The Runaway Phoenix Lord Is So Dramatic (Matriarchal World)

(Not recommended. This was a writing exercise from before I signed a contract.)

A spoiled young man vs. a multiple-personality empress

The legitimate prince Tang Yu seems to have all the favor and honor he could want, but his life is actually difficult. His empress mother doesn't like him, and he accidentally learns that he's being sent in place of his younger half-brother to marry the old and ugly empress of the neighboring country.

Tang Yu: "I'm young and beautiful. How could I put up with that? I have to escape!"

On the road, he meets a beautiful young woman and falls for her at first sight, flirting with her every chance he gets.

To win her sympathy, Tang Yu keeps playing the victim. "My own mother insists on sending me off to marry an old and ugly woman. Poor little me, all alone and helpless. Isn't it just tragic?"

In the end, heartbroken, he still boards the bridal sedan bound for the political marriage.

When he sees the Great Wu empress again, he realizes: Isn't she the very woman who promised to elope with him?

On their wedding night, she raises an eyebrow and smiles. "Me? Old and ugly!" She expects him to burst into tears and frantically explain himself.

Instead, he hesitates. "Benefactor, you're actually willing to rebel for me? That doesn't seem like a good idea!"

Ming Cheng, who is the empress herself, falls silent: ...

Get a grip!

Coming soon: I Transmigrated as the Cannon-Fodder Empress in a Female-Dominant Novel

Ming Qing transmigrates into a female-dominant novel as the cannon-fodder empress. The good news is that she has a harem of three thousand! The bad news is that not one of them is hers!

The empress's consort is as gentle as jade, smiling like a warm spring breeze. But he's cruel at heart, having infiltrated the original owner's side solely to avenge his beloved.

The noble consort is spoiled and willful, with delicate features. He loves cheating on the original owner, and later, to keep her from discovering that the child isn't hers, he resorts to murder.

Zhaohua, a beautiful man from the Western Regions, is innocent and pure, with pale skin that flushes at the slightest touch. He's obedient and adorable, but he's also a yandere...

The only person in the harem who seems to like the original owner is the son of a minor official. He looks a lot like the empress's consort and is deeply ambitious. Later, after realizing he's only a stand-in, he joins forces with the consort to pursue their ambitions and kill the original owner.

What on earth does marriage bring women?! I weep, and resolve to stay away from men,

but with a beep, the transmigration golden finger's essential System comes online and forces me to follow the plot.

Empress: Should I give up and do nothing? I'm serious.

I've been waiting for them to kill me, but they still won't do it.

So I have no choice but to fake my death and escape myself.

After all, the world is so big. I want to see it, too.

But later, one by one, they beg me to come back.

I'm so embarrassed that I dig an entire palace out of the ground with my toes.

Looking at their red-rimmed eyes, I sigh. "A man who doesn't respect himself is like a rotten cabbage."

Oh! They're actually going to cry!

But where do they get the nerve? I wonder, propping up my chin.

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After the plot completely falls apart, she remembers everything. So she was the original owner all along. She clutches her head and laughs softly, utterly losing her mind.

The once-gentle empress's consort begs for her mercy like a pathetic dog, heedless of whether his family lives or dies.

The selfish man who cheated on her abandons his child and bathes over and over, his pride shattered, begging pitifully: "I'm not dirty."

The foreign prince, a twisted yandere, cuts off both his legs himself to make her turn back. In the pouring rain, blood streams from his wounds as he begs her to look at him just once.

The minor official's son goes mad, searching for the empress's consort's clothes and putting them on. Standing on a cliff, he asks her in anguish, "Who do you love, really?"

Warnings: The female lead thinks she transmigrated, but in fact, she is...

The male lead appears in an extra, but has no presence.

Men can get pregnant. Women's reproductive anatomy is normal; the unrealistic part is men's anatomy. Their penises are curved, with suction-cup-like heads that can draw eggs out of women's bodies, and they have womb pouches.

All four men in the harem face a collective reckoning, and everyone gets a bad ending.

Silly in the beginning, angsty later.

Theme: Building a strong nation and a powerful military is the right path.