The Author Fills the Plot Hole with Their Own Body (Female-Dominated World)

Ongoing next door: The Hostage (a woman disguised as a man, in an imagined Spring and Autumn period). Please add it to your library! [The blurb for this story is at the very bottom =-=]

On the day the King of Zhao surrendered, she was sent to Qin as a hostage in the guise of a crown prince.

At the banquet celebrating the surrender, Zhao Shu was horrified to discover that a former convict slave she had once teased and pestered had transformed into the powerful grandson of the King of Qin.

Back then, she had been a spoiled, unruly wastrel, and she seemed to have done plenty to humiliate him.

As the banquet reached its height, Ying Wujie blocked her path. His spring-bright, bewitching features were filled with undisguised malice.

"Three years ago, you kept me as your male concubine and favored attendant. Today, I can decide whether you live or die... But rest assured, my lord. I despise men who love men more than anything!"

She was sentenced to work in a quarry, served as a horse handler, and even became a maid in blue who poured wine...

It was clearly she who was being tormented, yet the refined grandson of the King of Qin grew more and more irritable and unsettled.

Until Zhao Shu came to plead for her cousin under cover of night. Before him, she wept as she undid the coarse robe of a hostage.

When the candlelight revealed her secret, Ying Wujie's eyes darkened, like a beast that had spotted its prey.

In that moment, he suddenly understood that for all these years, what he felt for Young Master Shu was not only resentment, but perhaps also desire.

From then on, by day, she was a noble hostage prince of Zhao, but at night she was forced into thin silks and gauze, held on Prince Ying Wujie's lap as he treated her with casual disdain.

"Still think I'm beneath you? What does the Crown Prince of Zhao think of being held by a mayfly, a filthy little bug?" Beneath the lamplight, the man's features were so beautiful they seemed demonic. He smirked at her mockingly, then suddenly gripped her chin hard and murmured tenderly, "Call me big brother."

P.S. 1. The story begins with her country falling. Before the premium chapters, the female lead disguises herself as a man. A straight man of a thousand years is bewitched into accepting a relationship with another man... and then the female lead resumes wearing women's clothes.

2. Coercive romance + a wife-chasing crematorium, bittersweet angst, happy ending.

3. The female lead is not a powerful heroine. At heart, this is a romance. The male lead is a bit of a jerk in the first half, and there is angst. Later they both fall for each other. Neither lead is perfect. I only accept criticism of the male lead =v=

Blurb:

The author transmigrates into a story she abandoned years ago, titled The Fallen Prince and His Tyrant Wife. It's a melodramatic angst novel...

She becomes the heroine, Zhou Yao. When she opens her eyes, she sees the male lead's despairing, hate-filled eyes.

Yun Jing roars in despair: "I'll kill you, you beast!"

Is this the part where she has just bought the male lead and subjected him to all kinds of humiliation!?

Oh no! This is HARD mode from the start! Hurry up and soothe him!

By the time Yun Jing's heart has finally warmed and he wants to leave the past behind and live a good life with her...

Wait! Didn't she bury a blood feud in that abandoned story? ORZ...

No, no! Physical abuse is one thing, but emotional abuse is out of the question! She has to save herself. From then on, she works tirelessly and devotes herself to building a career. Though her beloved is as beautiful as jade, she only calls him "Brother Yun" and pushes him to find someone else.

Years later, beside the imperial lake in the palace, amidst the drifting spring blossoms, a young man in a jade crown and purple sash, tall and refined, speaks in a deep voice: "Lady Zhou, it's been a long time."

She strokes her embroidered green robe, sighing as she realizes she cannot escape him. "It has been a long time... Your Highness, Prince Yu."

In public, they belong to opposing factions. In private, a blood feud lies between them.

Everyone says that Prince Yu has detained Zhou, the palace graduate, and that she is probably doomed. But she knows it is her own heart that is in danger.

After drinking, the young man draws her close by the window. "A Yao, let's reminisce."

She looks up at the full moon. "Brother Yun, let the past go."

P.S. 1. The male lead falls for her very early. The female lead is preoccupied with the ending and only falls for him in the middle or later part of the story.

2. They belong to opposing factions for a long time, so there are plenty of twists and turns.

3. Absolutely sweet, sweet, sweet!

Blurb for Tempting the Buddha:

Princess Jiang Xiaoman falls in love with a monk from the Western Regions and uses every means at her disposal to make him abandon his vows.

"The mountain has trees, and the trees have branches. Master, this princess has fallen for you."

"All things are delusions. Laywoman, even if you keep me imprisoned for years, it will do no good."

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As they spend day and night together, unrequited love turns to obsession.

Jiang Xiaoman's hands tremble as she forces Daoyue to drink the spiced wine.

Greed, anger, love, hatred, obsession: she wants him to overcome them all.

Weeping amid pearls and jade, in a night of tangled red, the monk's eyes are no longer clear. He once thought his heart belonged only to restoring his kingdom and the Dharma.

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Years later, after the Northern Liang kingdom falls, she is shackled and kneels at the feet of Daoyue, who has restored his kingdom.

"Please, Master, spare my father and brothers, and my husband..."

The torment and coercion of the past, along with the desire of that night, weigh on him until he can hardly breathe.

Watching her walk in shackles, driven like cattle and horses, about to become the plaything of the King of Kucha, he finally snaps his prayer beads and plunges completely into this world of passion and dust.

Three months later, rebellion breaks out in the Western Regions' great kingdom of Kucha.

The new king, reeking of wine, draws her into a corner. His eyes burn with fervor. "You once said you loved me?"

["All conditioned things are impermanent, all tainted things are suffering, and all things are without self." Without seeing your star-bright eyes, I can never attain the stillness of nirvana.]

P.S. 1. The wife-chasing crematorium starts around one-third of the way in, and there is the familiar trope of coercive romance.

2. The male lead is of the royal house of Kucha. His country fell when he was young and his family was killed. He saw through worldly life and truly became a monk.

3. The female lead suffers from unrequited love early on. After her country falls, the physical abuse is only mild. The male lead suffers much more.

Theme: Study hard for the imperial examinations, enter the court and rise to high office, and serve the people.