My Pitiful Older Stepbrother (Matriarchy)

My new novel, Writing a Pure-Love Story in an Explicit Fiction World, is now updating. Come check it out, cuties! Ji Xiaochan transmigrates into an explicit novel set in a world where males vastly outnumber females. She becomes the wicked supporting female character who meets a tragic end. To change her fate, Ji Xiaochan resolves to stay away from the male and female leads, but then she receives a notice demanding an enormous bachelor tax. It turns out that in this world, where the male-to-female ratio has reached an astonishing 10,000 to 1, females receive preferential treatment in every aspect of society. But once they reach adulthood, they must marry at least three male spouses. Otherwise, they will either be forced into a marriage or face a hefty bachelor tax. Ji Xiaochan is desperate. To avoid being forced to mate, she starts writing online fiction to earn money. In this explicit-fiction world, the content may be over the top, but its spiritual and cultural life is terribly impoverished. Love is supposedly just exchanging a glance, then instantly giving in to passion. A romance plot? There isn't one at all. Ji Xiaochan: How about I unleash a pure-love story? Won't you lot of perverts lose your minds? She gets straight to work and takes out her keyboard. [On the tenth year of my secret crush on the girl of my dreams, I accidentally discover a photo of myself hidden in her notebook.] Male beastfolk comments: [Are you dreaming? Females are so rare they can't even get around to favoring all the males every day. How could one have a secret crush?] [Hahaha, another beastman who's gone crazy from pining for a female. Go wash up and get some sleep.] [...Something's not right. We're already on chapter two, so why haven't they gone to bed yet?] Later [Waaah, is this the charm of pure love?] [You damn author, what did you put in this story? There's not even a kissing scene, but why am I so hot?] Ji Xiaochan ignores the controversy and keeps writing. [After my wife's first love returned to his home planet, I voluntarily stepped aside and gave up my place as her male spouse, but she refused to sign the divorce papers.] [My “daughter” is getting married. As her adoptive father, I accompany her to choose a male spouse. She rejects every one of them, then finally turns her gaze toward me.] After one hit novel after another, Ji Xiaochan finally pays off her enormous bachelor tax. Only when she looks up does she realize she's surrounded by people. They eye her hungrily, hemming her in from every side. The self-conscious, floppy-eared gray-rabbit heir to a wealthy family: “Chacha, I'm good for nothing except my money. I can only beg you with all I have. Will you let me become one of your male spouses?” The heir's gentle but aloof white-fox stepfather: “Xiaochan, my son is inexperienced and clueless about how to please a female, but I'm different.” The down-and-out, proud wolfdog she picked up by the roadside: “Ji Xiaochan, I'll work hard to reach the very top, until I qualify to be your stepping stone.” The black-snake marshal who looks down on everything: “I'll eliminate every rule that displeases you.” The mechanical monster that destroyed a planet in the original novel: “Master, the destruction or survival of this planet is in your hands.” [Story blurb] Gentle female lead * pitiful male lead in the early stages, disturbed male lead later on Cheng Song'er transmigrates into the body of a wicked cannon-fodder character who shares her name in a matriarchal romance novel. In the original story, the cannon-fodder character is a terrible person: she beats her family, gambles, lusts after men, and even plans to sell her stepbrother to a brothel for money. As luck would have it, she transmigrates right at this moment. Seeing Cheng Qingzhi bite his lip as he fights back tears, looking so pitiful, she softens. She puts the money back into the madam's hands, then reaches out to him. “Brother, come home with me.” [Reader's Guide] 1. One-on-one romance. 2. The male and female leads share neither father nor mother, and are not related by blood. Theme: Survive adversity and pursue the light.