A Socially Anxious Girl Wins the Palace Battle by Letting Everyone Hear Her Thoughts

My next upcoming novels are After Becoming an Adviser to My Lowborn General Father and The Duke's Mansion: Daily Management. Their blurbs are at the very end. Please add them to your collection.

Blurb:

1. Jiang Ling transmigrates into the role of a minor concubine in a palace-intrigue novel.

In the original story, her character is just a background extra, while all the concubines are experts at palace intrigue and ruthless schemers.

Jiang Ling herself is a severe social anxiety sufferer. She gets short of breath and panics when speaking in front of people, and her mouth runs faster than her brain. She's an eccentric.

Let's lie flat. Let it all fall apart!

Who knew that Jiang Ling would escape danger every time and keep rising through the ranks?

Jiang Ling: ???

2. One day, Emperor Yuanming heard a voice say, "So many beauties! What a shame they're wasted on a pile of dung."

Pile of dung. Emperor Yuanming: ...Very well. Now I want to kill someone.

Later, he got hooked on listening to it, and came to think of it as a privilege unique to the emperor.

Until one day, her inner voice suddenly disappeared.

Emperor Yuanming panicked.

Before he died, Emperor Yuanming finally heard Jiang Ling's long-absent inner voice.

Empress Jiang said, "I don't love him, I don't love him, I don't love him. What kind of lunatic falls in love with the emperor in a palace-intrigue story? It's not like he's Hua Fei!"

Empress Jiang happily added, "Not one of them loves you!!!"

Also known as: Surviving the Palace-Intrigue Novel's Shura Arena and The Emperor Can Hear Her Thoughts, and She Rises Through the Ranks

All the Women Want to Become the Powerful Empress Dowager

Reader's guide:

The setting is very loose, so please don't nitpick.

An unconventional palace-intrigue story.

The heroine has social anxiety, likes living alone, and makes snarky comments under her breath. Her thoughts jump around and are eccentric.

The emperor is in love with her alone, but she doesn't return his feelings.

A melodramatic wish-fulfillment story.

Upcoming novel 1: After Becoming an Adviser to My Lowborn General Father. Blurb:

The war is over, and a new dynasty has just been established.

The lowborn generals earn noble titles through their military achievements, but can barely recognize a handful of characters. The old officials of the former dynasty despise them and often mock and ridicule them.

Cheng Dou, the Imperial City Guard, is an absolute lowborn. He can't even read official correspondence, making him a laughingstock at court. The emperor values his loyalty and reliability, and orders him to learn to read.

Cheng Dou is furious. He secretly splashes dog blood on the people who mock him, but still has to grit his teeth and study by imperial command.

In the ten years since she was born into this world, Cheng Ningxi has known nothing but war and chaos. She's been constantly on edge, and has only just managed to enjoy a stable, comfortable life.

Her useless father, whom she's met only twice, is now snoring loudly with his face buried in a book. Cheng Ningxi laughs at him without holding back.

Cheng Dou is mocked by his daughter. He wants to beat her, but can't bring himself to do it.

His two sons died fighting alongside him, and his wives and concubines have had no children for years. Cheng Ningxi is the only child he has left.

Cheng Dou: "Laughing at your old man? Then read it yourself, if you've got the guts! If you're better than me, I'll call you Dad!"

To his surprise, Cheng Ningxi uses the knowledge from her previous life to beat him with ease, then smugly says, "Call me Dad!"

Unable to accept defeat, Cheng Dou grabs a stick and chases her around the five-courtyard compound twice.

Cheng Dou, a stingy miser, looks at his taunting daughter, his eyes turning as he grins. "Girl, I've got an even better trick up my sleeve. Want to take me on?"

Seeing that Cheng Dou has taken the bait, Cheng Ningxi raises an eyebrow. "Bring it on!"

Thinking he'd gotten his way, Cheng Dou dismisses his hired clerks and dumps all the Imperial City Guard's official correspondence and memorials on the free labor that is Cheng Ningxi.

