Captured the Moment I Took Human Form? The Regent's Cherished Darling!

[Cross-species romance + laid-back heroine + mind-reading (optional) + sweet, hilarious romance + nurturing]

In her previous life, Gu Gugu was a seven-orifice spirit mushroom. In this life... she’s still a coward.

Her parents died just after she took human form. Shivering with fear and desperate to earn a living, she sold herself into the residence of the Regent, a living King of Hell.

She gets room and board, and can even use his influence to take revenge. Gu Gugu thinks this is a pretty good deal!

And so a strange little maid joins the Regent’s household:

While her master reviews memorials, she dozes beside him and drools.

When her master receives imperial tribute, she takes a bite, decides she doesn’t like it, and puts it back.

When assassins attack, her master hasn’t even drawn his sword before she’s already fled a mile away...

Xie Yuan originally planned to toss this foolhardy little thing to the tigers. But how did keeping her around become so addictive?

Even when she finally gets revenge and packs a little bundle to retire in the countryside...

The powerful man who rules the court blocks the doorway, his eyes red. “I’ve set aside a place for you, right in the imperial palace. You be the empress, and I’ll be your bodyguard. How about it?”

Gu Gugu sighs. Being an empress is harder than being a mushroom!