I Went Viral for Writing Trashy Romance in Ancient Times

[Please add this to your reading list, mwah!] Fu Wenyu, a writer of melodramatic fiction, transmigrated to ancient times. His original body's father had fallen ill on the way to take the imperial exam. He'd spent all the family's savings, then died. That was the last straw! His greedy uncle and aunt immediately turned against them, split the family, and kicked the original body's family out. Faced with a thatched hut with a leaky roof, and his bewildered mother and younger sister, Fu Wenyu rolled up his sleeves and decided to pick up his old trade. Ten thousand words a day? No problem! The entire Fu family's eldest branch had been thrown out, and the whole village waited to see them make fools of themselves. They waited and waited, until they saw Fu Wenyu pick up his brush and start writing stories. He took the imperial exams while writing, leading his family out of Fu Village, out of the prefectural city, and all the way to the capital... Meanwhile, stories about reborn martial heroes, cultivation through the imperial exams, supernatural infinite-loop adventures, and imagined futures became all the rage across the land. And things like "merch," "stage plays," and "theme parks" sprang up everywhere, with tickets impossible to get. Not only that, but the melodramatic stories he wrote came true! While he was writing "The Real and Fake Young Masters," Tang, a wealthy landowner, discovered his son had been switched at birth by a servant. While he was writing "The Legendary Stone Gambler," the huge rock used to weigh down pickled vegetables at Granny Wang's home in the neighboring county turned out to be jade, making her rich overnight. While he was writing "A Deeply Tortured Romance," a certain marquis really did find the wife who had run away with their child years ago. They resolved all their misunderstandings, reconciled, and even recognized the daughter who spent every day giving him a hard time. While he was writing "Cultivation Through the Imperial Exams"... While he was writing "A Lovesick Fool and Foraging for Wild Greens Are a Perfect Match"... Stunned readers offered him their wallets and bowed in admiration: "Mr. Fu, write about me! Write about me!" Note: 1. There is a female lead, and it is a one-on-one romance, but she has little screen time. 2. Each story-within-a-story will have a plot section of varying length. The table of contents will mark it as "XXX Plot" and list the word count. Feel free to skip it if you don't like those parts. (The order of the stories within the story differs from the blurb.) 3. Enjoy the story, and please don't nitpick the historical details. A preview of my upcoming novel: My Father Is the First Emperor, and He's Reborn My father is the First Emperor, and he's reborn. How do I, transmigrated into Hu Hai, know this so well? Because one day my father woke up and immediately promoted Zhao Gao to Director of the Palace Carriages. Then he scolded my eldest brother Fusu for being foolish and pedantic and sent him off to build the Great Wall. The way Father looked at me was strange, too. Not long afterward, he had the cook who made him steamed salted fish executed and ordered that there be no more salted fish in Xianyang Palace!!! Well... What else could it mean? (choking back tears) According to the historical records, after the First Emperor died, Zhao Gao, Li Si, and Hu Hai conspired to have Prince Fusu executed. They buried the First Emperor's body in a pile of salted fish and transported it back to Xianyang. Finally, Hu Hai ascended the throne, destroyed his own family, and had all the First Emperor's children killed, whether buried alive, torn apart by chariots, or executed. The Qin dynasty fell after two generations. And now the First Emperor knows everything. What is this, an epic-level disaster of a family showdown!!!!!! Leans back in terror.jpg After thinking hard about it, Hu Hai opened his golden finger. He figured the only people who could save him now were Liu Bang, the future Emperor Gaozu of Han; Empress Gao, Lu Zhi; the half-immortal Zhang Liang; Chancellor Xiao He; and the God of War Han Xin. Pei County, here I come! At five, he learned the First Emperor had been reborn. Hu Hai (cowering): I must follow my heart's desire. At ten, he learned the First Emperor had extended his life by ten years. Hu Hai (rubbing his chin): The weather's turning cold. I'll send the First Emperor a cartload of salted fish. At fifteen, he learned the First Emperor had extended his life by twenty years and wanted to make him crown prince. Hu Hai (overjoyed): Mission complete. I heard if I die, I can transmigrate back to the modern world?! Air conditioning, Wi-Fi, watermelons, cantaloupes, here I come! Dying-on-purpose.jpg Theme: Hard work always pays off