I used to be a senior web-novel editor. Now I'm Shen Moyan, a penniless orphan in the Great Sheng Dynasty, and I'm facing the biggest crisis since I transmigrated.
“Moyan, don't think your uncle is heartless. That wealthy Master Wang may be over fifty, but he's loaded. You'd be his concubine, with plenty to eat and wear. That's better than a young woman like you going out in public to make a living...”
I watched my shameless uncle spraying spittle everywhere and sneered inwardly. I know this plot by heart. Next comes selling myself to save my father... No, I don't have a father to save. I'm simply being sold off.
After seeing off my uncle, whose eyes had been full of schemes, I touched the last jade bracelet my mother had left me and walked into a pawnshop. The ten taels of silver I got for it weren't my dowry. They were my startup capital.
I stood on the busiest street in the capital, Book and Ink Street, lined with bookstores on both sides. I went in and flipped through a few of the most popular storybooks. They were all things like The Fallen Young Master Tops the Imperial Exams and The Noble Young Lady's Secret Garden. Slow-paced and full of stale tropes. To someone like me, a modern person who's churned out ten thousand characters a day and seen every trope in the book, this was... a blue ocean market!
A bold idea took shape in my mind: They write about talented scholars and beautiful women, so I'll write about a live-in son-in-law making a comeback. They write about ladies' grievances behind closed doors, so I'll write about an empress ruling the court!
I would redefine the entertainment market of this ancient world.
It's all broken at the beginning, so it's not easy to break the game.