Springtime in the Capital: The Little Mistress’s Pampered Daily Life

In Beijing during the Yongle era, flowers bloom in abundance while undercurrents swirl beneath the surface. Shen Mingxi, the second young lady of the Anyuan Marquis's household, becomes the capital's cleverest gossip enthusiast thanks to a “Capital Gossip System” that dropped out of the sky.

The youngest legitimate daughter in the marquis's household, she has a doting father with command of the troops, an elder brother in the Embroidered Uniform Guard, and another in the Hanlin Academy watching over her. Her life, cherished by the whole family, is as sweet as honey. Her one little hobby is to get in on the gossip firsthand, listening to all the capital's family chatter and palace secrets. The System not only broadcasts the latest gossip in real time, but also unlocks skills like “photographic memory” and “super hearing” as she follows the stories, making her all the more unstoppable.

Then, one day, she bumps into the cool-faced General Lu Jingyuan on a street corner. He went to war at thirteen and has won countless battle honors. To the noble young ladies of the capital, the mighty General Weiyuan is an unattainable “iceberg,” yet he alone regards gossip-loving Shen Mingxi differently. He sees her climb a tree to chase a juicy story and take a clumsy fall; he sees her use “super hearing” to eavesdrop on palace secrets; he sees her use her quick wit to help her family avert a crisis. Before long, he goes from finding her “interesting” to truly caring for her, becoming her personal protector without even realizing it.

“This gossip is too dangerous. I'll shield you from it.”

“Anyone who dares touch my girl will have to answer to the spear in my hand.”

From the comic tale of the Shuntian Prefect's son getting jealous over a love rival, to the shocking secret of the Third Prince's affair with the northern tribes; from the undercurrents at a palace flower-viewing banquet to life-and-death showdowns at the autumn hunt, Shen Mingxi uses her Gossip System and the confidence of being her family's darling to “break through one crisis after another” in the capital's tumult.