The Ming Dynasty's God of War Is a Tentacle Monster

My next novel will be The Imperial Consort Is Said to Be Considerate. It's a Lanji romance. Please add it to your collection!

Blurb:

While traveling in the South Pacific, Xie Yunluo met with an accident. As seawater filled her lungs, she hallucinated that she was passionately kissing a peerlessly handsome man.

When she opened her eyes again, she had transmigrated into the newly crowned Empress Wang of the Ming Dynasty.

Emperor Yingzong of Ming, Zhu Qizhen, had led a campaign against the Oirat and was captured. The court officials enthroned Prince Cheng, Zhu Qiyu, as the new emperor, while honoring Zhu Qizhen, the “Oirat hostage,” as Retired Emperor.

Empress Wang was the new emperor Zhu Qiyu's wife, whom he had married before ascending the throne.

Her husband was gentle, her daughter well-behaved, and Xie Yunluo quickly adapted to her new identity and life after transmigrating.

She thought her days would pass in peace, but then the Retired Emperor, far away among the Oirat, returned covered in blood.

They said that after he was captured, he spent some time despondent. Then one day he suddenly went mad, seized a warhorse, killed a fierce general, and drove back more than a hundred thousand Oirat cavalry all by himself.

The emperor guards the nation's gates, and the ruler dies for his country. He had done it, but he hadn't died.

The Ming court and imperial harem: What?

After the Retired Emperor returned, he deposed the new emperor and imprisoned him in the Southern Palace, but left Xie Yunluo untouched, allowing her to remain in Kunning Palace with all the silks and delicacies she could want.

From that day on, Xie Yunluo dreamed every night. She dreamed of kissing a peerlessly handsome man, and of countless tentacles gently caressing and enveloping her, as the two of them accomplished an unbelievable act of reproduction amid a fishy-sweet scent.

*

He was the last deep-blue jellyfish in the South Pacific, and reproduction was his responsibility.

As he sank to the ocean floor, ready to reproduce on his own, he was drawn to an alien female who fell from the sky, and came up with a bold idea.

He marked her, but she took him to a strange world.

When he first transmigrated there, he was in the middle of his breeding season and hungry every day. Fortunately, he was surrounded by plenty of aliens whose energy he could absorb.

After filling his belly, he followed his mark to find her and tangled with her every night, until he finally got her pregnant.

After she became pregnant, she was always anxious and afraid. She made up all sorts of excuses to avoid him and keep him from getting close.

Ten months later, she gave birth amid great pain to a beautiful male... alien.

The baby was beautiful, like her. He wasn't a little jellyfish, but he was still very much to the father's liking.

To keep her from feeling anxious or in pain, and so he could hold her as they slept every night, he decided to find a way himself.

P.S. 1. A derivative novel set in a parallel world. No historical nitpicking, and many thanks for understanding.

2. Both leads transmigrate, and the male lead is nonhuman.

Upcoming novel:

Hai Lan transmigrated into the body of Hai Lanzhu.

The original was beautiful, short-lived, and a little spoiled.

She used pearl powder as a face mask and changed cooks every seven days.

She and her younger sister, Bumbutai, didn't get along, and whenever they met, she always made a snide remark.

She was still young, but she spoiled herself right into the grave.

Hai Lan: I'm not like her.

She ground Eastern Pearls into powder for face masks, ate imperial cuisine, and sampled delicacies from the northern steppes to the south of the Yangtze.

When she found someone annoying, she simply pretended to be sick and skipped paying her respects to the Grand Consort.

One night, after being summoned to attend the emperor, he got caught up with work and didn't go to her until midnight. She turned him away at the door.

The Grand Consort: “Sleeping for your beauty? Outrageous!”

Bumbutai: “...You're even more spoiled than you were at home.”

The next day, after court, Hong Taiji went to discipline the audacious woman.

The palace maid's hand shook in fear, smudging the lacquer on Hai Lan's long fingernails.

Hai Lan frowned. “It's so ugly. The emperor can fix it.”

Hong Taiji had no idea how to paint nails. When she complained, “You're only making it messier,”

he lowered his eyes to her fingertips, then looked at his own dragon robe.

Her nails couldn't get dirty, but his dragon robe could?

*

Bumbutai was reborn.

She knew her elder sister Hai Lanzhu was favored, but had a short life.

Once Hai Lanzhu died, Bumbutai would have her moment of glory and become empress.

But as time went on, she realized everyone seemed eager to spoil Hai Lanzhu to the skies.

The emperor's first question after court was, “How many pastries did the Imperial Consort eat? Do we have enough pastry chefs from Jiangnan?”

Hao Ge, for the first time, grew his hair long, hoping Hai Lanzhu would call him handsome.

Dorgon hunted a sable and eagerly sent it over to trim Hai Lanzhu's cloak.

Bumbutai looked at the perfect image she'd worked so hard to maintain and felt confused.

Had someone... handed her the wrong script?

*

Everyone thought Hai Lanzhu was impossibly spoiled, but no one could do anything about it.

Only Hai Lan sometimes looked at that breathtaking face in the mirror and wondered, “Am I not being considerate enough?”

Theme: Love transcends everything