I Became the Beloved Little Princess by Gossiping

Shen Wanwan, a graduate student in history, pulls an all-nighter working on her thesis and dies suddenly, only to transmigrate into a half-finished palace-intrigue novel as the expendable Fifth Princess: an obscure character without even a name, who dies at the age of six.

When she opens her eyes, she's in a crumbling Cold Palace, with no food for three days. Outside, two matrons plot: “Starve her for two more days, then we can report that she died of illness.”

The good news: she's bound to the [Gossip System], and every secret conversation within a ten-zhang radius appears as a running comment, without missing a single word.

The bad news: if she doesn't listen to gossip, she'll die.

She repeats the matrons' words with an “innocent” air, and a corruption scandal in the Cold Palace shakes the whole court. The emperor summons her, grants her the name Zhao Le, and assigns her a bodyguard.

From then on, she begins an astonishing life of staying alive through gossip and climbing the ranks through gossip. Her icy-faced imperial father carries her to court like a lucky charm, her sister-obsessed crown prince asks her every day, “Who bullied you?”, and even the future regent, who was ruthless and decisive in the original novel, starts looking at her in a very strange way…

System: “Host, your heart rate is rising.”

Shen Zhaole: “Quiet. I'm just a child!”

System: “You said that at five, too. You're fifteen now.”

Shen Zhaole: “…”

She only meant to stay alive by listening to gossip. Who knew that, before long, the whole world would become her field of gossip?

[Gossip System + adored by all + princess's residence + bodyguard + romance later on]