Daily Life of Gossiping in Ancient Texts

[Why I entered the contest: The heroine joins her fellow former bodyguards in opening a newspaper office. She puts her distinctive eye for news to work, picking hit topics one after another. They start out handing out flyers to attract readers, then move on to publishing standalone books and producing collaborative operas. The heroine and the rest of the newspaper staff work hard to grow the business, open branch offices, and eventually become the top newspaper in the capital, influencing the literature of the future as well.] Please add my upcoming novels to your collection: The True Daughter's Adopted Child Repays Her Kindness and Counselor, Please Help Me Out! My finished novel, How Do I Fix the Plot After I Accidentally Derailed It? (Transmigrated into a Book), is also available. Check it out! Blurb below. Blurb: Zhu Jiang is one of the bodyguards trained by Emperor Wen Le Yi. Normally, she should be working in the shadows to clear away every obstacle in his path. But Zhu Jiang has other plans. Thanks to her mind-reading ability, which works only now and then but is unrivaled when it comes to uncovering gossip, she discovers that some of her colleagues are from another world, and that the women she brushes past in the capital include a reborn woman and a transmigrator. Using her own and her colleagues' bodyguard funds, she opens a newspaper specializing in gossip. What is the real story behind the wealthy Qin family's new concubine? Why doesn't the only son of the Marquis of Jingyang look like his father? The true and fake daughters were switched back in a single day, but what was the reason? Why does he love her but marry her older sister instead? The Gossip Society brings you an inside look at the lives of the capital's elite. And there's plenty more serialized fiction to read, too! What? You want to know if my news is reliable? The newspaper's editor-in-chief has mind-reading powers, so you can count on us to bring you the juiciest news firsthand. The reborn woman knows a few things about the future. The intelligence division led by Zhu Jiang will become the sharpest blade in the hands of a tyrant. Rumor has it that no secret can be hidden from them. The reborn woman decides to stay well away from Zhu Jiang. But as she carefully walks past Zhu Jiang, Zhu Jiang thinks: Hm? Let's see what I've found. Even when the reborn woman tearfully writes up the love story from her past life and submits it to the newspaper, she still can't figure out how she gave herself away. The transmigrator came from the future and also knows about the terrifying intelligence division in the tyrant's hands. According to rumors, a rebellion by the three princes a few years from now will be crushed by the emperor in a single night, with the division playing a part in it. One day, she walks past Zhu Jiang. When she grudgingly writes a story for the newspaper about a scheming prince and his runaway darling, she still can't figure out when she let her guard down. Zhu Jiang: It's the mind-reading! Mind-reading, all right? Now, the submission deadline is coming up, so get writing. What do you mean you can't finish in time? Then stay up all night and finish it. * Wen Le Yi is the tyrant of legend. He orders his intelligence division to spread rumors that make him look bad, hoping to deceive the three princes and lure them out into the open. The task is given to Zhu Jiang. Her master repeatedly warns her: "Don't make the rumors too nasty, or His Majesty will lose face. But don't make them too mild, either, or they won't do the job. You're old enough to figure out how to handle it yourself." At last, one day, the truth about the mission comes to light. Wen Le Yi sits high on his throne, looking down at his subordinate, who kneels before him in a sorry state. "Who told you to spread rumors that I can't get it up?" Zhu Jiang: This is so hard. * What intelligence chief? I just opened a little newspaper! What bodyguard? Don't make things up, or I'll report you to the authorities for slander! Why do I spread rumors about the emperor and gather intelligence? That's just a contract job for our newspaper. Counselor, Please Help Me Out! (Historical Mystery) Xu Jinhuan transmigrates after going to play an escape room. She happens to stumble upon a murder scene and is arrested as the culprit. Xu Jinhuan: "I can explain! I'm innocent!" Constable: "We caught you red-handed, and you still dare to deny it? You're dressed so strangely. You must be a bad person!" Xu Jinhuan thinks she's doomed. But when she arrives at the county yamen, she sees that the magistrate sitting on the bench has the young, familiar face of her college counselor. Xu Jinhuan sees a way out and rushes over in tears, clinging to his leg. "Counselor... I mean, Your Honor, I'm innocent!" Help me, help me! Counselor, save me! You Yan: ... He looks down at his students, who are scattered like a sieve, and feels a familiar headache coming on. It's just like all those times in the modern world when he had to deal with their leave requests, absences, failed grades, and all sorts of messes. A beleaguered modern counselor who was always cleaning up after his students now has to bail out his own class in ancient times, too. Although it's bad luck to get hauled in by the authorities right after transmigrating, it doesn't matter when the person in charge is on your side. Xu Jinhuan takes it in stride and happily uses the back door her counselor opens for her to start a food stall in ancient times. The very next day, someone accuses her stall of serving food that killed a customer. Xu Jinhuan: ... You Yan: ... After her counselor gets her off the hook once again, Xu Jinhuan refuses to give up. She asks him to help her get a stall and sets up shop, only to run into a corpse-dumping case the very next day... Theme: Keep the entrepreneurial spirit alive!