By the time she returned to the Prince Mansion, Hua Manman still hadn't quite come back to her senses.
She found that the longer she spent in this world after transmigrating, the more real everything felt.
Too real to be just a book.
She had once naively believed that *Palace Intrigue* was the entirety of this world.
But now, it seemed that everything described in the book was merely the tip of the iceberg.
There were so many things the book had never mentioned.
For example, Princess Ningyang's past.
Or the true reason for the Imperial Ancestral Temple's collapse.
Hua Manman couldn't resist asking the system.
"Is this world really a book? Or is this just a parallel world that's very similar to *Palace Intrigue*?"
The system gave a very firm reply.
"This is the world derived from *Palace Intrigue*. Alternatively, you could consider *Palace Intrigue* to be a microcosm of this world."
Hua Manman: "If it's just a microcosm, can the original plot be changed?"
