I Built a Golden Age by Exploiting Bugs

Due to health reasons, updates have been irregular lately. Read with caution. After the main storyline is mostly complete, the remaining story will be updated as free side stories. The next novel is now available for pre-release following: "I Heard the Inner Thoughts". Thanks for your support! Blurb: Wei Ying transmigrates into the body of the Grand Princess of Dali and gets bound to a Taobao System. The higher the emperor's favorability toward her, the more points she can exchange for treasures. The System gently coaxes her: "The emperor may be insane, but he's your biological older brother. As long as you work hard to win him over, you can enjoy a modern life here, with air conditioning and watermelon..." Wei Ying: "Sounds easy." So, with the few points she had left, she bought a firewood-cleaving knife for 18.8 yuan with free shipping, and hacked the insane emperor to death. The System panicked and ran around in circles. "Aaaaaaaaaah!!!" The emperor of Dali took his own life. With the country beset by internal strife and external threats, Wei Ying was called upon in its hour of need. She saved the people from suffering and was chosen as the next empress. "Now I'm the emperor," Wei Ying said, sitting on the throne. "My favorability toward myself is maxed out, right?" System: "I-I guess so?" The System sensed something was wrong and asked timidly, "Is this a bug... ?" Wei Ying declared righteously, "How can an emperor's affairs be called exploiting a bug?" "What's today's task?" The System opened the task list: [Accompany the emperor to admire the flowers. Reward: 10 points.] Wei Ying strolled around the imperial garden twice and got her 10 points. [Chat casually with the emperor. Reward: 5 points.] Wei Ying talked to herself in the air, completing the task. [Make the emperor admit that you are the person he values most. Reward: 100 points.] Wei Ying: "I am the person I value most!" Many years later, Wei Ying exploited bugs her way to potatoes and corn, penicillin, cement... and a peaceful, prosperous age filled with music and dancing. Reader's Guide 1. This is a fictional setting. Please don't scrutinize it for historical accuracy. 2. The male lead appears later in the story. 3. The four capitals in the east, south, west, and north are based on the Northern Song Dynasty: Dongjing is Kaifeng, Nanjing is Shangqiu, Xijing is Luoyang, and Beijing is Handan. This is not the Tokyo in modern-day Japan. Preview of the next novel: (The blurb is written in first person, while the novel itself is written in third person.) Ever since I ascended the throne, strange things have kept happening around me. One day, I went out for a walk and casually rescued a palace maid who was being bullied. The next day, she came to see me and presented me with some kind of world map, which gave me quite a fright. At first, I thought I couldn't let someone like her live. But the maid said she only wanted to enter my harem and serve me. Then she started talking about some System and favorability, all things I couldn't understand! Ridiculous! There can only be one person in my harem: the empress. How could I let some kind of demon enter the palace? That very night, I went to discuss it with the empress. After talking it over, the empress and I made the maid a Jieyu, to see if she still had any use to us. Another time, while hunting, I accidentally shot a woman who happened to be passing by. I felt guilty, so I let her stay in the palace for a few days to recover. Then she came to tell me that I would encounter an assassin next month and should arrange more guards. Absurd! Are the guards who patrol the palace every day blind? How could an assassin sneak in? I immediately went to tell the empress. The empress actually believed that woman. The nerve! A month later, an assassin really did show up, but the guards caught him right away. I asked the woman what reward she wanted, and she wanted to enter my harem too! After discussing it, the empress and I made her a Chongyi. And so my harem kept growing. Wang Jieyu spends every day farming in the imperial garden. Li Chongyi comes by every few days to report natural disasters expected in the coming months. Sun Cairen spends all day bickering with people through her inner thoughts. And Zhao Shufei's so-called steam engine keeps me from sleeping every night! Sigh. I clearly said from the start that I would only make the empress my consort. The empress seems quite happy, though. I'm so annoyed. I'm going to lose my mind! P.S. The emperor and empress will remain happily married for a hundred years. The women enter the harem for reasons other than fighting among themselves. Theme: Carry on the lost teachings of the sages and bring peace to all generations.