The Whole Court Hears My Thoughts and Ships Couples

My new novel, The Movie Emperor's Ex-Wife, Missing for Ten Years, Is Actually a Metaphysics Master, is now updating. Please add it to your favorites!

Blurb: Sang Mianmian is a master video editor on a small video-sharing site and a prolific fan creator on a certain forum. She loves pairing up unlikely characters and shipping every couple with all her heart. That is, until she transmigrates into the scheming, turbulent imperial harem as Sang Meiren, a minor cannon-fodder character who won't survive past the first three episodes, and gets saddled with a useless System that's all talk and no action.

Sang Mianmian: What a deal!

So the lie-flat Sang Mianmian abruptly sits up and, with the System, begins a wonderful life of eating snacks, watching the drama unfold, and weeping over beautiful love stories.

But she doesn't know that the clueless System is broadcasting her thoughts every time she ships a couple!

Consort Hui and Concubine Shu have disliked each other since they were girls. From fighting over a hairpin and a dress to fighting over a man, they've been at each other's throats with great enthusiasm. One day, you frame me; the next, I set you up. And yet...

[Oh my goodness, she's so in love! All that rivalry and jealousy is just her way of making you look at her! She even came here with you because she worried you'd be lonely in the palace... Wow, yuri really is the best!]

Consort Hui and Concubine Shu exchange a disdainful glance: She likes me?!

The Emperor: So I'm just one part of your little game!

A venerable court official and a large group of ministers kneel and beg the Emperor to appoint an empress as soon as possible, take in more consorts, and fill the imperial harem.

The impassioned old minister: Carrying on the family line and having many descendants are His Majesty's duty!

[Wow, what a breeding fanatic. He's got a beard down to his waist and still won't stop taking concubines and having children. His twenty-eighth concubine just got pregnant... Wait, isn't this concubine the woman his grandson loves? Wow, then the child...]

The old minister faints. The other high-ranking officials still kneeling on the ground: You can't just stop there! Whose child is it? Is it his son or his great-grandchild?

Later...

The Minister of Justice and the Chief Justice of the Court of Review jostle to get closer, wanting to hear the truth behind a family massacre. But then...

[Wow, these two are perfect for each other! That height difference, that difference in complexion, that intellectual romance between two equally matched powerhouses. I'm in love, I'm in love! I hereby declare the Evil-Banisher Couple born!]

The Minister of Justice and the Chief Justice of the Court of Review silently move ten steps away from each other: Stay away from me!

The Emperor: Fine, you two can form a couple... no, I mean, form a team and investigate the case.

The Minister of Revenue's eyes glitter with gold. Your Ladyship, please finish what you were saying! Where's the treasure from the previous dynasty? What's this market economy? What about tax reform...

[Wow, the Minister of Revenue is so ugly, but his wife is still so devoted to him and won't leave him. That's true love! Thank goodness his daughter takes after her mother. She's as lovely as a peach blossom. I really want to cuddle her!]

The Minister of Revenue thinks to himself: Maybe I should send my precious daughter to the palace to serve Her Ladyship?

The Emperor: Get lost! Don't you dare poach my people!

The little System, useless but enthusiastic, had been planning to do its best to help Sang Mianmian survive past the first three episodes. It never imagined that it would be the one getting carried!

The sweet, naive System: Mianmian, can the Emperor really handle so many women? Aren't harem stories all about fighting for the Emperor's favor and love without drawing blood? Why do all these consorts seem to prefer clinging to you?

Sang Mianmian: What harem story? Sisters are one big family. It's called The Tyrannical Emperor Falls for Us!

The Emperor: So I married a whole bunch of romantic rivals for myself?

Ah, another perfect day of shipping couples until I'm dead!

Blurb for The Movie Emperor's Ex-Wife, Missing for Ten Years, Is Actually a Metaphysics Master

Ten years later, Xu Qiaoxi returns to find the whole world turned upside down.

Skyscrapers, glass curtain walls, busy traffic, QR codes everywhere... and ghosts mingling among the crowds, making faces and playing pranks...

She goes to an abandoned factory to investigate an evil resentment, but accidentally wanders onto the set of the variety show The Mysterious End. A red-clad ghost is weeping blood as it commands lesser ghosts to chase after the terrified guests, who are shrieking in panic.

She subdues the red ghost with one move and is just about to slip away when someone grabs her wrist.

It's her ex-husband, whom she left without a word ten years ago!

Over ten years, Ning Yuheng has gone from an unknown extra with nothing to his name to a dual award-winning movie emperor and TV king at the top of his field. He has tens of millions of fans, and more and more people love him...

But no one knows that he got married before he became famous, only to be abandoned on his honeymoon! He blames himself, feels angry and resentful, and is afraid, but most of all, he misses her...

Until one day, she suddenly appears and steps in front of him, defeating an NPC who was trying to scare him with a single move.

Her features are as clear and beautiful as ever, without a trace of age. He grabs her wrist tightly.

This time, I won't let you get away again!

Later, Ning Yuheng traps her between his arms and roars hysterically, his eyes bloodshot, looking haggard with anxiety and uncertainty.

"Where have you been all these ten years?"

Did she fall for someone else? Did she grow to dislike him? Was she being held against her will...? He deserves to know the truth before he dies!

Xu Qiaoxi stammers, tilts her head back, and cautiously asks, "If I told you I was chosen by the Heavenly Dao to become its disciple, and spent all this time cultivating outside this world... um, would you believe me?"

Ning Yuheng: ...

Great. She wasn't in trouble, and she didn't cheat. She just went straight into monastic life!

1. The cases unfold against the backdrop of the entertainment industry, but it's not that scary because the author is a scaredy-cat too!

2. This is a fictional world, not reality. Please don't draw parallels to the entertainment industry, and definitely don't take the metaphysics seriously!

3. The metaphysical knowledge is mostly from the internet and isn't professional. Please don't scrutinize it; believe in science!

4. At heart, this is a sweet story about romance and catching ghosts. It needs both plot and love!

Theme: Happiness is something you create for yourself!