The Tyrant's Inner Voice Is Too Loud, I Just Want to Clock Out!

[A timid-looking, melodramatic wage-slave princess VS a seemingly tyrannical, secretly retirement-minded wage-slave emperor]

After working 996 hours and dying of exhaustion in her previous life, Shen Yuwei opens her eyes to find herself a “tribute princess” sent from Nan Chu to Da Yan to marry for peace.

It’s hell mode from the start: her country has been defeated, the emperor is tyrannical, and the imperial concubine makes her life difficult.

She thinks she’ll have to play a palace-intrigue survival game, but then she gets bound to a [Gossip System] that lets her see everyone’s internal commentary!

The arrogant, overbearing imperial concubine points at her and curses?

Comment above her head: [Aah! These high heels are killing my feet! I want to go back to the palace and pick my toes! How is her skin so nice? It’s infuriating!]

The dignified, terrifying empress dowager lectures her with a cold expression?

Comment above her head: [I’m starving. Why isn’t my braised pork knuckle ready yet? This little girl looks like she’d make a good appetizer.]

Most unbelievable of all is Xiao Jue, the tyrant rumored to have slaughtered countless people.

He stands there radiating icy menace, his gaze sharp as a knife. “Behave yourself. I don’t keep useless people.”

Golden comments scroll wildly above his head: [This is so annoying! I’ll never finish these memorials! I want to clock out! I want snail rice noodles! I want to go to Jiangnan and watch pretty girls dance! Whoever wants this emperor job can have it!]

Shen Yuwei: “...” Got it. He’s one of us!

If we’re all wage slaves, this should be easy!

And so the story takes an unexpected turn.

While everyone else fights for the emperor’s favor, she massages his shoulders. While others bring him soup and water, she paints him a rosy picture and talks retirement plans.

Later, the tyrant looks at her with deep affection (which is actually dependence) in his eyes.

“Weiwei, stay tonight.”

Comment in his head: [My wife’s hands are amazing. That massage even fixed my neck! I can’t live without her! Anyone who lays a finger on her, I’ll wipe out their entire clan!]