Shen Tang transmigrates into the body of a marquis's legitimate daughter and gets bound to a gossip System. She can exchange gossip for all kinds of treasures: beauty pills, antidote pills, fragments of military strategy… She thinks all she has to do is quietly listen to gossip and secretly get rich. Life is perfect.
Until the day her fiancé comes to call.
Shen Tang furiously grumbles to herself: [Scumbag! He comes to propose while secretly carrying on with his cousin, and he wants to scheme for my family's military power too? Ptooey!]
She has no idea that, at that very moment, her entire family has picked up their teacups in unison, their composure instantly shattered.
From then on, the marquis's household goes completely off the rails.
Her father takes her to a banquet. She silently fires off comments: [The one on the left embezzled disaster relief money in Hexi. The one on the right is hiding an imperial robe at home. Dad, feel free to arrest either of them. I'll take care of your achievements.]
Her father keeps a straight face, then leads a raid that very night, cracks three cases in a row, earns the emperor's praise, and leaves the court officials terrified.
Her older brother takes her to meet potential suitors. She looks at the refined young man across from her and shrieks inwardly: [Oh my gosh, a real-life lovesick fool! His fiancée cheated on him! Bro, tell him!]
Her brother's mouth twitches. He quietly investigates the matter for his colleague, saves him from disaster, and gains a sworn brother for life.
Her mother tries the “cucumber slices on your face” trick she mentioned offhand, and soon looks radiant. The noblewomen of the capital are floored and offer a fortune for the recipe.
Her grandmother hears her musings about square dancing and chases her down three streets with a cane. “Sweet granddaughter, tell Grandmother more about that dance that keeps you healthy!”
The whole family silently agrees: this secret must stay buried, and this girl is the greatest blessing their household could ask for.
That is, until the legendary God of War, said to have slaughtered countless people, comes to ask for her hand.
