Exhausted from an unbearable daily grind on Earth, an ordinary young man falls asleep only to wake up reincarnated inside "Dark Heather," a grimdark fantasy novel famous for its blood-drenched imperial civil wars. Worse yet, he has inhabited the body of the Seventh Prince, a pathetic, universally despised noble destined to be executed in three short years during the first imperial purge. Determined to avoid the guillotine, his master plan is simple: lie low, feign total incompetence, stockpile gold, and quietly slip out of the empire before the novel's canon storyline kicks off. However, the timeline fractures ahead of schedule, thrusting the runaway prince into clandestine operations bridging the gilded Imperial Palace and the criminal underworld....more