A Background Character Awakens to Gossip in Their Face, and Their Inner Thoughts Are Exposed! Someone Save Me!

Xu Jianian had spent twelve years transmigrated into a book when she suddenly awakened and realized she was a minor character in an imperial examination novel.

She became a minor character not because the original owner was a girl disguised as a boy studying at the Imperial College, but because her father was the future prime minister's superior when the male lead first entered government service. The original owner had brief contact with the male lead for three months, and when the male lead mentioned her gender-neutral name, "Jianian," her father broke into a cold sweat.

That was the entirety of the original owner's role.

But! Why didn't the book mention that this ancient academy for the nobility had just one bathing option: a huge wooden tub? And her page had to haul the water?

Where's the washroom? The faucet? Somebody help! Wait, they don't have those either? Aaaah, whoever wants to live in this ancient world can have it!

With basic living conditions so inadequate, Xu Jianian had no way to avoid the hardships. But who could have guessed that life at the Imperial College would be such a chaotic mess?

She went to use the toilet. There were only two private stalls. She was constipated, and the person in the next stall was being intimate.

The male lead, who "wanders through a garden of flowers without a petal clinging to him," was passionately kissing a man!

Princess! Your future consort is gay! Your Majesty, your son-in-law is gay!

She tried to study in the dorm, but the soundproofing was awful. She was immersed in a sea of books while the people next door reveled in carnal pleasures.

The male lead, "brilliant enough to write poems worth eight bushels of talent," was trading sex and money with a talented poet for poetry!

One kiss for one line, and a deeper kiss for another poem?

There's a gay guy here! Wait... how does the male lead have no talent... Oh, the original didn't explain how he came up with his poems either? Well, borrowing other people's work does make sense...

--

Unbeknownst to Xu Jianian, life at the Imperial College was utterly miserable.

They discovered... they could hear Xu Jianian's thoughts! And they couldn't tell anyone outside about it!

One day they heard that the standout commoner genius in their year was kissing a man. The next, they heard this commoner genius could marry a princess. The day after that, they heard the genius was fooling around with someone in the dormitory!

Did they come here to study or to sleep with people?

Wait, how can you hear her thoughts too?

By the time they finally banded together to support one another and share each day of being subjected to Xu Jianian's thoughts...

An unexpected turn of events occurred:

The princess, the emperor's most beloved young daughter, fell in love at first sight with the commoner genius?!

No, Princess, don't! That man is so promiscuous!

--

Xu Jianian couldn't make sense of it. This place was like the original story, but also not like it. The male and female leads fell in love at first sight, but never got together. The male lead became famous for his poetry, but was soon exposed as a plagiarist. The male lead...

But it didn't matter. She didn't need to understand any of it.

After graduating from the Imperial College disguised as a boy and coming first in all three stages of the imperial examinations, Xu Jianian finally became a promising young top scholar and made a life for herself. She was no longer just a passing mention in a book, but a top scholar whose name would be recorded in the history books!

Later on,

The Outcast, the esteemed prime minister who stood above all but the emperor, didn't have to be the male lead alone!

Theme: Everyone is the protagonist of their own story!