The Supporting Actress's Awakening

Song Rong transmigrates to ancient times and becomes a scheming, seemingly innocent concubine-born daughter. Her mother rose from being a maid.

The legitimate daughter is the classic heroine: clever, brave, and capable.

Song Rong: ...I'm doomed. I must be the villainess!

To stay alive, she keeps her role as a supporting character firmly in mind at all times.

One: Be a good supporting character. Love the heroine and love life. Never covet any male lead or male supporting character.

Two: Hoard money in preparation for her family being ruined and herself being sent off to serve in the army.

Just as she fills a big chest with treasure, the emperor makes her a consort and sends her into the palace, chest and all.

Song Rong is in tears inside. So this isn't a household-intrigue story, it's palace intrigue. She's in the palace now, and the palace battles are about to begin.

Can I even make it through two episodes?

After entering the palace, she becomes a favored consort. The damn emperor doesn't leave her room at night. This must be to spice up the relationship between the male and female leads! That's what she thinks, with the deep awareness of a supporting character, as she keeps hoarding jewelry and preparing for the day she's banished to the cold palace.

She waits and waits and waits...

She waits until she's made empress and grows old with the emperor, but the cold palace never comes.

One day, the damn emperor suddenly knocks over her treasure chest. "You sleep with these jewels in your arms every day! How long has it been since you touched me? I work myself to the bone every day, handling palace intrigue for your sake. Do you think I do it because you're greedy? I do it because I want you!"

Song Rong's eyes widen. "Ah, this..."

So it turns out she's been living so comfortably because someone else has been silently carrying the burden!

You've worked hard, Your Majesty!

A ridiculous, sweet comedy!!!!!!

[There was a bonus chapter I wanted to write, but it didn't quite fit in the main story, so I started a new one. Find it in my author's column: The Office Drone Song Rongrong and Her Evil Boss.]

A modern city rom-com. Same characters, a new story. Also known as The Office Drone's Sense of Duty. Hahaha.

Song Rongrong, an office drone three years out of college, meets He Lin, the newly arrived heir to the company. He falls for her at first sight and flirts with her relentlessly,

but her intense office-drone mentality keeps her from noticing.

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He Lin: He deliberately waits for her to finish work at night and walks her home.

Song Rongrong: The new heir is keeping tabs on whether I'm willing to stay late and work overtime!

He Lin: He teams up with her for games at the company outing.

Song Rongrong: Why is the boss always watching me? Did he catch me slacking off?!

He Lin: He likes every single post on her social media.

Song Rongrong: This is so terrifying! He's warning me not to browse social media at work!

He Lin: ...Are my hints really not obvious enough?

Song Rongrong: They're obvious, way too obvious!

I'm just an office drone. The new heir at my company caught me slacking off and now keeps a close eye on me every day. He even messages me on weekends to ask me to work overtime. What should I do? Help!

Theme: Even in adversity, one should stand on one's own feet and strive to improve.