Help! Am I Even Allowed to Hear This?

[Complete] [Dark, twisted villain x laid-back lie-flat slacker] Shen Xingyao transmigrated into a book. She became a nameless, bottom-tier actress from the story, and when she arrived, she was about to sign a two-year marriage contract with Zhou Yanlin, the book’s most cold-blooded, sinister, and obsessive villain. The contract was right in front of her. Twenty million a year, two luxury villas, an unlimited supply of designer clothes, shoes, and bags, plus various other perks. After the wedding, she wouldn’t have to fulfill any obligations, and she should avoid Zhou Yanlin unless absolutely necessary. The only condition: whenever Party A needed her, Party B had to play along. She had never seen such a heaven-sent bargain! Shen Xingyao, whose eyes lit up at the sight of money, shut her eyes and signed! The night before signing, Shen Xingyao unexpectedly got a gossip System. [Host, do you want to change your fate as a cannon-fodder character? Do you want to understand the entire plot more thoroughly? Then bind yourself to our Gossip System! Gobble up all the gossip, and leave no wild rumors anywhere to hide!] Whether she wanted to bind it or not, it seemed she only had one choice. There wasn’t even a “No” option! With no other choice, Shen Xingyao had to bind herself to it. After binding herself to the Gossip System, the door to a whole new world slowly opened for Shen Xingyao. At the banquet, the women were beautiful and poised, the men impeccably dressed. They chatted and sampled wine, and host and guests alike seemed to be having a wonderful time. [The hosts of this banquet are supposedly loving and devoted, treating each other with respect like a model couple. It’s all an act! In reality, the husband plays around all over the country and keeps mistresses everywhere. He even gathers them all together for group fun. The wife often visits male escort clubs for a good time and keeps a young lover too. Her current one is still in college and younger than her son!] [The son of the Liu family doesn’t look like his father because he isn’t his father’s child at all. His father has low sperm count and can’t have a son. He was fathered by his mother and his paternal uncle, and his father knows about it!] [The girl recently engaged to the eldest son of the Hu family is the illegitimate daughter the boss’s second wife had out of wedlock.] [Young Master Li is having an affair with his young stepmother.] [Good heavens, Boss Gong looks so impressive when he’s out and about, but at home he’s completely henpecked! He loves BDSM with his wife. He’s the submissive one. Who would’ve guessed? Who would’ve guessed? Who would’ve guessed?!] Shen Xingyao, who had come to the banquet with Zhou Yanlin, was terribly bored. Just as she was starting to nod off, the System spoke. After hearing it, Shen Xingyao perked up instantly, utterly astounded: ...So this is the legendary dirty laundry of the wealthy? My eyes have been opened. I’m shocked to my core! As a bottom-tier actress, she went to the set to play a minor character with just one line. [Best Actor Bai married his assistant a long time ago. They even have a child, a three-year-old daughter.] [The female lead went to see Best Actor Bai last night and failed, so she went to see the second male lead.] [The second female lead had a threesome with the director and assistant director last night.] [The second male lead isn’t just fooling around with the female lead and second female lead on set. He’s also with the third male lead. He swings both ways.] Good heavens, what a tangled mess. She couldn’t look at them the same way again. In the spirit of sharing, Shen Xingyao told Zhou Yanlin all the gossip every day. Zhou Yanlin: No, I don’t want to hear it. He refused out loud, but his ears perked up of their own accord. At some point, the two of them started sleeping in the same bed every night. One evening, Shen Xingyao had just finished showering and climbed into bed. Beside her, Zhou Yanlin was using his phone to discuss work with someone. [Zhou Yanlin has secretly liked you for a long time. He even secretly changed his phone wallpaper to your photo. Don’t believe me? Go look!] Shen Xingyao instinctively glanced at Zhou Yanlin’s phone: ... She’d been devouring gossip by the truckload every day, until she was fit to burst. But finding out she was the subject of the gossip herself was something else! [Plot idea noted on 2022.10.30 in the author’s note for Chapter One of “The Crown Princess of a Matriarchal Kingdom Becomes an Idol in the Entertainment Industry”] Theme: Pay attention to people’s livelihoods, both big and small.