At first, Cheng Ningxi only wants to keep Cheng Dou from losing his post.

Later, she becomes the real power behind the Imperial City Guard.

The Imperial City Guard is strictly disciplined, and the capital becomes a civilized, peaceful place.

The crude generals don't dare relieve themselves anywhere they please. Even if they so much as spit, they swallow it back down as soon as they hear her name.

The elders of the clan worry that Cheng Dou's vast estate has no heir. They advise him that Cheng Ningxi is a girl, after all, and kindly send over a few young men for him to choose as an adopted son.

Meanwhile, the emperor covets Cheng Ningxi's abilities and issues an edict betrothing her to Prince Qin.

Prince Qin has always been as gentle as jade, but he makes an uncharacteristic stand and firmly refuses the marriage. "I'd rather die than marry her. She's not human!"

Cheng Dou: "I don't dare say anything. Cheng Ningxi is the real Dad."

Cheng Ningxi, invincible and bored enough to count ants: "Wonderful. He came right to my door."

She's not human, all right. She wants it all.

The Cheng clan and Prince Qin have long been hers for the taking.

Reader's guide:

A fictional setting. Please don't nitpick.

The plot comes first. The romance only begins once the characters are adults.

Upcoming novel 2: The Duke's Mansion: Daily Management. Blurb:

Meng Xiyi transmigrates into the daughter of a family that runs a coffin shop in the capital. Her family loves money above all else, but they're exceptionally united.

When she grows up, her parents can't bear to marry her off and plan to find her a live-in husband instead.

But one day, the official matchmaker arrives with drums and gongs, arranging a marriage between her and Zhou Zhaolin, a young master of the Duke of Weiguo's household.

A revered monk has read Zhou Zhaolin's fortune and declared that his principal wife must be born at noon on the fifth day of the fifth month, or she'll be in mortal danger.

The reputation of the Duke of Weiguo's household is every bit as notorious as Zhou Zhaolin's. Nobody in the land is unaware of them.

Zhou Zhaolin: A combination of Duan Zhengchun and Jia Baoyu, the golden phoenix of the ducal household, a flirtatious playboy who neglects his studies.

The Duke of Weiguo's household: A den of decadence and excess, a family of utter scoundrels. They specialize in bullying the weak and exploiting the locals, and they started and still hold the record for the biggest baby boom during a mourning period in history.

Because of her birth chart, Meng Xiyi has terrible luck, but she has no choice but to marry into the family.

The Duke of Weiguo's household is currently flourishing. Zhou Zhaolin's aunt is a noble consort, and his cousin is the crown prince.

The crown prince is the old emperor's only son, and the Duke of Weiguo's household will be the future emperor's maternal family.

Meng Xiyi to Zhou Zhaolin: We won't talk about feelings, and we won't share a bed as husband and wife. We can still be good friends.

To Zhou Zhaolin's many darlings: I'm not here to break you up or join you. I'm just here to make money.

But Meng Xiyi discovers that the Duke of Weiguo's household is so rotten, it's practically a potential best customer for a coffin shop.

Even making money and enjoying the gossip is nerve-racking, as she fears the family will be confiscated and their heads chopped off.

When the responsibility of managing the household falls on her shoulders, she has no choice but to take charge of this mess if she wants to survive.

Meng Xiyi's speech when taking over the Duke of Weiguo's household: Everyone knows my family runs a coffin shop. The dead are the only ones who get absolute immunity.

Reform is painful. I can only guarantee that I won't be the one suffering, not that you won't.

Under Meng Xiyi's management, which focuses on bloody purges and supplements them with modern business practices, the Duke of Weiguo's household becomes a rare beacon of wealth and virtue, earning the title of the Great Yong Dynasty's Most Virtuous Family.

Reader's guide:

A fictional setting. Please don't nitpick.

The heroine is no angel and was born into this world. She's ruthless, iron-fisted, and skilled at singing, acting, reciting, performing, throwing tantrums, playing the fool, and pretending to be possessed.

Theme: Life is easier when you take it easy