Jiang Xian, the ultimate corporate overachiever at a top tech company, transmigrated.

Before transmigrating, she had just sought help from a doctor for her anxiety: "I feel sick if I don't work overtime for a day, and I can't breathe properly if I take a day off. What should I do?"

A friend asked: "Is your illness contagious? Come stay at my company for a while, and spread it around!"

After transmigrating, she arrived in the slow-paced harem, where everyone was idle. 

She was going crazy from the lack of work!

So she, without a second thought, started hustling like her life depended on it.

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An anonymous concubine: In November, when the snow was heaviest in the Capital, Jiang Daying danced in the Plum Garden every single day! Good heavens, is it necessary to work yourself to death? Vying for favor is not something we, on our measly salary, should worry about.

So that same year, Jiang Daying was promoted to the rank of Beauty, while she was still a lowly concubine.

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Later, it was rumored that Consort Jiang had a bad relationship with her stepmother. After her stepmother gave birth to a son and came to the palace for an audience, the Lady gifted her a fifteen-character calligraphy piece to be hung over her step-brother's bed—Four thousand three hundred and seventy days until the imperial examination.

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When it comes to making her presence known to the boss, Jiang Xian is a professional.
Have you ever seen the harem at 3 AM?
The concubines wake up at five, she at three:
While the concubines were admiring flowers, gazing at the moon, watching plays, and gossiping, she was practicing dancing, singing, and her instruments, meticulously studying the big boss's preferences. Excelling in both professional skills and flattery, Jiang Xian believed that if she continued to roll like this, the boss would surely think of her first for promotions and raises.
And the Emperor had seen countless methods of vying for favor.
Yet, he truly only remembered Jiang Xian—
This woman is so deeply in love with me!

All Liang Yuyin knew about the self-sounding clock was that it told time.


After a moment's thought, he didn't rush to haul the object inside to claim credit. Instead, he went in to report to the Emperor. "The item brought from Yizhu Pavilion is a self-sounding clock. It's said that Noble Lady Gu personally modified it and installed a mechanism inside." He presented the loose-leaf notebook with both hands and relayed Noble Lady Gu's instructions, his expression one of simple honesty. "Does the Emperor wish to place it in the storeroom for the collection..."


"That won't be necessary. The study happens to be missing a clock."


The Emperor cut him off before he could finish.


'Clearly, the Emperor's heart still favored Noble Lady Gu.' Hearing this, Liang Yuyin understood everything perfectly. He replied shrewdly, "Then this servant will ask the Palace Attendants from Yizhu Pavilion how to operate this mechanism."


Chapter 93 - Chapter 76: Daily Little Essay