Rumor Has It the Empress Prefers Women

Upcoming: Marrying the Emperor Is Better Than Marrying the Crown Prince. The Crown Prince’s pursuit of his wife failed. Read the blurb in the author's profile or at the bottom of this novel.

Blurb: Wen Ayao, a voracious reader with ten years of reading experience and an unshakable love of palace-intrigue novels, unexpectedly finds herself inside a palace-intrigue novel she just finished reading. She has become the empress, a character even less significant than a disposable extra.

The System tells her that her mission is to change every character's tragic ending in the book, or she'll be struck by lightning.

And so the virtuous, magnanimous, kind, and gracious Empress appears. Her daily routine is to stop everyone from engaging in palace intrigue. Her motto is: enjoying life beats palace intrigue!

Her goal is to create a wonderfully harmonious harem for Emperor Jian'an, and then she can swish her sleeves and float off to enjoy herself!

But gradually, Wen Ayao realizes something is wrong.

The concubines' daily conversations have turned into this:

"Sister, shall we go watch a play?" "Sister, shall we go admire the flowers?" "Sister, do you think this dress looks good on me?" "..."

Wen Ayao: "...How about I arrange for you to spend the night with His Majesty?"

The concubines: "No! We want to stay with you, Sister. We don't want to see that pig-hoofed man!"

Emperor Jian'an Helian Jue, a.k.a. Pig Hoof: "?!"

If they don't want to spend the night with him, then the Empress can do it!

# For certain reasons, the male lead has never touched his concubines #

# The leads don't share a scene until chapter fifteen #

Upcoming: Marrying the Emperor Is Better Than Marrying the Crown Prince

In her previous life, during the struggle for the throne, the head of the Wen family had favored the Second Prince. But Wen Xueying was in love with the First Prince, her childhood sweetheart, and wept and pleaded with her father to switch sides and support him.

Doting on his daughter, the head of the Wen family had no choice but to change allegiance and help the First Prince ascend the throne. In the end, however, the entire Wen family was executed.

Wen Xueying never got to see her coronation as empress. Instead, she received a cup of poisoned wine and the news that her entire family had been slaughtered.

As she lay dying, Wen Xueying thought: She had been blind.

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She had thought she would bear the guilt of having caused her family's death for all eternity, but unexpectedly, Heaven gave her another chance.

She would pay back every last debt from her past life.

At first, she schemed to marry the Emperor solely to eliminate all her former enemies. She intended only to use this nearly forty-year-old Emperor, but in the end, he was also the one who gave her a lifetime of happiness and splendor.

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As the founding emperor of the Jing Dynasty, Jing Yuan had weathered every kind of storm. Still, when he heard that the Duke's youngest daughter was willing to enter the palace and attend to him, he spilled the tea in his hand.

Jing Yuan rubbed the reddened skin on the back of his hand and thought, "Doesn't she think I'm too old?"

Though Jing Yuan had no intention of marrying a girl in her teens and bringing her into the palace, an unexpected turn of events brought her there anyway.

Now that she was his, he would naturally protect her and give her a peaceful life.

Jing Yuan even wrote his final decree in advance: if he ever died, she was to be allowed to leave the palace.

He never imagined that, as he kept protecting her, he would come to want to spend the rest of his life by her side.

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In his previous life, Jing Huanyu had always thought that nothing in the world could compare to his father's throne. But after he actually sat upon it, he realized that nothing could compare to Wen Xueying, the woman who had given him her whole heart.

But she was already dead.

Fortunately, he was reborn. This time, Jing Huanyu vowed to protect Wen Xueying.

But she became his Empress Mother...

Male lead Jing Yuan, seventeen-year age gap, happy ending with the female lead. If that bothers you, proceed with caution.

Second male lead Jing Huanyu is reborn alongside the female lead. His pursuit of her ends in tragedy, and he has a tragic ending with her.

Theme: Women should be independent and strong.