The System Forced Me to Become the Most Beautiful Woman in the Capital

In her previous life, Tao Miao endured endless humiliation and died with hatred in her heart. By chance, she bound herself to the "Weakling Improvement" System and was reborn. After seeing her maternal uncle's family for who they really were, she endured all kinds of inhuman tasks under the System's threats and resolved to avenge her mother.

[Learn two hundred characters in three days to gain one beauty point]

[Memorize the Thousand Character Classic in half an hour to gain two beauty points]

[Learn to play Go in seven days and win a game to gain four beauty points]

As she worked through the tasks, Tao Miao suddenly noticed that the sour-faced scholar who once disliked her had started staring at her in a daze. The schoolchildren who bullied her began sneaking her candy to win her favor, and every unmarried man in the village started scheming to marry her.

Even a group of people from the capital arrived, dressed in fine silk and speaking to her with humble deference.

"Third Miss, the Chief Councilor has sent us to bring you home."

*

On the day Tao Miao returned to the capital, everyone in the various branches of the family waited to see her make a fool of herself.

According to those who had gone to investigate, the girl the master had fathered outside the family was scrawny and sallow, and couldn't compare even to the household maids. She was utterly unpresentable.

They were all ready to mock her, but then she lifted her veiled hat. Her mesmerizing eyes swept over everyone in the hall, and she greeted them politely, her red lips parting to speak.

The entire hall fell silent.

Before long, news spread that the Chief Councilor's third daughter was stunningly beautiful and exceptionally talented. She was even named "the Capital's Number One Beauty."

Suitors crowded her doorstep.

The famously powerful and ruthless young Marquis Han could no longer sit still.

Looking at the man before her, with his refined and gentle features, Tao Miao thought he looked more and more like the "merchant" she had once rescued in the village.

[Reading Guide]

1. The System only has one function: completing tasks increases beauty points. It comes with no other overpowered features.

2. The heroine starts out farming and improving herself, then returns to the capital and makes a comeback.

3. One-on-one romance, alternate setting, happy ending.

Please add my upcoming story, My Captive Cat, to your reading list.

[Charming, timid little consort vs. obsessive, violent emperor]

Yan Yuan, an illegitimate daughter of the Yan family, is set up by her stepmother and sent to the imperial palace in her elder sister's place, carried in on a sedan chair. Everyone knows the current emperor is a tyrant who kills without blinking.

On the night she enters the palace, she drinks poisoned tea, vomits blood, and falls unconscious. When she wakes, she has become the little cat presented to the emperor as a tribute from the Western Regions.

Yan Yuan lives in fear, spending her days as a cat and her nights as a human. Then she happens upon the tyrant after he has been drugged and is in mortal danger.

The next day, while the furious tyrant orders a thorough search of the palace for the woman from the bamboo grove, Yan Yuan is licking her fur as she lies on the desk in the Imperial Study. She gazes at the cold, ascetic man and recalls what happened the night before, silently cursing him: "Beast."

*

The tyrant has two troubles these days.

First, the cat in the Imperial Study that seems to have become a spirit. Second, the woman in the bamboo grove who left him wanting more.

Later, just as he finally discovers an unbelievable, absurd truth, he catches that wretched woman trying to run away with the cat in her arms.

*

Everyone in the empire knows the tyrant has grown increasingly foolish lately. He keeps his distance from women, doesn't summon his consorts, and spends all day cuddling a little white cat.

He takes it to court, has servants who bother it flogged and left for dead, and gives it rare treasures from the imperial treasury, even the empress's ceremonial seal, to play with.

No one knows that, in the dead of night, behind the red curtains in Luhua Palace, a jade-white foot slips out. Golden shackles jingle around its ankle.

The tyrant's eyes darken. He presses a large hand against her slender neck and laughs softly. "Will you still run away?"

Yan Yuan shakes her head through her tears.

"I won't dare again..."

Reading Guide:

1. At first, the heroine's soul inhabits a cat's body. She is a cat by day and human by night. Later, her soul returns to her body for good.

2. One-on-one romance, both leads are virgins. The tyrant is possessive and genuinely deranged. The harem is there in name only.

3. A fluffy, no-brainer sweet romance.

Theme: Knowledge changes your fate; learning changes your life!