The Palace Scheming Expert Rules the Entertainment World [Book Transmigration]

Gu Ruyi spent her whole life in the imperial harem. As the head palace matron, she was a harem power player who had reigned supreme for years.

She could out-argue court officials and outmaneuver generals. Not a single consort failed to respect her tactics, and all the palace maids and eunuchs listened carefully to her lessons.

One day, she wakes up inside a female-led entertainment-industry novel. But she's become Gu Yao, a cannon-fodder talent agent: insulted, belittled, and even fired, only to have people kick her while she's down...

Looking at the talent under her management: a trainee obsessed with video games? A minor actor who spends his time playing with cats and dogs? A useless pretty face who can do nothing but cry? Why is she surrounded by such dead weight?

Then she looks at her rivals in the entertainment industry: award-winning film and TV stars, singers who have just won Diamond Records, and top-tier idols who command half the industry...

??? That's it? How is she supposed to compete with them?!

Looking at her useless bunch of entertainers, Gu Yao silently pulls out a five-inch silver needle. "Daylight's here. Enough fooling around. It's time to start learning palace intrigue."

In just a few short months, every entertainer under Gu Yao's management becomes a sensation. Other agents want to learn from her methods, but all she gives them is a manuscript:

They open to the first page:

Section One: Basic Principles of Palace Intrigue

Everyone: ?

They turn a few more pages:

Section Thirteen: Seventy-Two Ways to Slap Someone

Everyone: ??

They flip to the final page:

The Ultimate Secret: To master this art, you must first enter the palace

Everyone: ???

At first, she only wanted to teach her little rookies palace intrigue so they could survive in the entertainment industry. She never expected every one of them to become a top-tier star!

The entire entertainment industry has its eyes on the press conference for the filming of the year's hottest IP drama, "The Head Palace Matron."

No one could have imagined that the cast of a single show would bring together stars from so many different fields!

Reporter One: "What do you think you and the chief eunuch you play have in common?"

Newly popular singing-and-dancing boy-band star Han Ziyi adjusts his glasses smugly. "We've both been poked with the matron's needle."

Reporter Two: "Your face is still swollen. Will that affect filming?"

Xiong Che, a famous extreme-sports creator with over a hundred million fans at home and abroad, waves a hand. "No. The matron's slap left me much more swollen than this."

Reporter Three: "We hear you play a noble consort in the show, with lots of difficult action scenes?"

Chu Xiaoxiao smiles gently, showing none of the airs of a double award-winning actress. "Nothing too difficult. The matron taught me all kinds of acrobatics."

Reader's Guide:

1. The male and female leads transmigrate into the same book. They are each other's only partners, with an explanation later.

2. No angst throughout. Overpowered, overpowered, overpowered; satisfying, satisfying, satisfying. It gets very sweet later on.

New novel, "Everyone Loves a Bad Woman [Quick Transmigration]", coming soon!

Lu Xiao, a notorious man-eater with a huge stable of admirers and countless backup lovers, dies in her hospital bed after a serious illness.

As her soul drifts through the void, a System binds itself to her and asks her to help the villainous supporting women in different worlds complete their storylines. Completing each mission will grant her a vigorous new lease on life.

[Entertainment-industry story: After a scheming green-tea girl breaks the hearts of both the male lead and the male supporting characters, will three men take turns pinning her against the wall?]

Following the plot, Lu Xiao dumps her childhood sweetheart, sabotages the trainee pursuing the heroine, and bullies the heroine's destined boyfriend, an award-winning actor, on a variety show.

Just as she completes her mission and prepares to go home, inherit her trillion-yuan fortune, and meet the man her family has chosen for her, three men suddenly appear outside...

Famous painter: "Xiaoxiao, give me another chance."

Top-tier young star: "Sis, are you really going to leave me?"

Popular award-winning actor: "What am I supposed to do if you leave?"

[Period story: After a greedy, lustful widow ruins the reputations of the educated youths, will she be taken to the cornfield at the edge of the village in the dead of night?]

Hoping to find a stepfather for her three-year-old son and move to the city for a job with a grain ration, Lu Xiao flirts with all the educated youths who have been sent down to the village.

She's waiting to finish a custody battle with her ex-husband's army buddy so she can use the settlement money to start a factory. Then a few furious gazes seem ready to burn the floral shirt right off her back...

Future college student who passed the entrance exam: "Come with me. I'll raise the child."

Teacher about to return to the city: "Xiao, do you remember that song I taught you, 'Bound Together as Husband and Wife'?"

Soldier who gave up his place in the army: "I'm not leaving. I'll be the one to work the fields from now on!"

[Xianxia story: After the black-hearted schemer who wanted to rule the Three Realms gravely wounds the high gods, will the road to the Hall of the Jade Emperor be carpeted with her favorite red spider lilies?]

[Apocalypse story: After the saintly white lotus hides her zombie-virus infection and secretly drips her blood into the supernatural ability users' food, will they offer their necks to her of their own accord?]

Watching Lu Xiao, who was supposed to meet a tragic end, thrive while a crowd of men go to absurd lengths to win her smile, the System falls into deep thought.

System: Why is this happening???

Lu Xiao: Haven't you heard? Bad women never get hurt.

Reader's Guide:

1. The heroine only loves herself. She's a true man-eater.

2. A feel-good story, a feel-good story, a feel-good story. It might be extremely Mary Sue.

Theme: Work hard to improve yourself.