The Entire Court Wants Me Dead

[The blurb for my upcoming novel, A Thousand Gold Can't Buy What I Want, is below. Please add it to your collection~]

Blurb:

Cheng Yang was halfway through playing a VR game when everything suddenly went black. When she opened her eyes again, she'd transmigrated into the game as a puppet emperor.

The civil and military officials were all hypocrites. They flattered her to her face while secretly plotting how to kill her.

Cheng Yang recalled what the host had said at the start of the game: "Ultimate mission: Kill the puppet emperor." A brilliant idea struck her. If she died, wouldn't the game end and send her home?

So she decided to lie flat and give up.

A palace maid poisoned her. Cheng Yang picked up the poison and drank it, but the maid's plot was exposed, and she took poison herself. Cheng Yang was completely unharmed.

On a garden outing in the imperial harem, the dowager consort shoved her into a pond. The dowager consort nearly died of illness, while Cheng Yang only lost an outfit.

On a disguised inspection tour, assassins suddenly appeared. She hurried forward to greet them, but the Grand Tutor was nearly killed, while she remained full of energy.

As she lay flat, auspicious signs appeared in the southern lands, and the army won battle after battle at the front. The people built a temple to the late emperor, thanking him for making her emperor.

Cheng Yang: It's your fault I've survived this long!

Cheng Yang had been waiting to die, but she suddenly realized the shadow guard who kept stopping her from giving up and the Grand Tutor who always opposed her at court looked more and more alike. Could it be...

Impossible. That stodgy, old-fashioned fossil couldn't possibly be this good to her!

Then one day, she woke from a nightmare and saw the usually immaculate man lying naked beside her. He coughed delicately behind his hand and smiled innocently. "Your Majesty must take responsibility for me."

Cheng Yang: Is this a new nightmare?!

Upcoming novel blurb below

Sunny, lively young woman x brooding, bitter sidekick

Zhang Leyi had no parents, only a master.

Her master taught her how to survive, and told her that wherever she was born, she should always keep the whole world in her heart.

So she went everywhere under the heavens, whether she was welcome there or not.

The pleasure house in the capital's slums was her home. She would cherish it all her life, just like her master.

Later, a boy as carefree as the wind came to the pleasure house. Like her, he had no parents. He came to learn a trade and find his family.

From then on, Zhang Leyi had a little sidekick.

He could fight and flirt, and he knew how to keep everyone around her in line. Even the Zhao family's girl, who had squabbled with Zhang Leyi since childhood, could only lower her head and call him "big brother."

Zhang Leyi thought it made her look great, and held her head a little higher whenever she went out.

She thought things would stay that way until she grew into an old woman.

Until one day, Zhang Leyi discovered a secret: her little sidekick was the crown prince, revered by everyone.

Later, she discovered another secret: he had mistaken a thief for his father. He wasn't of the imperial bloodline at all, but the false prince whose family had been wiped out in the child-swapping case years ago.

And later still, she discovered that she was the real child who had been switched. Ah, not the real prince, but the real princess!

Zhang Leyi suddenly felt that her life was utterly absurd.

Everything she'd once tried her hardest to obtain but never could was now coming to her in a flood, and she'd lost interest in it all.

And everything she desperately wanted now was gradually pushing her farther away, until she could search the heavens and earth and still struggle to find him again.

Theme: Let go of obsessions and be content with what you have