After hearing her gossip, all the civil and military officials went crazy.

Chapter 5 Versailles

Fang Lingchu obediently replied, "I understand, Father. But Father, why did His Majesty give me an official position?"

Fang Yelin muttered to himself: It's all because of your feelings.

"Even your father doesn't know this. Don't try to guess what His Majesty is thinking."

"Oh"

Fang Lingchu hung her head and responded unhappily.

"Father, I'm going back to my room."

"Go."

Minister Fang watched his daughter's retreating figure, feeling very worried.

[Guagua, why do you think His Majesty gave me an official position?]

When Fang Lingchu asked the system, everyone became nervous, afraid that the system would find out that they could hear her thoughts and tell her.

I don't know, maybe they were won over by your personal charm.

【How can you be so useless? You can't do anything but eat melons. You don't know this or that. What use are you?】

[That's because you don't go out, host. I can't get any juicy gossip and can't level up. We've been in this world for fourteen years, and I'm still at level two. I only leveled up to level two today because I went to the palace and got all that gossip about His Majesty.]

Is this my fault? I don't know what's wrong with my parents; they won't let me go out, even though I've been pretending to be so obedient.

[It's alright, you're going to be an official now, so you can enjoy the show. I'll level up and you'll get lots of good stuff.]

What good stuff is it?

[It's probably some kind of system shop. It has tons of good stuff.]

What good stuff is it?

[All the weapons of interstellar space, weapons from your era, medical equipment, all kinds of potions, and if you're high level, you can even cultivate immortality, plus there are many system quests...]

Weapons? Medical equipment? Nothing else?

Also, you haven't unlocked your newbie gift pack yet.

What? You didn't even give me my newbie gift pack!

[It's not that I don't have enough energy to post; the gossip you're eating is just enough to keep me running normally.]

【understood. 】

Fang Lingchu thought about it and agreed. Now that she was a local official, her parents probably wouldn't stop her from going out.

And so they talked about the topic of one person unifying the world until midnight.

the next day.

Fang Lingchu was woken up by her maid, Strawberry.

Strawberry: "Miss, get up quickly, it's time to go to court."

Fang Lingchu: "Wait a minute, let me sleep a little longer."

A quarter of an hour later.

Fang Lingchu was still fast asleep.

Strawberry had no choice but to forcefully get her young lady to behave.

Even so, Fang Lingchu did not wake up.

The system had already woken up when Fang Lingchu was shaken by the strawberry.

[Host, get up quickly, it's time for court.]

Fang Lingchu reached out to try and knock the voice out of her head.

Strawberry looked at her master with a truly helpless expression.

Two maids could only support Fang Lingchu, dress her, cup her face, wash her, tie her hair, and put on her hat. With a hint of helplessness, they said, "Miss, wake up, it's time for court. Get up and eat something."

Upon hearing Strawberry's words, Fang Lingchu groggily opened her eyes.

"Strawberry, what are you doing, making me get up so early?"

Strawberry looked at her young mistress with a hint of helplessness and said, "Miss, have you forgotten? His Majesty has ordered you to attend court every day from now on."

"It's not even dawn yet."

At this moment, Lord Fang arrived at his daughter's courtyard.

Then they saw Fang Lingchu slumped against the maid as if she had no bones.

Seeing his daughter like this, Fang Yelin felt a surge of anger.

Fang Lingchu saw that it was her father, and then fell onto him.

Lord Fang reluctantly accepted his daughter; after all, she was his own flesh and blood.

Her daughter is great in every way, except she's a bit lazy, loves to stay in bed, can sleep a lot, and has a very active mind.

Lord Fang put the person in his car, and Fang Lingchu found a comfortable spot to continue sleeping.

When Minister Fang saw her like this, his forehead throbbed, and he felt an urge to hit his daughter again.

Upon arriving at the palace gate, Minister Fang suppressed the urge to spank her and went to wake her up.

"Chu'er, get up quickly, it's time for court." The system kept screaming in her mind.

Unable to bear the noise any longer, Fang Lingchu could only forcefully open her eyes and respond with a sound.

"Get up, Father."

Minister Fang quickly got out of the carriage and stood beside it.

Fang Lingchu got off the bus in a daze, and without paying attention, she stepped into a hole.

It fell straight down with a thud, and a little guy was cushioned underneath it.

