Mofa Gongzhu de Xiao Fannao

A woman awakens as Athanasia, the doomed princess of a novel she remembers from her previous life. According to the story, Emperor Claude, her own father, will eventually order her death. Armed with that knowledge, she plans to stay unnoticed, gather enough valuables to escape, and avoid Claude for as long as possible.

The plan fails when father and daughter meet years earlier than they should. Claude is dangerous, unpredictable, and nothing like the simple villain Athanasia expected from the book. Instead of indifference, he begins treating her as family. That change offers hope, but it also makes the future harder to read, and Athanasia must survive a palace where every altered event can create a new route toward the ending she fears.