Selling Essays at the Brothel? The Regent Begs Me Not to Raise My Prices

Shen Qingluan transmigrates into an age of chaos. From the start, she is a princess of a fallen kingdom, reduced to being a famous courtesan, with her first night set to be auctioned off tonight!

A hellish start? No! Armed with modern game theory and a photographic memory, she crushes the competition with an overwhelming advantage!

In this male-dominated age of chaos, she turns a pleasure house into a "shadow cabinet" that controls the fate of the Seven Kingdoms!

[Humiliated by the regent, you invoke the Nash equilibrium and turn around to sell a "poisonous plan to save the kingdom," earning a fortune of one hundred thousand taels of gold!]

[You take over a pleasure house on the verge of bankruptcy, introduce futures trading and blind boxes, and turn the powerful men who came to buy pleasure into obedient suckers!]

[You train delicate dancers, teach them Morse code and lip-reading, and build "Sky Net," an intelligence network that terrifies the emperors of the Seven Kingdoms!]

[You give a few pointers to a down-and-out scholar. One offhand strategy for governing the state gets him top marks in all three imperial exams, making him your most powerful mouthpiece at court!]

When all the powerful people under heaven think she is a plaything, things take a very different turn:

Hostage prince from an enemy kingdom (future tyrant): Sister, I took back the throne. Could I come back to "Heavenly Fragrance Pavilion" tonight and grind your ink?

Minister of Revenue (once a mere account-keeping maid): Master, as you instructed, the economic lifelines of all Seven Kingdoms have been cut off.

Regent Xiao Jingheng (her former enemy): I offer my entire realm as your betrothal gift. I only ask that Miss Shen take back those words: "The highest bidder wins"!

Shen Qingluan fans herself with a round fan and looks down upon all under heaven:

"Don't get the wrong idea. I'm not interested in love. To me, your kingdoms, wealth, and lives are nothing but chips on my chessboard."

"Even from a pleasure house, I can make you understand what it means to

win a war of a million soldiers with nothing but a silver tongue!"