After They Heard My Thoughts, the Whole Capital Went into an Uproar

{System + Inner Thoughts + Everyone’s Favorite + No Romance + System with Protective Measures + Everyone Can Read Minds}

Su Jingyue, a 21st-century office worker trapped in the 996 grind at a small company, stayed up late reading a novel, overslept, ran a red light, and was hit by a car. She was born into an alternate dynasty and, as soon as she could walk, carried a little stool around to sit among the servant women and listen to gossip. At five, she was bound to a System called the “Gossip System,” and gossip became Su Jingyue’s daily routine. The manor turned into a field of juicy tidbits, and later Emperor Chenxiao appointed Su Jingyue as an eighth-rank Court Annalist. From then on, Su Jingyue and Su Guapi gossiped their way through the court until the Chenxiao dynasty united the four kingdoms.

Su Jingyue: [What? The emperor used a scheme to get the empress to marry him.]

The emperor: Of course. The empress almost ran away.

Su Jingyue: [The Commander of the Imperial Guards beside the emperor is from your eldest uncle’s family.]

The Commander of the Imperial Guards: I thought I’d been abandoned?

Su Jingyue: [What Censor Xu doesn’t know is that his wife chose him from the very start.]

Censor Xu: Wasn’t it Chancellor Su?

Su Jingyue: [Qian Youjin, Minister of Works, embezzled the money for building the river dam and hid it beneath the toilet in his home.]

The Minister of Works: It’s over. Everything is over.

Su Jingyue: [Yan Shijiang, Minister of War, has betrayed the country and is planning to move his whole family to the Kingdom of Zhaoming.]

The Minister of War: Hmph.

Su Jingyue: [The gossip from the other three kingdoms is even more than I can handle.]

The other three kingdoms: We’re just sitting at home, and trouble drops out of the sky.

Su Jingyue: [You get points for gossip. Let’s see what’s in the shop: foreign sweet potatoes yielding a thousand jin per mu, high-yield rice that can be harvested two or three times a year, and things like a powerful pill and a longevity pill from the world of cultivation, and...]