I Became an Emperor for the Ages Thanks to the System’s Gossip Feed

[Updates at 9 p.m. The upcoming novel’s blurb is at the end~] Zheng Hanzhang, who was preparing for the civil service exam, suddenly transmigrates into the body of the seventh prince, a royal born to the empress and raised above all others. However, the seventh prince is actually the seventh princess. The empress has no sons, so she raises her daughter as a boy. Every day, she has to live in fear, terrified that her identity will be exposed and bring her to ruin. Luckily, transmigration comes with a golden finger blind box, and she gets a gossip System. ...It doesn’t seem very useful. But since she’s already here, Zheng Hanzhang decides to make gossip a part of her daily entertainment, listening in whenever there’s a chance. [Yesterday, Minister of Revenue Ji Pingze spent the night at a brothel and got slapped by his wife. He made sure to put on powder before leaving the house today.] Zheng Hanzhang: Ooh! [The heir to Duke Chen and his visiting cousin have confessed their feelings to each other, while the heir’s fiancee is still in the dark. ...Wait, could it be that the cousin did all this because she fell in love with the heir’s fiancee?!] Zheng Hanzhang: I’m shipping them! [The third prince and his maternal uncle, General Wuwei, are conspiring to stage a coup in three days. They plan to place the emperor under house arrest and kill all the adult princes who could challenge the third prince’s claim to the throne.] Zheng Hanzhang: Wow, gossip about Third Brother... Wait! What are they staging? A coup?! Zheng Hanzhang suddenly sees the light: I was thinking too small before, but now I get it! Three days later, the third prince leads his army into the palace, meeting no resistance along the way. But after his troops enter the imperial city, the palace gates slam shut behind them. In the next instant, countless archers appear atop the walls, their arrowheads aimed straight at him. At their head is his seventh younger brother, who hasn’t even come of age. Zheng Hanzhang: “Father already knows of Your Highness’s plan to rebel. He ordered me to wait here for you.” And just like that, Zheng Hanzhang ascends the throne on the strength of gossip. At the very moment she sits on the imperial throne, she hears the System’s long-missed notification: “Congratulations, Host, on unlocking the [Gossip System: Charge Ahead]! From today onward, govern the realm well and complete your daily check-in tasks to earn experience and expand the System’s coverage!” From then on, the gossip System’s daily reports become: [The governor of Yuzhou has embezzled the funds for repairing the river embankment and wields unchecked power in the region. He indulges in wine and women every day and has even imprisoned a scholar who discovered a breach in the embankment and beat the drum to seek justice, planning to execute him soon.] Zheng Hanzhang: Why wait until New Year’s to kill him? The history books record: Emperor Hanzhang claimed that an immortal had spoken to her in a dream. She toured Yuzhou, executed the governor, promoted the scholar, and even went to the riverbank herself to carry earth and supervise the work! Two months later, the flood came, and the people of Yuzhou all said that the emperor was an immortal descended to earth. [This winter is cold. The Xiongnu have heard that Shuofang Commandery is unprepared and intend to invade south in a surprise attack!] Zheng Hanzhang: You’re planning a sneak attack? If I don’t wipe you all out, I’ll spell my name backward! The history books record: Emperor Hanzhang anticipated the enemy’s moves from a thousand miles away, secretly sent a large army north to lie in wait, and defeated the Xiongnu by taking advantage of their exhaustion. The emperor later arrived in person and led a thousand cavalry into the enemy camp. While the Chanyu was drunk, she cut off his head in the night! From then on, our dynasty was free of threats from the north! [A wealthy young man in Jiaozhou is curious about what lies across the sea. He has raised the money himself to build a large ship and plans to sail to the edge of the world. The locals all laugh at him, saying he’ll squander three generations of his family’s wealth.] Zheng Hanzhang: Heaven is on my side! The history books record: Emperor Hanzhang heard of this and summoned the rich young man to the capital. After a long conversation, she secretly gifted him a scroll. When the young man returned from his voyage, his ship was loaded with a foreign crop called the sweet potato. The young man said, “The emperor told me it could yield nearly four thousand jin per mu!” They tried it, and it was just as she said. From then on, no one in the realm starved to death. In later generations’ ranking of history’s greatest emperors, Zheng Hanzhang wins first place by a landslide, with well over half the votes. One day, the brush will paint an emperor, and Hanzhang will stand alone through the ages. * This is my first time writing a modern person transmigrating into an ancient setting. If there’s anything that needs a content warning or anything I haven’t made clear, please let me know in the comments~ 1. There’s a romance, with one-on-one relationships at different stages. 2. After ascending the throne, she resumes her female identity. 3. No children. Neither the male nor female lead will have kids. The author is afraid of pregnancy and can’t write it at all. 4. The heroine is very powerful and hardly ever faces setbacks. 5. The heroine is everyone’s favorite. Coming soon: Making Games in the Cultivation World Blurb: After game designer Song Xuanli works herself to death, she transmigrates into the cultivation world. By chance, she joins a sect that cultivates by making money, and learns that her spiritual roots are special: if she doesn’t reach the Golden Core stage within a year, she’ll die. Song Xuanli: “...How much money does it take to reach the Golden Core stage?” Her master, dressed in a robe worth a hundred thousand spirit stones, smiles as he picks up the Enlightenment Flower, whose bidding starts at three million spirit stones. “One million spirit stones. No borrowing, no begging.” Song Xuanli: “...” Song Xuanli grits her teeth. “Fine. It’s just making money, right? How about a gacha mobile game with paid pulls, built on illusions and formations?” * At first, everyone in the cultivation world is simply amazed by how addictive this incredible new entertainment is. But soon, they realize something is off: The single-player game Getting Over It is the perfect choice for Buddhist cultivators at the Fanyin Temple to train their minds and practice the vow of silence. The rhythm game Melody Around the Beams is the best place for music cultivators to exchange ideas and share their compositions. Cultivators of the Heartless Dao should try romance games. One six-pull losing streak after another will make you experience the most authentic heartbreak, with your love gone and your heart turned to ashes. Sword cultivators and body cultivators should pick up full-immersion competitive games. Sect leaders will never have to worry about reimbursing them for broken equipment again! Talisman cultivators? Take a look at this card game. You can share guides to the strongest card and talisman combinations on the forums, debate with your fellow cultivators, and win exclusive titles! These games seem to be more than just fun!!! “Venerable Xuanli is an eternal god!” “Getting into Venerable Xuanli’s games is always worth it!” “If Heaven had not given birth to Xuanli, gaming would have been dark for ages.” “Today, I’m offering Venerable Xuanli another ten 648-yuan top-ups!” * Everyone says the number-one Sword Lord is as bright and gentle as the moon, pure of heart, and cares about nothing except the sword in his arms. What they don’t know is this: The number-one Sword Lord used to spend every last one of his ten spirit stones on raising his sword. Now he saves up six hundred and forty-eight spirit stones. And then... “All of it is for A-Li.” Message: Enrich the nation! Strengthen the nation! Unify the realm!