I Wrote Erotic Articles to Seduce the Crazy Jin Yiwei (Mingchuan)

Yu Zhiwei transmigrates to the Zhengde era of the Ming dynasty and becomes the daughter of a bookstore on the verge of closing. The only good news: popular fiction is about to take off! Drawing on her experience reading web novels, she starts writing romantic tales. Just as they’re about to become a hit, she’s arrested and thrown into the Imperial Prison. The chief examiner is Gu Shousheng, a stern and aloof commander of the Jinyiwei. He tears her writing to shreds, declaring it worthless. Faced with the charge of writing “demonic books,” Yu Zhiwei says: “What? I’m just a young woman who wrote a sweet story about a couple falling in love after an arranged marriage…” She narrowly escapes death. But then an imperial decree arrives, and Lord Gu becomes her personal censor! Some platforms only forbid writing anything below the neck. This man polices everything, even flirtatious glances and the rhythm of her breathing. His vermilion notes cover the page: vulgar, frivolous, and against proper etiquette. For the money, she’ll endure it! Until she can’t take it anymore. She rises on tiptoe and pins him against the wall, whispering by his ear, “My lord asked what it means to pin someone against a wall. This is it.” The usually aloof Lord Gu goes rigid, his ears turning red all the way to the tips. Yu Zhiwei says: “If we’re going crazy, let’s go crazy together! I’m not taking all the blame by myself!” * Fortunately, her bookstore takes off. She branches out into cultural products and wins contracts to publish official editions, becoming a celebrated young woman of letters in the capital. But why is Lord Gu acting stranger and stranger? Little does she know, the stories she invents are coming true in real life. She writes about a leg injury. Lord Gu touches his leg in surprise. [Is she talking about me? What a coincidence?] She writes about the heroine applying medicine to the hero. Lord Gu has an erotic dream. She writes about the couple consummating their marriage. Lord Gu loses his composure. Lord Gu’s face turns red and pale by turns. “...She must be trying to seduce me!” On the page and off, the two of them are hopelessly entangled. From a passionate first kiss to Lord Gu pinning her against a wall when she goes on a matchmaking date. “Miss Yu, you’ve filled my mind with romance, yet you want to marry someone else?” Yu Zhiwei cries out in alarm, “My lord, I only write books to make money. Don’t put yourself into the story!” Later, desperate to win her back, he uses every melodramatic trope from her books. (Fake) amnesia, spoiling her in every way, wall-pinning romance, chasing his wife back... Yu Zhiwei: “You’ve gone crazy, you’ve gone crazy~~ I never taught you to use all these tricks on me!!” 【Bookshop proprietress and romance writer, clear-eyed money-making whiz X Aloof, desire-forbidden Jinyiwei commander, the heroine’s personal censor】 #He once dismissed the love in her stories as false, but in the end, he longed to become a character in one# #The mastermind slams the table# Emperor Zhengde: “So I’m part of your little game? Fine, I hereby order you to marry! Hahaha!” == Reader’s Guide == 1. Highlights: A story within a story, with fateful coincidences. Romance tales here means love stories about couples and talented scholars with beautiful women, not smut! The heroine values her life, and so does the author. 2. Set during the Zhengde and Jiajing eras of the Ming dynasty, the story focuses on everyday life and the sweet romance between Zhiwei and Lord Gu, as well as their daily routines and business ventures. Zhu Houzhao, the most rebellious and entertaining emperor in history, along with Wang Yangming, Zhang Yong, and other big names, make guest appearances. The historical background follows the official history, while the main plot is fictional. 3. Romance pairing: Yu Zhiwei x Gu Shousheng. They’re endgame, together for life. 4. The Jianyang Yu family is a century-old printing dynasty. The heroine has her own career and grows over the course of the story. The women in the book support one another, and each shines in her own way. 5. Reader tip: You can skip the “fending off love rivals” arc, chapters 32–35. It’s a little dull. Theme: The indomitable vitality and ideals of ordinary people in a momentous age, with love as history