Your Unethical Navigation App Is Here to Tell Your Fortune

(Bonus chapters updated alongside the rankings. New novel, I Conquered a Yandere by Taking Photos, is now available)

Enthusiastic, theatrical little Taoist x reserved, devoted Imperial Guard

Q: What should you do if you wake up as someone who has defaulted on a debt?

A: Thanks for asking. The System says my credibility score is zero, but I can raise it by doing good deeds. Although the Great Zhou reveres immortals and Taoism, unfortunately, there is no spiritual energy. All my fellow Taoists are old-school psychologists, or con artists.

But me, your friend, am a genuine fortune-teller!

So, what is it you seek, good sir? Give me your birth details. One quick calculation, and I have your answer!

Client: Thank you, Taoist Master Shang! Thank you for helping me find my son...

Shang Bei: (with an enigmatic look) It is my duty.

System: [Credibility +10]

Fugitive: (gritting his teeth) Just how did you find me, you wicked Taoist?!

Shang Bei: (with an enigmatic look) I have my own secret methods.

System: [Credibility +100]

With this navigation System at my disposal, becoming a living immortal is as good as done!

But as the saying goes, peeking into Heaven's secrets always comes at a price. To avoid seeming too uncanny, Shang Bei decides she should cover her tracks a little.

Of course, she gets to decide what that price is. All she has to do is name it.

But why is this Commissioner of the Imperial Guard so easy to fool?

Shang Bei: This reading will cost extra.

Xia Nan: I'll pay.

Shang Bei: This reading requires a top-grade magical artifact.

Xia Nan: I'll give you a sacred offering from the Imperial Ancestral Temple.

Shang Bei: This reading will cost you years off your life.

Xia Nan: (nervously) Can you take years off mine?

Shang Bei: ...That won't be necessary.

Oh well. Since someone seems sincere enough, this living immortal will graciously... accept him as a believer!

But when Shang Bei finally saves up 10,000 credibility points and looks into the System's way home, she accidentally takes things too far.

“It was my fault.” Xia Nan sat by her bed, fists clenched tight, his voice hoarse. “I must have made you waste so much of your magic that you lost all your powers.”

Shang Bei: ...Well, actually... I can get my powers back!

Xia Nan's eyes narrowed. “How?”

Shang Bei thought, This is bad. If she starts talking about offerings and worship again, Xia Nan might build shrines to her all across the Great Zhou.

She stammered for a long while, then simply reached out and lightly touched his brow.

“Zi Dui, you are blessed with good fortune. Could I borrow a little of your cultivation?”

As the woman brushed his face with her pale wrist, Xia Nan held his breath.

He heard himself ask, “How do I cultivate?”

Then he heard her answer with a laugh: “Dual cultivation.”

#One couple, one-on-one, sexually inexperienced leads, happy ending

#An imaginary dynasty modeled on the Ming, with no fantasy elements. All supernatural matters in the story are coincidences. There are lots of original details, and my version of the Imperial Guards. They wear their ceremonial uniforms and embroidered spring sabers in everyday life purely because it looks cool, so don't overthink it.

Blurb for the new novel next door, I Conquered a Yandere by Taking Photos

Thanks to the chance to be reborn, Ning Yi's path to unifying the Nine Provinces has become remarkably smooth. In just three years, he conquered the You Kingdom, which had been the toughest to take in his previous life, and captured the pampered Princess Yaoguang.

Don't ask how he captured her.

The little princess puts on a brave front, but she's fragile and shallow beneath it, and easy to manipulate. She is just the person to help him win over the former ministers of the You Kingdom. With just the right mix of kindness and authority, he easily won her heart.

Ning Yi returned to the Eastern Palace and saw the young woman waiting for him in full finery. Familiar satisfaction rose in his heart.

Women dress up for the men they love. He understood.

It was just that she changed clothes far too often.

“Why have you changed outfits again, Yaoyao?” he couldn't help asking.

“I love looking beautiful,” the young woman replied, her eyes bright.

Ning Yi held back a laugh and didn't call her out.

Isn't it fun when a captive who should hate and fear you falls helplessly into the web of affection you've spun?

Fine. In recognition of her devotion, he could grant her the honor of sharing his bed.

That night.

“If you don't love me, why do you dress up every day?!” he demanded through gritted teeth, pinning her down on the bed.

“I love looking beautiful,” the young woman replied, looking at him in confusion.

As someone who had transmigrated into this world, Yu Yao was both lucky and unlucky. She was lucky to be mistaken for a princess and brought back to the palace, but unlucky to see her country fall and be taken captive a year later.

Seeing that unification of the Nine Provinces was inevitable, Yu Yao had no plans to cause trouble. As long as nobody harmed her precious body, everything was negotiable!

Luckily, she was bound to a photography System. All she had to do was dress up according to a theme, then stroll past Ning Yi to complete each task.

Although affection was one of the scoring criteria, the System didn't force her to conquer Ning Yi. Yu Yao was happy to let things happen naturally. She hoped someone like Ning Yi, destined to have a harem, wouldn't fall for her.

To explain why she kept changing clothes, she naturally said she loved looking beautiful.

She swore she never meant to conquer Ning Yi, but she never expected him to conquer himself!

Fine. Since Ning Yi had kept himself pure, she... could make an effort to pursue him.

#Unambitious heroine x yandere hero, one-on-one, sexually inexperienced leads, happy ending

#An imaginary dynasty, with a mashup of clothing systems and a level of technology and bureaucracy modeled on the Tang. The multiple kingdoms are there to explain why different clothing systems coexist, so please don't compare them to real life.

Theme: Respect science