My, County Magistrate, How You've Changed

[My next novel, The Era-Novel Side Character Doesn't Want to Work Hard, is coming soon. Please add it to your favorites~]

Blurb:

Liang Jing transmigrates into the body of a poor woman tormented by her birth family and abandoned by her scumbag fiance.

Her parents want to bleed her dry, while her fiance is afraid she'll keep pestering him. So she decides to tear off the mask and be her true self.

She leaves home with one foot and starts working as a talented cook at the county yamen with the other.

She thought all she'd have to do was cook, but it turns out she also has to help solve cases. Before she knows it, she's even helping address local people's livelihood problems. She's like a brick, moved wherever she's needed.

Then one day, when she's saved enough money to leave,

the young, handsome county magistrate stops her. "Should I go with you, or will you take me with you?"

Liang Jing: "...I want to choose a third option."

He smiles and takes her hand. "All right, then you'll come with me."

This time, I will never let you go.

[Bonus Scene]

One day, Liang Jing made fish boiled in chili oil.

Constable A: It's numbing, spicy, and has fish. Just right, since the magistrate doesn't like it. We get it all to ourselves.

Constable B: We've finally waited for this day...

Constable C: The magistrate is here!!!

A moment later, the county magistrate sat down and glanced at the bowl of fish boiled in chili oil, which had more chili peppers than fish. He said expressionlessly, "Is this even edible?"

Liang Jing was just about to tell him she'd saved him a non-spicy portion.

But then he picked up a slice of fish and ate it.

Everyone was astonished: Oh, that's delicious!

[Note]

1. This story is set in a fictional world. No need to fact-check the historical details.

2. One-on-one romance, featuring an independent, clever heroine and a reserved, level-headed hero. A sweet romance where love grows over time.

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1. Please add my next novel, The Era-Novel Heroine Doesn't Want to Work Hard, to your favorites~

In her previous life, Wen Ting died young, before the age of forty, due to organ failure.

Only after her death did she discover that she was the heroine of an era novel. Her family background was beneath the hero's, so their relationship was full of twists and turns.

Throughout her short life, she had tried hard to please his family and friends just to prove herself worthy of him. She served her in-laws, who treated her with utter disdain, and even ruined her health at a young age, leaving her unable to conceive.

Given another chance at life, she decides she'll never work so hard again. Why spend her whole life on a man?

The most important thing in life is to be happy.

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The villagers of Qingshui Village notice that the young female city youth who arrived less than two months ago has finally shown her true lazy, greedy nature. She does the easiest work for the fewest work points, yet eats and drinks well at every meal. Everyone is waiting for her to run out of money and food, wondering how she'll make it through spring.

But to their surprise, she never misses a meal, and she only grows prettier by the day, secretly winning the hearts of countless young men. They all compete to do her work for her.

Yet every time one of them is about to approach her, there's already a man by her side.

2. Blurb for the upcoming novel The Villain's Spoiled-Life System

Before Liang Qiuning transmigrated, she was bound to the "Spoiled Life" System. If she could complete the tasks it assigned, she'd have a chance to return to the modern world.

But who knew that after she transmigrated...

The System was gone!

Liang Qiuning: ??? Where's the System I left here? It was a whole System! Where did it go?

At the same time, a System calling itself the "Spoiled Life" System suddenly appears inside Jiang Yunshen, a bad-tempered, capricious man whom the doctor has declared won't live past twenty.

The blasted thing chatters in his head all day, constantly telling him to complete tasks, including but not limited to:

Pleasing his grandmother, who rose from humble beginnings; making himself noticeable to his kind-faced but cruel-hearted stepmother; and learning embroidery, painting, and the zither from his hypocritical younger sisters, among other things.

Sickly Jiang Yunshen reclines on a chaise longue, eyes half closed, and declares: What kind of stupid tasks are these? I don't care who does them. I'm not playing along.

System: If you don't complete the tasks, you'll be struck by lightning.

Jiang Yunshen, who wants to live out the rest of his days in peace: ...

3. Blurb for the upcoming novel My Husband Was Taken Over

Liu Yuling, a merchant's daughter, obeys her parents and marries Cui Huaixin, the son of an official to whom she was promised in marriage as a child.

A grand bridal procession stretches for miles, leaving everyone envious.

She thought it was a fine match, but on their wedding night, her husband tells her he intends to remain faithful to the woman he loves.

Liu Yuling thinks that's just fine. She has her dowry and shops to support herself, so wouldn't living alone be a carefree life?

Then one day, her husband wakes up after suffering a head injury, and his personality has completely changed.

Liu Yuling: My lord, why do you keep looking at me?

Cui Hao: Because I've realized you're a little strange.

Liu Yuling: ???

Cui Hao: Strange-looking in a very beautiful way.

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Cui Hao, a rich second-generation heir, transmigrates and becomes a young scholar in ancient times.

The scholar has a married woman he secretly loves, and pays no attention to the wife his parents chose for him, leaving her alone in the bridal chamber every night.

Cui Hao brings along the divorce letter the scholar had already written. If he doesn't love her, he should let her go instead of dragging her down.

But when his beautiful wife looks up at him, he freezes.

Liu Yuling: My lord, what do you want with me?

Cui Hao tears up the divorce letter and asks, "Why are you doing this to me?"

Liu Yuling: Doing what to you?

Cui Hao: Making me fall so hard for you!

Theme: True love knows no prejudice or hierarchy