I Didn't Know My Husband Was a Woman

Sima Yanhua, a sweet, clueless flirt and little charmer (male lead) vs. Shang Yuan, gentle as jade, pure-hearted, and taciturn (female lead)

Sima Yanhua, the Jin dynasty's Grand Princess, is peerlessly beautiful. Everyone admires her, but few know that this Grand Princess is actually a man.

In his previous life, rebels laid siege to the capital, forcing him to flee. Because he was famed as the most beautiful person under heaven, his half-sister poisoned him to death.

Raised from childhood as a delicate young lady, Sima Yanhua is reborn with fragmentary memories. Remembering his tragic death in his previous life, he clings without hesitation to the renowned General Shang Yuan, hoping only to find shelter in this turbulent world.

On their wedding night, he glances at the general's ample chest, then at his own perfectly flat one, and asks in confusion, "Husband, why are we different?"

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General Shang Yuan has a secret: she is a woman. But she has another secret, too: she seems to have fallen for the peerlessly beautiful Seventh Princess.

She had planned to keep her feelings secret forever. Then came the happy news that the Seventh Princess would marry her. After a moment of silence, she married the princess, thinking that if the Seventh Princess ever regretted it, it would be too late.

Usually composed, she was all smiles on their wedding day. She had read plenty of books and prepared for every eventuality on their wedding night, but... could a woman really have a flat chest? Could she really be a naked little white chicken?

Her smile froze on her face. On their wedding night, she needed a moment to collect herself.

P.S. The male lead has a gender identity disorder.

"Coming soon: The Cannon Fodder Empress in a Matriarchal Novel"

Ming Qing transmigrates into a matriarchal novel as its cannon fodder empress. The good news is, she has a harem of three thousand! The bad news is, not one of them belongs to her!

The gentle and refined Empress Consort smiles like a spring breeze. But he is vicious at heart, lurking by the original host's side only to avenge his white moonlight.

The Noble Lord is spoiled and willful, with delicate looks, and loves to cuckold the original host. He's promiscuous and, later on, resorts to murder to keep her from discovering that the child isn't hers.

Zhaohua, a beautiful and innocent foreign prince from the Western Regions, has pale skin that turns red at a touch. He's sweet and adorable, but he's also a yandere...

The only one in the harem who seems to like the original host at all is the son of a minor official. He looks very much like the Empress Consort and is hugely ambitious. But later, when he realizes he's a substitute, he joins forces with the Empress Consort, pursues power, and kills the original host.

What has marriage ever done for women?! The empress weeps and resolves to stay away from men.

Then, with a beep, the obligatory transmigration golden finger System comes online and forces her to follow the plot.

Empress: Should I give up and do nothing? I mean it.

I've been waiting for them to kill me, but they won't make a move.

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

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

But later, one after another, they beg me to come back.

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

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

Oh! They're actually going to cry!

But what makes them think they have any right to? I wonder, resting my chin in my hand.

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After the plot completely falls apart, she remembers everything. It turns out she is the original host. She clutches her head and laughs, going completely mad.

The once gentle and refined Empress Consort begs for her mercy like a pitiful 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 as he begs pathetically, "I'm not dirty."

The twisted, lovesick foreign prince cuts off his own legs 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 Consort's clothes to wear. Standing on a cliff, he asks her with bitter resolve, "Who do you really love?"

Content warnings: The female lead thinks she transmigrated, but actually she is...

The male lead only appears in an extra and has little presence.

Men can give birth. Women's reproductive anatomy is normal; it's the male anatomy that's unusual. Men's penises are curved, with suction-cup-like heads that can draw eggs from women's bodies, and they have a womb pouch inside.

All four men in the harem face a collective reckoning, and all get bad endings.

Silly in the beginning, angsty later.

Theme: Women should be independent and strong.