A Novelist's Daily Life in the Steam Age

[Next novel: I Transmigrated Into an Old-School Taiwanese Romance Novel and Got Rich Writing Fiction] Click on the author's page to see it. Here's the blurb for this novel: After accidentally falling into the water while boating with her classmates, Dai Linlang discovers that she is a transmigrator, from the twenty-first century to the ancient Liang dynasty in the year 128. But this Liang dynasty is no ordinary ancient kingdom. It is an alternate history reshaped by a transmigrated empress. The royal family is little more than a figurehead, the nobility is long gone, slavery has vanished, and women's status has risen to unprecedented heights. There are no phones, computers, or short videos, but there are steam engines, steamships, and trains. In this era, she can also return to her old career and change her life by writing novels. Reborn matriarch novels, revenge stories with face-swapping, transmigration-to-the-palace stories, domineering CEO romances, fake heiress stories, farming and business stories... Readers who had never read these genres, never been exposed to web-novel tropes, and never experienced the famous three-chapter hook are immediately hooked: [Author! Can you update more?] [Give me three minutes, and I'll need this author to write all the way to the ending!] [Come here, I'll get on my knees and beg you to write your next book!] Before she knows it, Dai Linlang has become famous across the country. Reader's Note: 1. Lots of author-created details. The setting is entirely fictional, and everything serves the plot. 2. There is romance, possibly with multiple love interests. It's uncertain whether the heroine will marry, but she focuses mainly on her career, and the overall story has a slice-of-life feel. I Transmigrated Into an Old-School Taiwanese Romance Novel and Got Rich Writing Fiction Web novelist Dai Siwen is suffering from writer's block and buys a pile of old-school Taiwanese romance paperbacks from a secondhand marketplace in search of inspiration. Before she can finish reading them, she falls asleep and wakes up inside one of the novels. The good news: she's only a minor colleague in the heroine's life. The bad news: the story is set in the 1980s or 1990s, an era she knows nothing about. But... When in Rome, right? She can always return to her old line of work and support herself. A similar novel: The Everyday Rise of a Female Author (Slow Transmigration), complete. If you're interested, click into the author's page to read it. Theme: Live earnestly and love yourself!