Gossiping After Transmigrating into a Period Novel

This novel was completed on March 12. If you've already read it, please don't buy it again.

[My new novel next door, Lychee Record Player, is looking for readers! The teaser is at the very bottom:]

★★★ Novel Blurb:

① Jiang Yezi was a gossip-loving groundhog who had spent years roaming through endless melon fields without getting a leaf stuck to her. Gossip was her only hobby.

Just when she thought she could happily keep eating gossip for another five hundred years, she woke up as a stepmother in a 1990s wealthy-family novel, sharing the original woman's name, age, and surname.

Her biological father didn't care for her, her biological mother didn't love her, and her bargain husband and stepson disliked her. None of that mattered to her.

But her melons were gone! Her huge field of melons! Gone?!!

Back then, platforms for gossip like Weibo, Douyin, and Bilibili hadn't appeared yet. Jiang Yezi opened her eyes and stared at the Nokia in her hand. She wanted to die.

Her vision went black, and she nearly fainted. Her lips moved weakly. “I want... gossip.”

The servant hurriedly cut up some chilled watermelon and even picked out the seeds. Jiang Yezi wailed, “This melon... isn't that kind of melon.”

The servant asked cautiously, “Madam, we also have cantaloupe, muskmelon, papaya, and cucumber. Which would you like?”

Jiang Yezi nearly fainted several times.

Gu Jin, who always looked down on her, appeared at the corner of the stairs with an arrogant expression. The boy sneered, “She wants winter melon.”

Jiang Yezi knew the original woman hated winter melon most of all. “...”

② After several days of doing nothing but eating and drinking, and occasionally trading barbs with her stepson, Jiang Yezi lost her energy without her melon field. Then she got bound to a gossip-eating System.

System: [As long as you earn the affection of those around you, you can exchange it for anyone's gossip!]

Jiang Yezi: For real?

For the sake of gossip, she went through fire and water, doing everything she could.

Parents who favored sons over daughters? (No problem, she'd dote on them right back.)

A stepson who picked fights and talked back? (No problem, she'd show him what the world's gentlest stepmother was like.)

As for her bargain husband's dislike, that was even easier. (Take good care of the child, and be a well-behaved wife who wanted money, not love.)

Once she had earned enough affection, Jiang Yezi finally began her gossip-eating journey and reached the pinnacle of life.

“What? Factory Director Li and his wife are divorcing because she deliberately let someone grope her butt?”

“Huh? The pure and innocent Li Na is actually quite wild in the entertainment industry?”

“Director Li is in love with his sister-in-law?!”

Jiang Yezi didn't just eat up the gossip herself. She brought the household servants in on it, too. Before long, she was gossiping with Gu Jin as well.

Later, her bargain husband suddenly confessed his love to her.

But Jiang Yezi refused to believe him, convinced he saw her as a substitute.

Until she clicked on her own husband's melon field.

You never know until you look, and then it knocks your socks off!

“What? He's not Gu Jin's biological father?!”

“Gu Mingqi has never been married?!!”

“He even has a white moonlight?!” Jiang Yezi poked at the rice in her bowl. Then what did his confession to her mean? Men really were all pigs.

Then she looked further down:

“His white moonlight's name is... Jiang Yezi?!!”

★★★ Upcoming Novel Blurb:

I feel the universe flowing between your eyes and mine., Adonis

The day I first met Xu Song.

He wore a simple, loose black hoodie and stood by the road, listening to a friend speak, a carefree smile on his lips.

The instant their eyes met, Yu Li forgot to wipe the tear stains from her face.

Embarrassed, she looked away, but Xu Song walked over and bent down to ask, “Do you need help?”

From that moment on, her heartbeat went out of rhythm.

/

No one would ever connect the names Xu Song and Yu Li. They were utterly unrelated, worlds apart.

She was plain and unremarkable, easy to forget.

He was a heaven-blessed son from a privileged family, always at the top of his class, righteous yet wild, and irresistibly charming even when he smiled casually.

Yu Li knew her unrequited crush would come to nothing, so she quietly wrote many songs filled with her lonely, hidden feelings.

At graduation, she recorded an album to give Xu Song, but it ended up soaked in a rainstorm and never reached him.

/

Later, they met again at university.

At a department dinner, their friends teased them about being a couple.

Seeing Xu Song grow increasingly silent, Yu Li took the initiative and said, “Neither of us feels that way about the other.”

After the gathering, in a dim corner, the man pinned Yu Li against the doorway.

“Who says I don't feel that way?”

Her heart trembled, and she caught a faint scent of alcohol on him.

His grip on her wrist was tight. “Yu Li, how can you be so sure I haven't fallen for you?”

Later, the man she had always thought as bright and untainted kissed and licked her earlobe, claimed every breath she took, and wouldn't let her escape. “Baby, you know, looking well-behaved makes it easier to get up to no good.”

/

After they got together.

Xu Song stumbled upon an album blurred beyond recognition by water stains.

It was a part of her past he had never been involved in, a girl's secret crush that had nothing to do with him.

His jealousy burned fiercely, so base that he wanted to throw away her old keepsake, yet he couldn't bring himself to do it.

Before putting it back, he felt an uneven groove on the back of the album.

It was an abbreviation carved one stroke at a time: xusong.

A lonely girl's most sincere feelings.

#After listening to A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Mercury a thousand times, I locked your name and all my yesterdays into a record player, never imagining that one day you'd listen to it yourself., Lychee Record Player#

★ Reader's Note:

1. A silly, sweet, no-brainpower-needed story. The author is letting loose and may be a little unstable, so please bear with me. If it's not your thing, feel free to leave!

2. She is not a true stepmother.

3. My writing and storytelling skills are both lacking. I'm open to all readers' feedback, so please be gentle when pointing things out.

★ [Special thanks to Xiao Yan for the lovely cover.]

Theme: Refuse to be defeated by hardship, and create a beautiful life with optimism.