An Ancient Official's Diary of Fighting Corruption

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[Popular, well-connected, doted-on princess VS arrogant, nobility-scornful Embroidered Uniform Guard]

Blurb:

1.

The modern workaholic Li Lingyi died suddenly after working overtime late into the night. When she opened her eyes, she had transmigrated to ancient times as a high-born princess! Li Lingyi knew her chance to lie flat had finally arrived!

But then: Ding! Congratulations, you have bound to an anti-corruption System! Would you like to activate it?

Li Lingyi immediately tapped No. No one was going to stop her from lying flat!

To avoid becoming a pawn in other people's factional struggles and palace intrigues, Li Lingyi flattered her emperor father and played peacemaker among her royal brothers, successfully becoming everyone's favorite.

Just when she thought she could finally coast through life, Li Lingyi received a red alert from the System.

System: Alert! Alert! Because you have repeatedly refused to activate the System, your lifespan has been deducted. Your current lifespan balance is ninety-two days!

Li Lingyi howled at the sky. Only then did she learn that refusing to activate the System cost her lifespan, while bringing corrupt officials to justice would earn her more.

So Li Lingyi activated the System with a teary face and volunteered to travel south undercover as an imperial envoy to crack down on corruption.

Only after seeing the people living in the dark underside of this supposedly peaceful and prosperous age did she learn what it meant for human life to be as worthless as an insect...

Meanwhile, the royal relatives, sustained by the people, schemed and plotted against one another for the throne, stopping at nothing. Officials who never stopped quoting Confucius and Mencius formed cliques and embezzled disaster-relief funds and grain, leaving thousands of miles of barren land and bones as far as the eye could see.

Deeply shaken, she finally understood why benevolent people of old had lamented that the people's lives were so full of hardship.

From this moment on, she opposed every corrupt official in the land, not for her own life, but for the people!

2. As commander of the Northern Garrison's Embroidered Uniform Guard, Gao Yi often moved between the streets and the imperial court. At first, he despised every member of the royal family without exception. They lived off the people, yet couldn't see their suffering! They pursued power and profit, and would do anything to get them! Every one of them was a parasite wasting the state's funds, until he met her...

Reader's Guide:

1. This is a slow-burn story, and the golden finger doesn't play a major role. The romance and plot get equal attention.

2. One-on-one romance

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Upcoming:

Modern Romance: I Could Never Fall for a Coworker

[Her version]

After graduating from college, Geng Fan joined an internet company and became a coder, running herself ragged in a cubicle.

On top of her regular work, she had to argue with project managers and watch out for coworkers trying to shift blame onto her...

Even if her boss, Lu Yiyang, was devastatingly handsome, he still couldn't improve her daily feeling that going to work was like visiting a grave!

Then one day, her boss confessed to her at the gravesite!

His affectionate face seemed to spell out the words "I like you."

But to Geng Fan, all she saw was the giant bold text: "Weekend overtime."

Weekend overtime! Just thinking about it made her furious!

But he was still her boss, so she couldn't reject him too harshly. Geng Fan lowered her head and put on a coy expression. "I like myself pretty well, too~"

Lu Yiyang: ...

You roll up your sleeves and curse people out in the office. Aren't you embarrassed to make that face?

[His version]

Lu Yiyang used to be an actor. Later, he left show business and became the boss of an internet company, though his real dream was to paint.

In his short but eventful thirty years, he had faced two major obstacles. One brought Geng Fan into his life, and he secretly kept her in his heart for nine years. The other came from Geng Fan herself.

He thought that getting over his nine-year unrequited love would be a big enough challenge. He never imagined that it was only the beginning of his long journey to win his wife back.

"I could never fall for a coworker."

That was the answer he received when he finally worked up the courage to confess for the first time.

At the time, Geng Fan's expression was calm, but her voice was utterly firm.

His nervous, hopeful heart plummeted to the depths and shattered into pieces.

He slunk back to his office, where his friend Du Yuan mercilessly mocked him.

Later, he walked out of the civil affairs bureau holding their bright red marriage certificate, then crossed his legs in Du Yuan's office and brushed nonexistent dust from his trouser leg. "Hah, getting married isn't all that great!"

But his smile was harder to suppress than an AK's recoil...

Theme: Stand up for the world and speak for the people