Also known as Becoming the Proud Hero's Stepmother
A high school boy dies after staying up all night playing video games, then unexpectedly transmigrates back to ancient times as an ordinary commoner.
People say high school students can save the world. After finally transmigrating to ancient times, of course he should put modern knowledge and technology to good use... Heh, maybe he could even become emperor.
Only later does he learn that he has transmigrated into a political intrigue novel, where the down-on-his-luck prince in the imperial palace is the true proud hero. But since he knows how the plot unfolds, maybe he can become the protagonist's right-hand man.
How can he get the male lead to notice his intelligence? The high schooler racks his brains.
The other man does notice, but by then the boy has become the male lead's stepmother.
The proud hero's father takes an unexpected interest in the high schooler, abducts him into the palace, and toys with him in every way. Showered with favor, the high schooler becomes empress, and the emperor even puts the male lead under his name. But then the high schooler gets pregnant by the emperor, and the child he gives birth to turns out to be the male lead's future political rival. What will the high schooler do for his child's sake?
A story about a poor, straight, pretty boy forced by feudal customs and men to become a pampered wife.
Male pregnancy, many disposable pursuers, and an Oedipus complex.
A real stepmother story. The pursuer is sexually chaste, but the beloved is not.
A pretty beloved who is cheerful and lively at first, then becomes sensitive and depressed vs. a psychologically unhealthy, gloomy, ghostlike emperor who has always been that way
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Theme: Oppose feudalism
