Travel Through Time and Become an Empress, Surrounded by Beautiful Men

Modern women travel through time and become empresses, satisfying their selfish desires by establishing a "harem" and building a powerful empire. Modern women travel through time and become empresses, satisfying their selfish desires by establishing a "harem" and building a powerful empire. How does the empress use her personal desires as a tool to acquire and consolidate power, and how does power in turn distort and alienate her desires? The men in the harem went from "prey" to "tools" to possible "collaborators" or "resisters". How was their humanity suppressed, used or awakened? How did the queen's own humanity change in the midst of power?