I Made a Hundred Billion by Gawking at Gossip

New story: Has the Top Scholar Agreed to the Divorce Yet? Please add it to your collection. The synopsis is below. Also known as: "Shocking! You Can Use a Gossip System Like This?" After binding to a gossip System, Qiao Sheng silently cursed everyone within sight. Not a single person flew into a rage. Once she confirmed that no one, including the male lead, could hear her thoughts, Qiao Sheng relaxed. She didn't want to be like the other Hosts bound to gossip Systems, whose thoughts were read wherever they went. Zhou Jingyu, who happened to be passing by: I can hear you. Since this was an exclusive source of gossip, Qiao Sheng decided to cultivate a fortune-teller persona. Her predictions were uncannily accurate (no one could be more accurate than the System), and she became Master Qiao, famed by word of mouth. Countless people came bearing money, hoping she'd show them the way. Qiao Sheng: Want some gossip? Pay up. Through the System, Qiao Sheng learned which ventures were most profitable and which tycoons to invest with for guaranteed returns. Her wealth grew rapidly. Strangely, whenever one of the ventures she liked had a funding shortfall, someone would show up with the money. And it was always the same person. Zhou Jingyu: Invest alongside my wife, and I get to look at her while making money. I want to cuddle up to my wife so badly. Qiao Sheng saw Zhou Jingyu, who made money on every investment, as her golden ticket. Zhou Jingyu: Hehe, what's wrong with quietly living off my wife and riding her coattails? Is it because you don't have a wife? Please add to your pre-release collection: Has the Top Scholar Agreed to the Divorce Yet? Zhou Ying'an transmigrated into the body of a pitiful illegitimate daughter of the Duke's household, whose concubine mother had died. Her stepmother could marry her off to anyone with just a word. To avoid being married to a dissolute playboy, Zhou Ying'an married Chen Zhao, the top scholar who had been jilted by her legitimate older sister. On their wedding night, Chen Zhao said to Zhou Ying'an with a grave expression, "I only married you because we knew each other as children, and I couldn't bear to see you wed to a wastrel. But I have no romantic feelings for you, and you aren't the woman I want to spend my life with. I'll give you the respect due to a wife, but don't expect anything more. Once you..." Zhou Ying'an suppressed her delight and answered briskly, "All right." Chen Zhao's long prepared speech was cut short. Later, Zhou Ying'an not only escaped the Duke's household, but also helped Chen Zhao deal with his malicious stepmother and put his household in order as thanks. Zhou Ying'an believed she and Chen Zhao had reached a win-win arrangement and owed each other nothing, so she prepared to ask for a divorce. But Chen Zhao blocked her way. "You are the wife I married in a proper ceremony, my lifelong partner. Where do you think you're going?" Chen Zhao hadn't wanted to marry a daughter from the Zhou family's concubine branch. But when he learned that his childhood acquaintance was struggling under her stepmother's thumb and was about to be married off to a man who frequented brothels, he took pity on her. He planned to marry her first, then let her go once she could protect herself. So when his young wife misunderstood and thought he loved someone else, he didn't correct her. That was for the best. He should treat her only as the little girl he'd known as a child, without letting their relationship grow any closer. Later, he tore the divorce papers to shreds and held her captive in his arms. "An'an, what must I do to make you stay?" He regretted more than anything that he hadn't cleared up the misunderstanding when Zhou Ying'an thought he loved someone else. Theme: No matter how hard things get, always hold on to hope