The Phoenix Lord Reigns Above

Complete! Please beg for five little stars~

Original title: The Phoenix Lord Above. P.S. The heroine is a gentle, laid-back, soft girl who is forced to strive for success.

Blurb 1: Yun Xiu, a modern-day wage slave, transmigrates into the body of a frail, sickly princess who died young, in a matriarchal kingdom...

As delicate as a willow, she gasps for breath after a few steps.

She is a stark contrast to the young women around her, who can split bricks with their bare hands and lift enormous cauldrons. Her weakness has also kept her from taking a husband.

On top of that, she is practically invisible, just another nobody in the imperial city.

Yun Xiu thinks she will spend the rest of her life surviving on medicine and idling away her days in the imperial city. But who could have guessed that, after being blinded by lust for a moment and saving a slave, she would end up being pushed onto the imperial throne by that little slave? QWQ

Help! How do you become a good emperor? It's my first time, I have no experience! The most I've ever done is be the group leader in elementary school, checking whether my classmates had memorized their lessons!

But after giving the question serious thought, Yun Xiu decides she needs to improve medicine, make weapons, and grow more crops?

ε=(?ο`*))) Sigh, another day of being forced to work for the people of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Blurb 2: Ever since the empress ascended the throne, the officials of the Great Zhou Dynasty have been walking on eggshells.

The Phoenix Lord is domineering, men wield power, and the frail new emperor is nothing but the Phoenix Lord's puppet, a captive kept in the inner palace.

As the person at the center of it all, Yun Xiu wholeheartedly agrees.

This outrageous little slave kisses her especially fiercely, particularly when she so much as glances at another beauty. And in everyday life, he's clingy to no end.

Later, the officials come around too. They never expected that the frail new emperor, coughing up blood as she takes her medicine, would compile medical texts, draw military maps, and grow a miraculous grain that feeds the people.

A historian of later generations writes: "Emperor Yun's talent, virtue, and achievements will endure for a thousand generations. She also kept away from male beauty and governed with diligence. It is only a pity that her life was cut short so young. A truly lamentable and tearful tale."

Modern-day A Xiu sips milk tea as she flips through History of the Empresses. Seeing the praise, she can't help blushing.

She does like beautiful people, but first, they're too expensive, and second, she's afraid of her husband.

#The importance of having a virtuous (jealous) husband behind every good empress#

The Empress's Notes: Every day I ask myself three questions: Did I clock in on time? Did I argue with the remonstrance officials? Did I kiss my Phoenix Lord before court?

Blurb 3: Chu Mochan is a kind-faced but ruthless man. He schemes and plans, yet the struggle for imperial power leaves him trapped in a quagmire and reduced to slavery.

His final scheme succeeds, bringing that soft cough to his ear exactly as he expected.

A delicate figure, not at all like a woman.

He raises his eyes and sees the so-called sickly beauty.

"You're a handsome one. Why don't you become my personal attendant?"

She is gentle as water, yet keeps her distance from the crowd. He knows that this time, only he will fall into the trap, but he throws himself in without hesitation all the same.

He struggles his way upward, climbing to the very top. He wants to place the best things at her feet, so that no one in the world would dare look down on her.

"I never wanted any of this. I saved you back then only because I thought you were handsome."

Only then does Chu Mochan understand: this is his tribulation.

And from that moment on, Chu Mochan spends half a lifetime's effort keeping the empress bound to his side.

He is her eternal slave, and her eternal Phoenix Lord.

[You love my heart, I cherish your beauty. By this karmic bond, through a thousand kalpas, we remain bound together. - The Shurangama Sutra]

A seemingly aloof but truly gentle, indifferent, sickly beauty of a heroine x a scheming, green-tea, obsessive, devoted-dog hero

#I only liked your face, but you wanted my heart#

P.S. 1. This is an unconventional matriarchal-world story. Personally, I think it can be read as a romance. Women give birth, and the biological functions of men and women have not been reversed. Don't come for me, everyone has their own preferences, sob. I just like this, hmph. The heroine grows over time and will probably become a diligent, capable empress.

