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When Meng Shi transmigrated, she became bound to a cross-dimensional livestream System. She could earn popularity and tips through livestreaming, then exchange them for money and supplies.
After thinking it over, she decided to livestream her own life as a country bride with a blind husband and a house with nothing in it, showing how she’d make money and turn her life around.
She was making money hand over fist, but the livestream took a somewhat different turn from what she’d expected:
She was hawking her wares while viewers gossiped about passersby.
She was cooking while viewers gossiped about the neighbors.
She was talking to her handsome husband while viewers gossiped about her.
Her follower count was steadily growing, at least.
They were either gossiping or on their way to gossip.
And the tips kept rolling in.
Viewers were either swooning over Gu Chiqiu’s looks, joining the matchmaking squad, or making comments that repeatedly flirted with the line of getting the stream banned.
But she really was just a down-to-earth streamer trying to make money.
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For ten whole years, Gu Chiqiu was used, abandoned, and trampled on. His closest relatives deceived him, and the whole world despised him. Even with power that reached the heavens and all beneath it at his feet, he had no one to share his glory with.
After being reborn, he was blind, his hopes of passing the imperial examinations were ruined, and he was so poor he had to pawn his trousers. Yet the wife forced to marry him didn’t leave him. When he offered to divorce her, she even gave him a thorough scolding and refused.
Gu Chiqiu decided he would treat her well for the rest of his life.
Many years later, Gu Chiqiu ascended the throne and made her his empress.
One day, as he passed the empress’s chambers, he heard his little wife muttering to someone:
“At first? Of course it was because Gu Chiqiu was handsome and could bring more viewers to my livestream.”
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Emperor Gu touched his face and said calmly, “Tell the study that I have important state affairs to discuss with the empress.”
(Meng Shi had no idea why Gu Chiqiu was acting up in broad daylight, making her admit that he was not only handsome but also gentle.)
[Reader’s Guide]
1. Although she transmigrates into a palace intrigue story, the focus is on farming and everyday life.
2. They marry first and fall in love later. The heroine transmigrates into a book, and the hero is reborn.
3. The hero’s eyesight will recover.
4. Don’t be fooled by Gu Chiqiu’s innocent appearance (doge).
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After Becoming a Great Shaman, She Leads the Nation to Greatness
Geng Yue is an excellent hydraulic engineer. After she transmigrates, she’s always careful not to draw attention. She even borrows a friend’s cattle farm to prepare meat, never daring to do it herself. But then a will unexpectedly elevates her to the highly visible position of Great Shaman.
The Great Shaman oversees all ceremonies in the land, ranks alongside princes, and is granted a thousand acres of fertile farmland and the revenues of ten thousand households.
Geng Yue: “I get paid to pretend to be a mystic? Heh, superstition is great for business.”
One day, a stone bridge in the outskirts of the capital collapses, and people are swept away. Geng Yue is summoned to guide the souls of the dead.
After squatting by the river for a long time, Geng Yue, who doesn’t know how to perform rituals, resignedly takes off her ceremonial robes. She knew it. No matter where she went, she couldn’t escape the fate of a construction worker eating dust on a worksite.
The next day, stories of the Great Shaman’s compassionate act of personally repairing the bridge spread throughout Luoyang.
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When Geng Yue first became the Great Shaman:
Believers: The Great Shaman is a woman? We’re doomed. Praying won’t work anymore.
Impoverished scholars: An ignorant woman, a puppet of the great clans.
The emperor: It’s getting cold. Time to get the Great Shaman to step down.
Later:
Believers: Want to get rich? Build roads first! Follow the Great Shaman, and the God of Wealth will come to your home!
Impoverished scholars: No w... Great Shaman, please explain the three laws of mechanics to us again!
The emperor: The Great Shaman is indeed worthy of her reputation as an educator of the masses. Allocate another thirty million taels in funding and five new construction projects. Local officials are to follow her orders.
Under Great Shaman Geng’s leadership, roads were built, dams were raised, crop yields increased, livestock farming became more scientific, and even the army’s combat strength improved by a whole level, sending the northern barbarians fleeing in defeat.
After working overtime at a construction site for three months, Geng Yue wiped the dust from her face and smiled. “I was promised a stable job just for pretending to be a mystic!”
[The cold-on-the-outside, warm-on-the-inside workaholic emperor X the seasoned, laid-back construction engineer heroine who becomes the Great Shaman]
"Bonus Scene"
When the emperor first realized how capable the Great Shaman was:
Emperor: I’ll give you the funds and the people. Don’t come back for the Mid-Autumn Festival, or for New Year’s. Hurry up and finish the job. There’s more waiting after that.
After the emperor developed certain irreverent feelings toward the Great Shaman:
Emperor: You didn’t come back for the Mid-Autumn Festival, and now you won’t come back for New Year’s? Surely you’ll be back for the Lantern Festival?
(That’s what happens when you shoot yourself in the foot. In the end, he could only move his residence to the construction site and keep the Great Shaman company while working overtime.)
[Reader’s Guide]
A satisfying infrastructure-building story, with the plot at the forefront.
The romance is slow-burn, and the heroine has a slight everyone-loves-her aura. The hero has no harem and is a workaholic.
This is a fictional setting with many original elements. Some names of places and official titles are based on references, but they have been changed beyond recognition to serve the story. Please don’t nitpick the details.
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Theme: As long as life goes on, keep striving.
It's so funny, this bandit's den is almost becoming a rookie station, hahaha
It's really about setting up a stall to make money, but the rest is more like paddling.
I saved the novel for several days and finished it in a while
This chapter mentioned that the heroine ate hawthorn cake. Hawthorn is very unfriendly to pregnant women and can easily cause uterine contractions and lead to miscarriage. The royal doctor in the palace helped the heroine detect her pregnancy and should have suggested some taboos for pregnant women. Hawthorn should not be included in the heroine's food!
Hahahahaha. Meng Shi: I got my wife for free, and I got it for free. I can't even tell if they are a couple.
The article is very interesting. Do you like to read this kind of pastoral style article? Looking forward to the big update.
Hahahahaha free workers are coming
It seems like the comments have been swallowed up, so cheers!!!
Entered V! Entered V! What a great guy!!!
It's in V, it's in V!! What a great guy!!!