A Leisurely Life After I Transmigrated into a Book

★ Coming soon: Drunk on Blossoms and Hidden Charms by My Pillow. Both are groveling-for-forgiveness romances. Scroll down to read the blurbs.

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Veteran reporter Qiu Songmiao transmigrates into a book and becomes its wicked supporting female character, a poor girl with nothing to her name who is about to be sold as a tyrant's concubine.

Luckily, she gets bound to an intelligence System.

There's no way she's going to resign herself to that fate. Instead, she starts a newspaper and makes her fortune selling papers.

No layout? She'll do it herself.

No woodblock prints? She'll grit her teeth and make do.

Writing articles is no problem at all.

The main thing is, if she can avoid spending money, she will.

And so the Qiu Gazette is born.

Exposing scandals, compiling public policy updates, even sharing where academies are opening and how to find their tutors, the paper offers you a complete service.

Before long, more and more people are buying the paper, and even high-ranking officials start trying to win her favor.

The emperor himself declares, "Miss Qiu is truly a star of literature descended from the heavens."

As the newspaper grows, Qiu Songmiao finds herself increasingly troubled. Plenty of people use investment and learning as excuses to pester her.

So she puts up a sign outside: "To invest, you must be handsome."

That gets rid of quite a few people.

One day, her manager reports that a man has barged into the newspaper office demanding to invest.

Qiu Songmiao is furious and turns to scold him, only to stare in amazement.

"What do you think? Am I handsome enough?"

= Drunk on Blossoms =

As the illegitimate daughter of an earl's household, Xie Wanling knows perfectly well that her marriage to He Langjin is nothing more than a family exchange.

He Langjin is the most refined and elegant young heir in the capital, the impeccably proper successor to the Duke of Zhongning.

He's courteous to everyone, except Xie Wanling.

Xie Wanling knows her status is low and never asks for anything more.

She serves her parents-in-law, is gentle and accommodating, and tries to please everyone in the household, but none of it earns her a smile from He Langjin.

On a snowy night, the wind outside is bitterly cold.

Xie Wanling takes a bad fall, bringing on premature labor while pregnant.

As she struggles through labor, her eyes fill with tears and pain breaks through her cries.

Then she hears a maid say, "The heir has business tonight. He's still at the barracks."

So he really never cared about her.

A tear rolls down her cheek. Xie Wanling hears the people in the room shouting, and her consciousness slowly fades.

When she opens her eyes again, she has returned to the year she came of age.

The next time she sees He Langjin at the estate, she lowers her eyes and says, "Your daughter is neither talented nor virtuous, and cannot become the Duchess of Zhongning. Please choose someone else, Father."

Her younger sisters perk up when they hear Xie Wanling's words.

But then they see the heir's gaze gradually sharpen as it falls on their elder sister.

Even the teacup in his long, slender fingers slips and falls.

= The Blind Concubine Zheyin =

The day Yinyin sells herself to bury her father, a wealthy master gives her ten taels of silver and takes her back to his estate.

Knowing she's blind, she only wants to repay her master's kindness as best she can.

But that night, she loses consciousness. When she wakes the next morning, a man is lying beside her.

Though she can't see him, she can sense the icy chill radiating from him.

Yinyin doesn't know how this happened and tries to explain, but the man leaves without a word.

When someone comes back into the room, the man asks her in a voice cold as ice, "Will you come with me to the capital? I'll keep you safe and give you a proper title."

Only then does Yinyin learn that the man before her is Prince Jing, Pei Lanzhen.

The previous night, her master had schemed against them, forcing them to consummate their marriage.

After hesitating for a long while, Yinyin turns her unfocused eyes toward Pei Lanzhen and nods.

In the capital, Yinyin is merely a concubine in Prince Jing's manor.

She lives in the most remote courtyard, yet still hopes that one day she'll be able to see Pei Lanzhen with her own eyes.

Pei Lanzhen is ambushed on a military campaign, but when he sees that the person before him is a blind woman, he suddenly can't bring himself to kill her.

Now that they've shared a bed, Pei Lanzhen only wants her to remain in her courtyard in the manor.

He'll find someone to cure her eyes and give her a good life. He simply doesn't want to see her again, or let that strange feeling show.

But one day, a letter is waiting on his desk.

A letter of farewell.

Theme: Join hands to create a harmonious and orderly society in ancient times.