I Became the Crown Princess, but I'm Still a Wage Slave

Zhao Jiayue is the most promising Crown Princess in the Kingdom of Zhao. The Crown Prince is diligent in his duties and rarely comes home, leaving her in charge of all the silver in the household treasury. She can have whatever she wants.

And her bargain husband is handsome, proper, and uninterested in romance. There isn't a single scandalous rumor about him.

Sadly, the good times don't last. Less than half a year after their wedding, she chokes to death while eating grapes.

When she opens her eyes again, a cold, mechanical voice suddenly sounds in her mind:

[Beep! Host detected slacking off. Binding the [Work Hard or Die] System!]

Zhao Jiayue: ?

From then on, she lives the miserable life of a modern office drone.

Delivering takeout to a bandit stronghold, teaching astrology at the City God Temple, working as a professional idol at a restaurant, becoming a beauty blogger while shopping for people in a neighboring kingdom...

By sheer coincidence, every time she takes on a job, she ends up near one of the suspects Liang Heng is investigating.

Zhao Jiayue immediately reports them.

And so the criminal big shots who had been causing trouble in the Kingdom of Zhao are all taken down, one after another!

Liang Heng: Is this woman following me everywhere because she likes me?

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(Short skit: How can an unofficial Crown Princess secure her pension?)

After an ancient local gets bound to a modern gig-worker System:

[Why fall in love with an adviser? Isn't working all day exhausting enough?]

Then one day, she learns some shocking news!

There's a rumor going around the capital that the Crown Prince likes her?

Oh no! How is she supposed to explain that she can't date a coworker?

She would never pull a sneaky little stunt behind anyone's back that could damage team morale.

Back at the residence, she sees that the bedding she usually sleeps on is wet. She stammers to him, "I really didn't start that rumor."

He nods, a smile in his eyes. "Sleep on the bed tonight."

She hurriedly explains, "I really didn't do it."

"I know." After all, he was the one who started the rumor.

Later, the bedding in the residence is mysteriously soaked, and one leg of the table she sleeps on has somehow broken. The ever-generous man lifts the covers of the bed he's warmed for her. "Why don't we share?"

After all, hadn't they agreed when they married to be like brothers? And hadn't she thought nothing of his sudden change in temperament? But... why does her brother insist on squeezing into the same bed?

Then a little stick slips under the covers.

He says that, as Crown Prince, he has to help the Kingdom of Zhao increase its population.

Th-this... His aloof persona has fallen apart!

Reading guide 🔥:

1. Happy ending, both are each other's one and only. An aloof, self-controlled secret admirer who secretly loses his composure, like a rabid dog 🐿️ X an energetic office drone and workaholic Crown Princess whose secret identities are practically multiplying.

2. The whole story is fairly lighthearted. Don't overthink it.

3. The setting is fictional. The female lead is an ancient person. A System transmigrates into her and binds to her; all the jobs she experiences are modern ones.

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After three years of widowhood, Shen Qingshuang appears virtuous and demure, but she's secretly had her eye on the hunter next door for a long time.

Those broad shoulders and slim waist, the lines of his muscles shifting whenever he carries water: on the very day her mourning period ends, she's ready to remarry.

Who could have guessed that the three younger brothers-in-law she raised herself would kneel before her in unison?

"Why look elsewhere, Sister-in-law? We're all willing to carry on the family line for you."

She looks at the boys who used to be so frail, now each more accomplished than the last.

The eldest passes the imperial examinations to become the top scholar, a favorite at court. Cool and refined, he still climbs over her courtyard wall night after night.

The second becomes a fabulously wealthy merchant with connections along every trade route, smiling as he covers her dressing table with property deeds.

The third turns out to be a prince who was lost among the common folk, and now he even dares to bring the imperial seal to her.

Shen Qingshuang backs away in alarm. "This is completely improper!"

Even more absurdly, her husband, who died in battle, suddenly returns alive, bringing along a timid, delicate mistress.

The man's gloomy gaze sweeps over the hunter peeking in from beyond the courtyard wall, then over his younger brothers, who are eyeing him like hawks. Finally, it falls on the "Widowers' Directory" in her clenched hand.

"I hear you were in a hurry to put me in my grave, Madam?"

Later

The top scholar impeaches his elder brother at court: "I request that Your Majesty severely punish this man for abandoning his wife."

The richest man cuts off supplies to the general's household: "Since Eldest Brother has found a new love, don't blame your younger brother for showing no mercy."

The young prince simply surrounds the residence with the imperial guard: "If Sister-in-law doesn't want to stay here, I'll take you to live in the Golden Throne Hall."

Shen Qingshuang rubs her forehead. When I took them in, they were all such poor little things!

Theme: As long as you do your job well, life will soon turn sweet.