The Empress's Harem

[Three sisters reborn + no male lead + cozy palace life as empress]

The three Yun sisters take very different paths. The eldest enters the palace and becomes the empress of Great Xiliang.

The second marries into a marquis’s household and becomes its esteemed mistress.

The youngest, Yun Shu, has the fewest choices of all, and marries a poor scholar.

But later, both her elder sisters fight tooth and nail, willing to give up their places as empress and the honorable mistress of the marquis’s household just to compete for that poor scholar. They even come to blows over him.

The Yun parents say, “Choose one: enter the palace and become empress, or marry into the marquis’s household and become its mistress.”

Yun Shu smiles faintly. “Either would be better than marrying that pervert.”

The future emperor, whom her reborn sisters compete to claim, is secretly fond of men beneath his devoted exterior.

His supposed exclusive favor in the harem, and his claim to choose just one among three thousand beauties, are nothing but a front. He gives everything to the man who has completely bewitched him, while using her as a cover.