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After Transmigrating as a Study Companion, My Novel Made the Empress Beg for Updates

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Lin Xiaoman, a poor young man, transmigrates after death and becomes a lowly study companion to the concubine's son of the Minister of Rites. To pass the time, he writes a folk novel *Tales of the Jianghu*, which is secretly taken by Su Wantang—a lady disguised as a man—to take the imperial exam. Unable to sit for the exam as a woman, she uses the "folk script" to stand out. Unexpectedly, the article reaches the palace: the Empress stays up all night reading it and can't sleep, then issues an imperial decree the next day to summon the "author" for updates! Lin Xiaoman panics: he has to hide his transmigration identity, deal with Su Wantang's "threat to borrow more scripts," and face the Empress's "urgent requests for updates." But Su Wantang has long seen through his secret and deliberately ties him up with the novel—they develop feelings amid the tug-of-war. The court officials are stunned: the Empress is neglecting morning court for a "script"? Even more explosive: the "author" is just a study companion, and Su Wantang, who "used the script for the exam," is about to have her female identity exposed...

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