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Why Did I Surrender When I Wanted to Usurp?

share time: 2025-10-15 00:32:36

Modern father Ning Bugui is in despair as his daughter lies dying from a car accident—until a mysterious old immortal drags him into an ancient world, where he possesses a villainous prince bent on usurpation. The immortal promises: if he’s assassinated within a month, he can reset time and save his daughter. To achieve this, Ning deliberately “courts death”: insulting powerful ministers, seizing military power, provoking enemy states. But everything backfires: he uncovers a minister’s treason while insulting him, earning the emperor’s trust as regent; he saves an enemy princess during a power grab, and she falls in love with him; even assassins sent to kill him defect to become his followers. As his usurpation path smooths, his “assassination” goal drifts further away. Worse, he discovers the enemy princess is his daughter’s past life—and only surrender can protect her. How did he, once determined to usurp, end up having to surrender?

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