Making Money by Eavesdropping on Gossip in a Wealthy Family [System]

Tan Mo transmigrates into a book, landing in a romance-focused story about wealthy families. The male and female leads are caught in a game of chase, with him pursuing and her trying to escape.

The good news: she hasn't become the silly, sweet heroine, the vicious female antagonist, or the domineering male lead.

The bad news: she's become the domineering CEO's assistant.

That's right, the kind who has to take care of everything the moment the male lead calls. For example:

“Assistant Tan, if my wife dies, I'll have you buried with her.”

“Assistant Tan, the weather's getting cold. Make the Wang family go bankrupt.”

“Assistant Tan, hang my wife from the city wall until she admits she's wrong.”

Tan Mo: ...What a disastrous start. Let's just destroy everything.

“Wait a second, don't rush to destroy everything. I'm a gossip-eating System. The bigger the gossip you uncover and the more emotionally worked up the leads get, the more money you'll earn,” the System says.

Tan Mo: ???

So later on:

While the original novel's leads are enjoying a romantic dinner, Tan Mo tells the original heroine, “Miss Xu, Young Master Nangong Lie just told his first love that he misses her.”

Xu Xiaonian angrily flips the dinner table and starts freaking out. Her emotions are through the roof.

System: “Five million yuan deposited.”

While the original novel's male lead is lovingly slipping a gemstone ring onto the heroine's finger, Tan Mo tells him, “Young Master Nangong, Miss Xu is still in touch with her beloved White Moonlight. She says he's the one she loves most.”

Nangong Lie angrily throws the ring away and starts losing it. His emotions are through the roof.

System: “Five million yuan deposited.”

That night, the original novel's leads are sleeping peacefully in bed.

Tan Mo shakes them awake. “Young Master, Miss...”

Nangong Lie, seething with resentment, says, “Assistant Tan, even if my wife is cheating on me, can't you wait until I wake up to tell me? I can't take any more of this craziness.”

Xu Xiaonian: “Same here, Assistant Tan.”

Tan Mo: ...

*

Tan Mo never expected that one day,

she'd be able to make money just by munching on melon seeds, basking in the sun, and watching crazy men and women act out scenes like, “Do you love me or your White Moonlight?”

The overworked wage slave becomes a boss, and gets hopelessly hooked on making money.

Question: Do you have any plans to get married in the future?

Having seen too many lovesick men and women, and crazy couples in love, Tan Mo says, “Who'd think about dating? Isn't making money great? Isn't making money great?”

Question: Would you date a colleague?

Tan Mo snaps, “Didn't I say I don't date? I don't date! Only someone with something wrong with their brain would date a colleague...”

Before she can finish, a man knocks and walks in, then clears his throat.

Smelling a familiar fragrance, Tan Mo suddenly sits up straight and smiles. “...Lu Xingjian is the exception.”

Lu Xingjian is interviewed.

Question: People are curious. Assistant Lu is clearly so capable, so why are you content to be beneath CEO Tan? Did she force you?

Lu Xingjian: “No. My teeth are bad, so I like living off a woman.”

Question: What is your relationship with Assistant Tan?

Lu Xingjian: “I'm her most loyal lackey. I was before, I am now, and I will be in the future.”

Characters: Penny-pinching female CEO x well-behaved, secretly scheming male assistant

Reading guide: The male lead is Lu Xingjian

------Next book: blurb for What's Wrong Now, Young Lady?------

One day in May, Meng Zekui comes to Shen Yuncheng to break up with him.

As she is about to leave, a sudden downpour begins outside. Even through the glass, they can hear the rain pouring over the entire city.

“What am I going to do? I can't get home.”

“Why worry? Just keep staying here.” Shen Yuncheng hooks her hand and pulls her back onto the bed.

“But... Lu Ran...”

“Don't worry. I'll let you go back.” With that, he seals her lips with a kiss.

On the bedside table, Lu Ran's number is connected.

That day's downpour trapped Meng Zekui in this city, and, even more, in Shen Yuncheng's bed.

Theme: Life is something you fight for.