The Monarch's Sole Favorite (Female-Dominated World)

[Upcoming in this column: My Nemesis Became My Cat [Female Alpha, Male Omega], The Boss Lady Stops Pretending to Be Sweet and Soft. Come check them out!] An easygoing, sweet, doting ancient-style romance about a couple who marry before falling in love, gradually discover the good in each other, and find comfort and healing together. A matriarchal setting, with a strong female lead, a weaker male lead, and male pregnancy. A germaphobic emperor who seems gentle but is truly cold-hearted X a proper-seeming but genuinely adorable empress consort who wants to fight in the harem but has no one to fight Zheng Jiayang X Shan Yiling ·, ★☆, ·, Synopsis, ·, ◇◆, · The annual selection of consorts had come around again. Zheng Jiayang did everything she could to refuse, debating the ministers in court until she finally got the selection canceled on the grounds that the imperial treasury was empty. Zheng Jiayang had suffered from severe germophobia since childhood and disliked close contact with others. The only person she could tolerate, and had to tolerate, was the empress consort. She had hidden it well. Even the empress consort believed the imperial harem was an ordinary one, unaware that all the palace attendants were merely for show. Shan Yiling was lucky. The late emperor had chosen him and bestowed him upon the then crown princess, now emperor, as her primary consort. When the new emperor ascended the throne, he naturally became the empress consort. To marry into the imperial family and live in the harem without knowing how to scheme was to invite terrible bullying, a miserable fate, and even trouble for one's birth family. Especially when the emperor did not favor him. But so what? In the harem, staying alive was enough. Shan Yiling was eager to show everyone what he could do and prove that he was not so easy to bully. But the people in the harem... did not scheme at all. They only competed with one another! And they competed over absolutely everything! Attendant Wen: I ate twenty crystal dumplings yesterday. Precious Attendant Zhen: I ate ten big pork and cabbage buns. Attendant Lu tucked a loose strand of hair behind his ear: I ate three huge pig trotters. Delicate, frail Attendant Luo: I... I ate five huge pork knuckles! QAQ To keep the harem stable, Zheng Jiayang kept finding ways to give everyone something to do: Not bad. Reward them. Shan Yiling: ...? This harem is doomed sooner or later... Regarding the point of view: The story uses both leads' perspectives. It leans more toward the male lead early on, then shifts toward the female lead from the middle onward. Since the female lead's perspective takes up more time, she is listed as the lead. ·, ★☆, ·, My Nemesis Became My Cat [Female Alpha, Male Omega], ·, ◇◆, · Female Alpha, Male Omega. The heroine, Wen Muzheng, has catnip-scented pheromones. The hero, An Lie, is an Omega pretending to be an Alpha, and can turn into a cat. * Wen Muzheng was one of the Federation's extremely rare S-rank Alphas. From the day they enrolled, she and An Lie, also an S-rank Alpha, were at each other's throats and saw each other as enemies. If nothing unexpected happened, after graduation they would join the Federation military and continue being nemeses. Unfortunately, An Lie was murdered, and news of his death spread. At the time, Wen Muzheng was at the training grounds. She had just climbed down from her mecha when she heard the news, and merely gave a lazy smile. "What does that have to do with me?" That night, rain poured down. Wen Muzheng went out and found a filthy little cat on her way back. It was injured, had sharp claws, and was fiercely proud, shunning people and refusing to be touched. Its eyes were the same color as An Lie's. So what if it was wild? Her pheromones smelled like catnip, after all. Wen Muzheng released her pheromones and, with a clear conscience, forcibly carried the little cat that had come rubbing against her home. No one knew that An Lie was not dead. He was the cat, and an Omega pretending to be an Alpha. Live under the same roof as Wen Muzheng and let her raise him? He would rather die. As soon as they got home, An Lie ran away despite his injuries. Once, he had been Wen Muzheng's equal in strength, but now he was only a cat. He was caught before he could even get outside, and soon every door and window in the house was sealed. He attacked, but she deflected him. He hid, and Wen Muzheng released her pheromones again. Releasing pheromones so brazenly around an Omega was downright sexual harassment!!!! An Lie's fur stood on end, but he couldn't resist the allure of catnip. He ran over to rub against her hand again. Once he came to his senses, he meowed at Wen Muzheng