Matriarchy: The First Phoenix Guard

[Ancient setting + matriarchy + strong heroine + pure wish fulfillment + straightforward and ruthless + meme emperor + one-on-one romance + light, simple writing]

The assassin Lan Tong transmigrates into a matriarchal novel.

To her great misfortune, she becomes the First Phoenix Eunuch of the Narcissus Kingdom, a tyrannical chancellor with power over the court and a reputation that makes everyone want her dead.

But not a single person in the world dares to tell her the truth.

Everyone lies to Lan Tong and tells her she's a loyal minister.

With no memories of the original host, Lan Tong has no choice but to grit her teeth and start doing good deeds, naturally using the methods of a corrupt official.

Nobody expected that a corrupt official turning into a loyal one would be even more terrifying.

She assists with state affairs, oversees construction, digs canals to fight floods, and leads troops into battle.

The empress watches as the once-bribery-loving, wicked chancellor turns over a new leaf and makes the Narcissus Kingdom stronger and stronger. Deeply moved, she kneels in the ancestral hall and cries for three days and three nights.

"Father, I knew you'd left such a wonderful person to help me!"

Lan Tong says, "Enough talk. Here's a proposal to make all the defeated Japanese pirates build the Great Wall. Sign it."

She helps the lazy empress handle court affairs, leads the army to expand the territory, and has to stay on guard at all times against all the handsome men trying to climb into her bed.

Eventually, rumors spread among the people that although the Ninth-Thousand-Year-Old is a eunuch, every night she throws out all the handsome men who sneak into her bed.

"Heh... a eunuch?"

The most beautiful man under heaven looks at his increasingly rounded belly and glares at the much-praised Ninth-Thousand-Year-Old.

"You're a eunuch?"

Lan Tong says, "Yes."

The beauty smiles like a flower. "Then this child definitely isn't yours."

For the sake of the baby, the Ninth-Thousand-Year-Old, who has called herself a eunuch for many years, finally bites...