My Imperial Consort Only Wants to Gossip

In her third year in the palace, Yan Shu, a beauty of Yongning Hall, has yet to see the emperor’s face. While the concubines do everything they can to win his favor, she’s absorbed in a gossip System and has no time for anything else. [The heir of Marquis Linwu isn’t actually his son. Tsk, tsk.] [That old-fashioned Minister of Rites is having an affair with his daughter-in-law!!!] [Good grief, the honest and unassuming husband of the Grand Princess has several mistresses.] With juicy gossip like this every day, who even remembers the emperor? Then one day, she hears the most explosive gossip yet [The iron-blooded ruler, seemingly cold and aloof, is actually afflicted with an unspeakable ailment.] Yan Shu: “!!! No wonder he never visits the harem!” Wait… Something doesn’t seem right… Why did she enter the palace, then?!! ~~ The new emperor, Yuwen Lan, has two secrets. Since ascending the throne, he has gradually lost his manhood; At the same time, however, he has gained the ability to read minds. Surrounded every day by hypocrites whose words and thoughts never match, he grows colder and more ruthless. Until one day, he hears a particularly unusual thought [Isn’t this a criminal waste of a perfectly good man?] Yuwen Lan pauses and narrows his eyes at the young woman with her pure, delicate features. [Heavens, don’t you feel guilty making such a gorgeous man unable to…?] [Is there really no way to save him???] [If the Tenfold Rejuvenation Pill and the Virility Restoration Pill don’t work, has he tried the Reviving Yang acupuncture technique?] Yuwen Lan: “???” ~~ Even after becoming empress, Yan Shu still has no idea how she kept skipping along the emperor’s limits and somehow became the most important person in his heart. Maybe she was just lucky. Bonus scene: At the ice-skating banquet, the emperor greets his ministers while secretly following along with his beloved consort’s gossip. Yan Shu: [Duke Cheng’en is getting on in years and still keeps a fifth and sixth mistress outside. What a shameless old man!] Yuwen Lan: [Shameless old man???] That’s his uncle… Yan Shu: [Hasn’t Marquis Linwu noticed that his son looks nothing like him? Poor man.] Yuwen Lan: […Now that I look, he really doesn’t. Should I give him a heads-up?] Yan Shu: [So this is the Grand Academician of the Wenhua Pavilion who betrayed and abandoned his old lover? What a hypocrite!] Yuwen Lan: […The more I look at this old man, the less trustworthy he seems.] One-on-one romance, a goofy sweet story, with descriptions of delicious food. Chapters 63, 64, and 65 involve switched-at-birth daughters. The content advisory has already mentioned this, so readers who might be uncomfortable should choose carefully. ~~ My new novel is now available: My Beloved Consort Only Wants to Draw Her Sword Ming Xi was once a princess of the Wei Kingdom, beautiful and nobly born. But her father and brothers were useless, and the dynasty fell overnight. To avenge her country, she goes undercover in the imperial court of Great Zhou, intending to assassinate Emperor Xiao Yuanche, the enemy who annexed her homeland. After enduring humiliation at every turn, she finally makes her way from a laundry maid to a lady-in-waiting serving the emperor. Just as she is about to succeed, she makes one mistake after getting drunk and ends up sleeping with someone… The next morning, Xiao Yuanche gazes at her with a shadowy look. “You were my first.” Ming Xi: “…” That very day, she becomes the only consort in the harem, and is made Noble Consort. A year later, she gives birth to the crown prince and is named empress. Ming Xi: “…” How on earth did things end up like this? ~~ Everyone under heaven knows that the young emperor of Great Zhou is wise and mighty. He ascended the throne as a boy, and in just a few years, brought order to the country and prosperity to the people. There’s just one thing: though he’s long past the age to marry, the emperor’s harem remains empty. People say the ruler devotes himself wholeheartedly to affairs of state. No one knows that when he was held hostage in a neighboring country, he lost his virginity. Xiao Yuanche still remembers that moonlit night beneath the stars, when the woman pinned him beneath her, and the intoxicating night they shared. He searched for her to the point of madness. He never expected that when they met again, she would disguise herself as his maid and devote herself to plotting his assassination. Has she truly forgotten their past? It doesn’t matter. He remembers. Theme: True love heals old wounds