for a full twenty minutes. His voice went hoarse, but he kept cursing her out. Wen Muzheng smiled as she scratched the cat's chin. "What do you want to eat?" "Meow!" Nothing! Wen Muzheng liked the little cat who clung to her and meowed. Even with a bad temper, it was truly adorable. She lifted the cat by the scruff and gazed into its beautiful eyes. Then she suddenly said, "Whoever did this, I will never let them get away with it." Her voice carried a hint of murderous intent, soft yet resolute, as if she were making a vow she would never break. Her gaze drifted, unfocused, as though she were looking through him at someone else. An Lie's struggling front paw paused. Its pink paw pad landed with a soft smack on Wen Muzheng's chin. "...Meow?" * Some time later, An Lie regained his human form. He remembered only that he was a cat and that Wen Muzheng was the human who had raised him. She had taken such good care of him. Although he didn't know why he had turned from a cat into a person, he had to go find her and make her keep raising him forever. Forever. ·, ★☆, ·, The Boss Lady Stops Pretending to Be Sweet and Soft, ·, ◇◆, · A heroine who appears sweet, soft, and full of praise but is actually at the very top of the power scale X a hero who dotes on his wife but is, in truth, always being doted on by her in return. Wen Xuening X Huo Jun. A modern cultivation setting. Huo Jun had a beloved girlfriend named Wen Xuening. She was beautiful, had a sweet voice, and when she smiled, her eyes curved and two dimples appeared. She was the very embodiment of a sugary-sweet little tangerine, a little sweet bean sent from heaven. Wen Xuening wasn't just pretty; she had a wonderful personality, too: He moved a table. Wen Xuening: "Darling, you're amazing." He cooked some noodles. Wen Xuening: "Huo Huo, you're so capable." He unscrewed a bottle of mineral water for her, and Wen Xuening handed it back with a smile, saying: "This is actually for you." Huo Jun couldn't begin to describe how much he liked her. Everyone who knew Wen Xuening said she deserved to have a boyfriend. She knew how to act sweet and praise people. When she gazed at Huo Jun with her chin in her hands and her eyes curved in a smile, she was so focused that the little stars in her eyes seemed capable of becoming real and illuminating the rest of Huo Jun's life. So Huo Jun proposed. Holding a bouquet of flowers, Wen Xuening didn't accept right away. Instead, she asked, "If I weren't the person I am now, would you still love me?" Huo Jun had never seen any old photos of Wen Xuening, so he thought she was talking about her looks. But he hadn't fallen for her appearance. He had fallen for all of her. Huo Jun immediately promised her earnestly, "I love you. No matter what you were like in the past or what you become in the future, I'll love you." "You said it." Wen Xuening's eyes curved as she smiled and agreed. Spiritual energy was scarce in modern society, and the world had entered a low-martial era. The glorious days of cultivators flying through the sky on their swords, like a thousand years ago, were long gone. Now, anyone who could fly on a sword was considered an elder-level figure in their sect, and there were fewer than a hundred of them in the entire world. In the past, flying on a sword had only been the first step on the path to cultivation. Oh, these days it could no longer be called cultivation. At best, it was a way to stay fit. Wen Xuening woke after a thousand years of slumber and slowly shook her head at the sorry state of the cultivation world. The heir to a renowned cultivation sect had actually become a street magician. When he performed the trick of swallowing an iron sword, he used a collapsible prop sword. After the performance, Wen Xuening, who had been watching from the street, couldn't help but mock him. "You're really amazing." Huo Jun was delighted by the praise. "Thank you!" Wen Xuening: "..." What kind of idiot was this? He was so annoying to look at. But the more she watched him, the more she found the idiot growing on her. Unfortunately, Huo Jun seemed to like soft, sweet girls. Wen Xuening, who was about as far from soft as one could get, bought a book called How to Win a Man's Heart by Acting Cute and decided to teach herself how to ensnare Huo Jun. She kept up the act perfectly until Huo Jun proposed. She hadn't even revealed that she was a cultivator. But she couldn't keep pretending forever. After accepting his proposal, Wen Xuening felt that the two of them were bound together now, and gradually began to reveal her true nature. If Huo Jun dared to regret it, she had a hundred ways to make him swallow his regret just like that iron sword. 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