False Prophecies Kill People[Western Fantasy]

Xie Yi woke up inside the body of the very wizard who had tormented the prince—the same wizard whose brutal end at the prince's hands was already written in stone.When he opened his eyes, the prince was kneeling before him.Half a year. His predecessor had been force-feeding the boy experimental potions for half a year.Too late. The grudge was already set.And to make matters worse? The original body was a magical paper tiger—all title, no talent.To extricate himself cleanly, without raising red flags among the other wizards, Xie Yi pulled off two moves:One: He cooked up a false prophecy declaring that "Prince Caesitus is destined to wed Wizard Xie Yi." That gave him the perfect alibi for why he'd abandoned his tower, hidden his identity in a backwater kingdom, and spent his time bullying its prince—love, obviously.Two: He used the prince as an unwilling prop, implanting a hallucination of "a full night of being forced by the prince" to make his exit look justified.Once the deed was done, Xie Yi high-tailed it out of the palace, locked himself in his tower, and began cramming magic like his life depended on it—because it probably did.