How Did I Become an Empress When I’m a Man at Heart?

Name: How Did I Become an Empress When I’m a Man at Heart?
Author: Little Cat Many Fish21

本人男儿心怎么就成女帝了

by Little Cat Many Fish21 (小猫多鱼21)

Status: Ongoing
Length: 445k Words
Genre: Historical
Subgenre: Historical & Ancient
Updated: 18h ago
Source: Fanqie

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Synopsis

What is it like to have a man's soul in a woman's body?

Chen Shuo: Every day, I'm teetering on the brink of a breakdown.

He transmigrates into the eldest legitimate princess of the Great Yong imperial family, stranded in the northern frontier. From the start, he's being hunted, with only a band of starving refugees at his side.

No System, no golden finger. He can only tough it out with what he learned from his ex-girlfriends.

From fighting his way out of Blackstone Gorge to Fengling Garrison, from a surprise attack on Eagle Beak Cliff to a desperate battle in Wolf Burial Valley,

he carves a path through the northern frontier with one life-or-death victory after another.

But the real battlefield isn't the border. It's the imperial court.

Corrupt officials, powerful clans, and a half-brother who hides a knife behind his smile: everyone wants him dead.

A cold-faced guard protects him with his life, a dissolute illegitimate son swears to follow him to the death, and a calculating bookkeeper can conjure up money and provisions with a flick of the abacus.

Step by step, he means to make his way back to Jiankang.

The exes who taught him all those skills will probably never know:

The one-time playboy they taught ended up becoming Great Yong's empress.

When he finally stands in the Golden Throne Hall and watches the assembled officials bow before him,

he can't help muttering,

"How did the story take this turn... How did I end up as the empress?"

P.S. I'm crying... I wrote a historical political-strategy novel, but all the recommendations I get are for gender-swap stories. There's no sweet romance, so how am I supposed to keep readers? Honestly, before this, I didn't even know what "single male lead, multiple wives" meant. Someone asked, so I looked it up and found out. If I absolutely had to label this book, I guess it'd be single... The male-soul-in-a-woman's-body premise has an important plot twist behind it, and it drives key developments in the middle and later parts. It's not there just for the gender swap...

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