Entering the Harem With a People-Watching System

Cen Yuanyuan is a laid-back intern reporter who loves digging up gossip and secrets. But one day, while following her team, she finds herself transported to ancient times and turned into a palace maid.

Gossip System: Do your best to write palace-harem exposés for the official account, everyone. Once you get enough views, you can go home sooner!

Cen Yuanyuan: I don't want to do this, but there really is so much gossip in the harem.

So while the maids practiced embroidery to win favor, she crouched in a corner to watch the drama unfold.

While everyone else worked hard at poetry and music, she crouched in a corner to watch the drama unfold.

While everyone fought tooth and nail for a chance to see a prince, she was still crouched in a corner, watching the drama unfold...

But as she gossiped, she somehow managed to offend the notoriously unruly and ruthless Eighth Prince, and ended up at his beck and call.

One day, a breeze scattered her gossip notes across the sky. One page landed right on the face of this living devil.

[Shocking! Consort Xi and Consort Ru come to blows over the emperor's favor!]

[Consort De meets a mysterious man at night]

[The East Palace is often filled with screams of pain from a whipping. The reason is...]

Cen Yuanyuan bangs her head on the ground: I'm doomed, doomed, doomed! QAQ

The tall figure approaches step by step, but the Eighth Prince's cheeks turn red. He clears his throat. "Does my eldest brother... really like little whips?"

Cen Yuanyuan: Huh?

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Cen Yuanyuan has no idea how it happened, but the more she shares her gossip, the more important she becomes in the Eighth Prince's eyes.

Her teammates also start coming to her for information, and before long Cen Yuanyuan has become the harem's very own know-it-all.

As the official account's follower count keeps growing, going home seems just around the corner.

Cen Yuanyuan can't help wondering how she should say goodbye to the Eighth Prince.

As she frets, she hears a familiar voice sigh beyond the screen: "Man, this play still can't beat the thrill of an IMAX 3D theater."

Cen Yuanyuan: Hm?

[A clever, gossip-loving couch potato x a tsundere, black-bellied-but-good-hearted Eighth Prince]

-SC, neither lead is perfect

-Set in a fictional world, a very fictional one. Lots of plainspoken language, and every worldbuilding choice serves the plot.

Theme: Entertainment above all