was deposed and imprisoned on charges of colluding with powerful ministers and plotting usurpation. Three days later, the deposed prince died by self-immolation in the cold palace. But no one knew he had died nine times. Xiao Chengji possessed the ability to 'reload and rebirth'—whenever he died in a desperate situation, time would rewind to a critical juncture, with his memories intact. The first time he was deposed, he thought he could turn things around with his intelligence, only to drink poisoned wine. The second time, he tried to ally with his second brother, but was betrayed on the spot and beheaded. The third... the fourth... the ninth. Each death allowed him to see one more step of the chess game. Now, waking up for the tenth time, he no longer rushes to turn the tables. Instead, sitting in the cold palace covered in ashes, he patiently and calmly begins to dismantle—the person sitting on the dragon throne, his biological father, just how big a game he had laid out. This empire was not something he wanted to seize; it was step by step that the other party forced him to sit on that throne.