The Crown Princess Just Wants to Slack Off and Gawk at Gossip (Qing Dynasty)

Coming Soon: Entertainment Company Simulator [1998] and The Empress After the Harem Battles Just Wants to Survive

Completed: The Marquis’s Concubine-Born Daughter Only Wants to Gossip, The Contrast Character Gossips in the Big Courtyard (Seventies), Consort Ding of Longevity Only Wants to Lie Flat, and The Contrast Character’s Easygoing Life in a Household-Battle Novel (Transmigration)

Story Blurb:

Shi Huaizhi transmigrated.

The first time, the System told her that she only needed to complete the main storyline of the life-simulation game to return to the modern world and enjoy a happy life without lifting a finger.

After working herself to the bone to beat the game, the System malfunctioned, and she didn’t make it back.

The second time, the System told her that she could go home if she finished another stage of the game’s main storyline: becoming empress, then empress dowager.

Shi Huaizhi had no choice but to agree. She wanted to find out whether the game’s “unknown dynasty” held imperial consort selection, and whether she could enter the palace that way.

But when the damn System finally lifted the background restrictions, she discovered that her surname was actually Gūwalgiya, and this was the Qing Dynasty!

Well, that settled it. She wouldn’t need to go through imperial consort selection.

An imperial decree named her crown princess and married her to Yinreng.

Everyone knew that being crown prince was one of the most dangerous jobs in ancient times. Half of all crown princes met miserable ends, and Yinreng was an especially tragic case: twice deposed and twice reinstated, he eventually died under house arrest. If even the crown prince couldn’t make it, how could his wife fare any better?

From the thirty-fourth year of Kangxi to the fifty-first, she was crown princess for just sixteen years. After being placed under confinement, she died within five or six years, not even forty years old.

The System had done her dirty!

But Shi Huaizhi soon discovered that after she married, the task had automatically been marked complete! It turned out that becoming crown princess counted as an achievement, which meant she could go home!

Yinreng had no particular expectations for his crown princess. His father had chosen her, so she was sure to be virtuous and talented, a woman fit to become empress one day.

And she really was just as he’d imagined. The young woman smiled warmly and carried herself with graceful poise, showing none of the shyness or nerves one might expect on her wedding night.

That was fine by him. He could trust her with the Yuhua Palace.

But he hadn’t expected his crown princess to be so different from what he’d imagined.

When a side consort brought her attendants to pay their respects, she really did just serve them tea and send them away immediately, leaving the side consort so flustered that she hurried to him to apologize.

When the eldest prince held a first-birthday celebration for his daughter, she really did just play with the child, leaving those who wanted to stir up discord between the eldest prince and the crown prince at a loss.

When Consort De and the Fourth Prince had a falling-out, she was asked to go comfort her. Instead, she quietly remarked, “A biased mother raises a biased son. Those two really are alike.” Yinreng was so alarmed that she might make matters worse. But when the Fourth Prince heard her, he actually laughed.

When he argued with his imperial father, she said nothing to his face, but behind his back she remarked, “A widower raising a child, hoping he’ll be a daddy’s boy. The kid doesn’t want to cooperate.”

He began to wonder whether she could really be a good crown princess.

As it turned out, she didn’t just make a good crown princess. She also made a good empress and empress dowager.

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Note: This is an alternate version of the Qing Dynasty, very loosely based on the real thing. The male lead is the crown prince, and you know what the Qing Dynasty was like, so he is not a virgin. They are monogamous after marriage.

Coming Soon: Entertainment Company Simulator (1998), Story Blurb:

Starlight is a management and life-simulation game.

Players can choose their background, looks, and talents however they like. Whether they want to become an idol, singer, actor, director, or something else, they can ultimately reach the top of the entertainment industry and become a shining star.

Shang Qingwu, an overworked office drone, often played this game during breaks. One night, after working overtime until late, she suddenly saw a choice menu appear before her bleary eyes.

“Choose your profession: actor, singer, idol, screenwriter, director, model, or agent. Countdown: 5, 4, 3...”

Shang Qingwu blinked, unable to believe it was real. She assumed she was hallucinating from working too much overtime. But after working until the early hours, she no longer cared. With a tap, she chose the last option: agent.

There was only one reason. In this game, choosing to be an agent was the only way to become a boss and start a company.

Shang Qingwu had only been working for two years, yet she’d already gained thirty pounds. She constantly used eye drops, wore medicated plasters on her neck, wrists, and waist, and could hear her own heartbeat when working overtime past midnight. Her watch often warned her that her stress levels were too high.

Shang Qingwu didn’t want to work for someone else her whole life, so of course she chose to be the boss!

Then she was sent to 1998. Hong Kong’s entertainment industry was at the end of its golden age, but it was still packed with superstars and had enormous influence. Taiwan’s entertainment industry was churning out albums and idol dramas that were about to shape a generation’s youth.

