Li Yong tipped a female streamer 990,000 yuan, only for her to fall from grace.
"How much have you tipped me? You didn't even tip a full million. Why would I give you the time of day?"
He'd already poured his entire fortune into her. No!
After jumping into the river, he transmigrated into a general in the service of the Great Zhou, a man who shared his name.
"General, the empress is incompetent and unrighteous. Please follow the will of Heaven and seize her throne."
What! His subordinates wanted to put the imperial robes on him and make him emperor?
"Oh, no! You're making my life miserable!"
With enemy troops at the gates, they'd fought their way all the way to the palace. The silly, sweet empress was actually asking him to withdraw his troops?
(Wait, my father is the Prince Who Guards the South, with 300,000 troops at his command. I'm also betrothed to the empress. Why would I rebel?)
The rebellion failed and he married the empress666
To explain in unison, the male protagonist was originally engaged to the female emperor, and they were childhood sweethearts before the emperor's father founded the country. Moreover, the male protagonist's father was a king with a different surname. He had a large number of soldiers and was completely free from the constraints of the court. Before all the old emperors died, they wanted the female emperor to marry the male protagonist so that they could take back their military power!