The Female Side Character Only Cares About Work

[Volume release announcement]: This novel will go premium on April 7, with three chapters released that day.

Upcoming novel: The Little Empress Keeps Getting Caught Slacking in the Harem

A rebellious, laid-back empress × a scheming, ambitious empress dowager (female emperor)

Reader’s Guide:

1. Both leads are versatile. Don’t ask who takes which role: they switch, according to their personalities.

2. Updates usually come at 8 p.m. daily. If there’s no update, I’ll post a notice.

Chu Wenyu spent her life killing her mother, harming her younger sister, and bringing the entire Chu family to ruin.

After doing every wicked thing imaginable, Chu Wenyu chose to plunge a dagger into her own heart, just so she wouldn’t have to be anyone’s puppet anymore.

But despite desperately wanting to die, she didn’t. Instead, she was chosen by something called the Villainess Redemption System.

Chu Wenyu also learned that her world was nothing more than a girls’ love showbiz novel, and that everything she had done was required by the plot to make life difficult for the heroine, her younger sister.

Chu Wenyu: “Oh, so it’s not that there’s something wrong with my brain, it’s the author who’s crazy. That’s a relief.”

System: “You have a pretty unusual take on this.”

Reborn into a new life, Chu Wenyu decided to make amends.

She would expose her father and his assistant for who they really were, and help her mother escape that hell and live a wonderful life of her own.

She would protect her sister, who had just started college, focus on her studies and hone her acting skills, and stay away from rich trash.

In this life, Chu Wenyu wasn’t so ambitious. She only wanted to make money.

She worked hard, diligently building up her company, and accidentally climbed onto the rich list.

But no matter how carefully she planned, she never expected her supposed business partner to want neither her money nor her business acumen, but her body.

System: “So what if she wants you? Are you going to let a woman get in the way of making money?”

Chu Wenyu swore that at first, all she wanted was for Gu Qingnian to keep an eye on her younger sister and stop her from neglecting her studies to chase after domineering-CEO forced-love fantasies all day.

Then Chu Wenyu realized Gu Qingnian was the real menace. She wasn’t a domineering CEO; she was unreasonable. The dignified Ms. Gu was actually trying to seduce her with her looks.

Chu Wenyu couldn’t understand it. Wasn’t building wealth together better? Why bother with romance?

Gu Qingnian: “It’s great, but wanting you is even better.”

Before meeting Chu Wenyu, Gu Qingnian was an illegitimate daughter of the Gu family, hidden away from the world.

After meeting her, Gu Qingnian was reborn from the mire, transformed into someone new.

So Chu Wenyu was her light, and she would never let go of her in this lifetime.

Unfortunately, work was all that mattered to President Chu, with no room in her heart for love. Gu Qingnian could only take her time and pursue her when she let her guard down.

[Upcoming Novel Blurb]

They say the empress of Zhao is both a skilled scholar and warrior, with knowledge of everything from astronomy to geography.

At twelve, she dazzled the entire city of Tianzhao. Scholars across the land exhausted their ink praising her.

But at fifteen, an imperial decree named her the new empress.

Every scholar in Zhao mourned her fate. After all, the new emperor was only a three-year-old child.

But as the empress herself, Si Yunqin had nothing to mourn.

The young emperor had plenty of people to care for him, and with no one in the harem, she could enjoy the peace and quiet.

She had food, clothes, and people to look after her. When there was work, she could slack off; when there wasn’t, she could lie flat.

Compared to working herself to death in her previous life, this was practically heaven.

But why could the empress dowager at Shou’an Palace always catch her slacking off?

Assigning harem affairs to the consorts to handle didn’t count as slacking off, did it?

It was called rationally allocating human resources.

Having the little emperor study and practice his writing on his own didn’t count as slacking off either, did it?

It was called reading a text a hundred times until its meaning became clear.

The empress dowager nodded in approval, slow and unhurried.

“What the empress says makes perfect sense. Why not tell me how you’d assign the court officials as well?”

Si Yunqin couldn’t say. If she said too much, her mouth would hurt; if she said too little, her back would hurt.

Later, the empress dowager became the new emperor, but the empress remained empress.

Si Yunqin thought she could finally lie flat in peace.

As it turned out, capitalists really did want to squeeze every last drop of surplus value out of their workers.

By day, she had to help the emperor manage state affairs. By night, she had to help the emperor satisfy her needs.

She did get to lie down, but her back was a little sore.