Minister Fang covered his face, really not wanting to admit that this was his daughter.

Fang Lingchu was struggling to get up from below.

Having no other choice, he could only call out to his father, "Father, come quickly and pull me up."

Minister Fang could only go over and pull her up by the collar, like leading a chick.

After Fang Lingchu got up, she patted the dust off her clothes and smiled to cover up her embarrassment.

Then he happily followed his father.

Everyone couldn't help but chuckle as they looked at the silly little girl.

As Fang Shangshu watched his colleagues mocking him, he couldn't help but think to himself: What a nuisance.

Fang Lingchu didn't care. She didn't care about other people's opinions; she just wanted to be happy.

Everyone whispered.

"This is the first female official His Majesty specially appointed, tsk tsk tsk, is that all?"

"Yes, His Majesty also said that she has something special about her and told them to keep it a secret. Tsk tsk tsk."

That's right..."

Fang Lingchu and the others slowly walked over, their voices growing softer and softer.

At this point, the system went online.

[Host, wake up! There's some juicy gossip.]

Everyone: Who's speaking?

The system said there was some juicy gossip, and Fang Lingchu immediately snapped out of it.

[Melon? What melon?]

All the officials: Could this be the secret that His Majesty mentioned about Lord Fang?
When Fang Lingchu regained consciousness, she saw that most people were looking at her with puzzled expressions.

Fang Ling, with her unwavering resolve and disregard for others' opinions, continued to ask...

[System, what are they looking at?]

[They might have been stunned by your beauty.]

Fang Lingchu touched her face and chuckled.

He agreed, saying, "That's true. After all, my mother is the most beautiful woman in the capital, hahaha, so naturally I'm stunningly beautiful too."

Just as Fang Lingchu was about to continue bragging to the system, Lord Chen from the Hanlin Academy walked over and said, "This must be young Lord Fang."

Fang Lingchu looked at the man in front of her who wasn't particularly good-looking but had a strong scholarly air, and politely returned the greeting in the manner her father had taught her.

"Yes."

At this moment, Vice Minister Fang introduced, "This is Lord Chen from the Hanlin Academy."

"Greetings, Lord Chen."

"I've heard that Lord Fang is very skilled at poetry, which is why His Majesty has granted him an official position. I wonder when we'll have the opportunity to exchange ideas."

Fang Lingchu looked at the person in front of her who seemed somewhat hostile towards her and asked the system curiously, "System, is he issuing me a challenge?"

The system replied somewhat angrily: "Definitely, he's very hostile towards you."

Fang Lingchu continued walking towards the people in front of her, asking in confusion, "Why is he acting so arrogant towards me when I don't even know him?"

The system gave a cold snort and said, "[He comes from a poor family. His family sold everything they owned to send him to the capital for the imperial examinations. He worked hard and barely managed to rise to the seventh rank after all these years. You, on the other hand, became an official out of nowhere. How could he not be envious and jealous?]"

He despises people like you who get in through connections, especially since you're a woman. Entering officialdom without even taking the imperial examinations is bound to cause resentment. If it weren't for the fact that your emperor is a tyrant, you'd be drowned in the spittle of the civil officials.

Fang Lingchu looked at the person in front of her with disdain and said, "Tch, they blame everyone else for their own incompetence. If they're so capable, why don't they go find the emperor? Being afraid of the emperor means they bully a mere woman like me. I despise this kind of trash; he doesn't deserve to be an official. Besides, I don't even want this position. Really."

Those who had a problem with Lingchu felt that he was insulting them.

The system couldn't help but roll its eyes at Fang Lingchu's Versailles-esque demeanor.

[Host, don't you feel a bit like Versailles?]

Although no one knew what Versailles meant, it didn't sound like a compliment.

Fang Lingchu politely bowed to the person in front of her and said, "I'm sorry, sir, I don't know any poetry. Please ask someone else."

The man in front grew even angrier and was about to speak when Minister Fang said, "Lord Chen, I have something to discuss with my daughter. I don't know..."

Minister Fang looked at the person in front of him with a sharp gaze. He appeared very polite, but he felt a little nervous when he heard the name of Lord Chen.

Lord Chen of the Hanlin Academy was terrified, but he still pretended to be calm as he looked at the two of them, and eventually gave up his seat.

(End of this chapter)