You transmigrate into a palace-intrigue romance game with four devastatingly handsome male leads to pursue and several captivating palace-lady characters. Unfortunately, you're just an insignificant random concubine with no character setting at all, also known as a cannon-fodder concubine.
You don't mind, because you brought the game's inventory with you: 23.33 million taels of silver and a warehouse full of gold, silver, and jewels. No one in the entire game world is richer than you, and you can live a happy life without currying favor with the emperor. Unfortunately, you discover that the game has a "player character."
"Player character" is short for the game's "primary controller." She exists outside the world and manipulates the game. Every choice she makes affects the direction of the plot. To you, trapped in the game world, she is the "controller of fate" standing beyond the world, the "God" of everyone in it.
At this point, you choose:
a [Befriend the fellow outsider, let the player character beyond the world discover you, and have her protect you.]
b [Pursue the four male leads and steal them from the player character, so she can no longer play the game.]
Remember, you only have one life. Your choices are inextricably tied to your survival.
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The frail, aloof puppet emperor; the calculating, inscrutable cross-dressing beauty; the icy leader of the hidden guards; the seductive, fun-loving regent; and twelve concubines, each with her own biography and storyline.
Knowing everyone's background and weaknesses is the only leverage you have.
Oh, no, wait. You have money too: money beyond counting, impossible to spend, enough to raise ten rebel armies!
Ming Fu slammed down her teacup. "I choose C."
The Eye of God overlooks the insignificant, but an ant may yet fight a great tree.
c [To hell with the player character. I'm the protagonist!]
* The main text is written in third person.
Theme: The brave refuse to let others control their fate.