By comparison, mainland China’s entertainment industry was still a toddler taking its first steps, a completely untapped market.

Looking at the world that had suddenly changed around her, Shang Qingwu realized this was real. She gathered herself and prepared to complete her first task.

“Current task: Sign an artist. Reward: 100,000 yuan.”

She couldn’t just pick anyone for her first artist. Shang Qingwu quickly thought of someone: Ye Chen, an NPC from the original game. In Starlight, he was the villain players would encounter no matter whether they chose to be an actor, singer, model, or director.

A former model who worked in film, television, and music, he later switched careers to become a director. No matter which path the protagonists took, they were bound to run into Ye Chen, the obstacle they had to overcome to earn superstar status.

If it really was 1998, then according to the game’s timeline, he hadn’t entered the entertainment industry yet. Shang Qingwu was determined to sign him.

But when she set off full of confidence, she barely got out, “Hello, I’m an agent, and I...” before he shut the door in her face.

Why had no one told her Ye Chen was so difficult to deal with? Whenever she read his character profile, didn’t it say he was good-natured and easy to get along with?

When Shang Qingwu finally managed to sign Ye Chen and saw the 100,000-yuan reward sitting in her bank account, she was instantly resolved to sign more artists, start a company, and make a fortune!

After Shang Qingwu opened her first agency, the System told her she had unlocked the entertainment-company storyline.

Within a few years, Shang Qingwu’s agency became the top company in the country, with a galaxy of stars under its banner. It not only nearly monopolized the idol market, but also had its own film and television app and music app.

The company’s television productions became hit after hit, while its films topped the annual box office and earned more than ten billion worldwide, sweeping the world’s top awards.

Later, when people dug into Shang Qingwu’s entertainment empire, they realized that everything they watched, listened to, and loved came from the same person.

Coming Soon: The Empress After the Harem Battles Just Wants to Survive, Story Blurb:

Lin Yunqi transmigrated, becoming an empress, the third empress of the dynasty.

The first empress, Lady Zhou, was the prime minister’s legitimate daughter, wise and virtuous, and loved by all. Unfortunately, she died of severe bleeding after giving birth to her legitimate son.

The second empress, Lady Zhang, was the emperor’s cousin, gentle and refined, and clever as well as beautiful. Unfortunately, she was frail and couldn’t withstand the strain of carrying twins. After giving birth to a boy and a girl, her health deteriorated further, and she didn’t survive the winter.

A country couldn’t go a day without an emperor, and the six palaces couldn’t go a day without a mistress. The ministers petitioned for the appointment of an empress, and Lin Yunqi was chosen.

Her father, Marquis Changning, was merely a nobleman living off his family’s legacy, content to do nothing. In the vast capital, he was a nobody.

Even Lin Yunqi herself had little to recommend her beyond her exceptionally beautiful face. Her mother, Concubine Su, was a merchant’s daughter who couldn’t read a word, let alone teach her daughter.

The reason Lin Yunqi was chosen was simple: Master Huiyuan, a highly respected monk in the capital, said her birth chart was strong and that she was suited to be empress.

People were already saying that the emperor brought misfortune to his wives. The noblewomen from the families chosen as candidates were all afraid. Some fell ill, some got married, and one suddenly turned out to have a fiance, with both families claiming they had arranged their marriage while the children were still in the womb.

Seeing how things stood, the emperor had no choice but to heed Master Huiyuan and appoint Lin Yunqi as empress.

Lin Yunqi was utterly bewildered. What kind of start was this?

But it didn’t take long for her to understand. She had transmigrated into a palace-intrigue novel! She’d read it, but only skimmed the beginning and glanced through the comments before closing it. All she remembered was that the heroine was the daughter of a minor official and hadn’t entered the palace yet.

She should have memorized the whole novel when she saw a character with the same name as her! Now all she remembered was the heroine’s name. What kind of transmigration into a book was that?

She remembered saving the novel because its palace intrigue was so gripping! So what had happened to her character in the original story?

Lin Yunqi recalled that the emperor in the novel never had a third empress. That was why the concubines fought so fiercely, each making the empress’s seat her lifelong goal. Even the blurb ended with the heroine becoming empress.

Lin Yunqi remembered now. Her original self had just been appointed empress when she accidentally drowned, confirming the rumor that the emperor brought misfortune to his wives. The emperor lost heart and never appointed another empress, until he met the heroine.

The heroine had to endure being framed and slandered, losing her baby, being pushed into the water, temporarily disfigured, and nearly dying in childbirth, among a whole string of other ordeals, before finally becoming empress.

Great. How was she supposed to survive in a place like this?

And what was this System in front of her? What did it mean by “harmony level of the harem”? In a palace-intrigue novel, was she supposed to get along with everyone? Had the mainframe gotten water damage?

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