2. The male lead is the one in the blurb, an extremely calculating green tea. His two great goals in life are to gently encourage the heroine to become a good empress and to defend his position as her primary husband by taking on the little foxes who try to seduce his wife.

3. He forces her into marriage and takes her by force. The male lead seizes the realm for the heroine. She becomes empress after chapter forty.

Coming soon: After Stealing My Uncle's Wife

Blurb 1: Jun Jinyu is as beautiful as the Water-Moon Guanyin, yet was born rebellious, refuses to follow the rules of male virtue, and is determined never to marry.

Until he discovers a secret of his uncle's: a beautiful doll is hidden away in his uncle's household.

Snow-white hair and red eyes, but sadly, those eyes are blind.

Later, his uncle marries for an alliance, and the jade-like doll is abandoned in the back courtyard, left without anyone to care for him.

He watches the poor doll lean against the door day after day, waiting for his uncle to return.

One day, unable to hold back any longer, he imitates his uncle's nature and voice, orders someone to kill the loyal servant, then gently says to the jade-like doll, "My wife, your husband has returned."

Blurb 2: Yimi is an orphan who is blind in both eyes. She is raised by a nun at the church and never forgets her adoptive mother's teachings.

"Your life is destined to be devoted to the selfless God and all the people struggling in this world of suffering."

She is God's most devout believer.

She cares for orphans, delivers babies, and takes in the elderly, hoping only that the people of this world will no longer suffer.

Even after being sold to the East, Yimi still holds fast to her faith.

At the time, her limbs are shackled, and she is forced to stand barefoot on a platform. A noisy crowd gathers below. She hides her fear, confused and helpless, until an arm wraps around her.

She cannot understand his words or see what he looks like, but he saves her.

Yimi resolves to repay her benefactor.

But one day, two benefactors appear before her.

And they're both fighting to marry her?

Only then does Yimi learn that the Eastern land the people of the West yearn for is a matriarchal society where women rule over men.

Here, women take husbands, and men marry wives.

But what does that have to do with her?

From the moment she became a nun, everything a believer has belongs to God.

On the day Jun Jinyu's identity is exposed, he is not cast aside like a worn-out shoe.

His beloved wife presses her hands together and rests her forehead against his.

She looks as gentle as can be, yet every word she speaks cuts to the heart.

"God will forgive you. Turn back from the sea of suffering, and you may yet understand the bonds of our past lives."

"Ami, will you still love me?"

"God loves all living things. He will love you."

A frail but resilient albino nun heroine x an obsessive, calculating hero who creates his own substitute-love story

Reader's notes: 1. The heroine is truly weak, a genuinely gentle and saintly nun who would sacrifice herself to save others. Her only special skill is handicrafts. She's the kind who really does live off her wife in a matriarchal-world story, so if you want a strong heroine, please click away. P.S. The hero forces her into marriage and takes her by force. This is a romance with a BG pairing dressed up in a matriarchal-world setting.

2. The setting has women giving birth. The East is matriarchal, though it used to be patriarchal and there is a reason it changed. The West is patriarchal. There is no transmigration. The heroine is an ancient Westerner who travels to the East on a slave ship. This probably won't be a power fantasy, and may be melodramatic, with the old-school mistaken-benefactor trope.

3. I like stories where the weak overcome the strong, hence the first note. If you don't like pretty, soft girls, absolutely don't read this! If this trope isn't your thing, definitely stay away!

4. The male lead is no good person. He's playing the role of a villainous male supporting character. He schemes, acts pitiful, and will kill and rob. His refusal to follow male virtue means he's unruly and defiant, but chaste in body and heart.

5. This is a male-rivalry story. The boys in the novel only think about how to marry the heroine. The author also loves writing heroines with a harem of admirers, the kind of Mary Sue plot where all the male supporting characters love my girl! If you don't like that, read with caution!

Revised on 2022/3/5 and 2022/4/23

Theme: Embrace the light, break free from the mire, and grow strong through adversity