I Caught a Pitiful Little Spy (Female-Dominated World)

The day he showed up at her manor in tattered clothes to search for his family, the gatekeeper mistook him for a beggar and sicced the dogs on him. He then risked his life to stop her carriage and present her with a token. What childhood sweetheart? That was ages ago. He was a spy sent by an enemy kingdom, posing as her childhood friend so he could infiltrate her circle and steal intelligence. But Jiang Yin saw through him at a glance. [Her childhood friend had died of illness long ago, and she had buried him with her own hands. The enemy kingdom's intelligence network isn't very good, huh?] Jiang Yin kept him around for one reason only: he looked like her "moonlight," the man who was now the emperor's most favored male consort. For money and power, the consort had turned around and broken off their engagement, hurting her deeply. So she would keep this little liar as a stand-in to ease her sorrow. Her unspoken longing for her moonlight and all her pent-up desire turned into cruelty. The little spy did everything in his power to please her for the sake of his mission, but all he got was scraps of outdated information, and he always ended up looking utterly [miserable]. [Male Lead's Perspective] Lan Xu had been taken in by the leader of the spy organization as a child and trained to be a spy. He had suffered so much. He was terrified of pain and would do anything to stay alive. He always stayed at the very back and never volunteered for dangerous assignments. The spies in the organization were all poisoned, and they received an antidote every ten days. Every time, he got up early and knelt at the leader's door first in line for the antidote. He couldn't bear even a moment of the pain when the poison took effect. If the leader hadn't picked him for the job, he never would have wanted to take on such a dangerous mission. Rumor had it that Jiang Yin was cold, heartless, and exceptionally cruel. He was terrified. But the leader had promised that if he completed the mission, he would be cured of the poison, given his freedom, and rewarded with a hundred gold coins! A whole hundred gold coins! How should he spend them? Even if his body was ruined, surely that would be enough to live frugally and peacefully for the rest of his life in some remote mountain village? He had to succeed. (Fist clenched.) [An Outrageous Soap Opera] A deranged female lead, a domineering empress, and the "moonlight" male consort: a messy love triangle. The female lead loves the male consort, the male consort loves the empress (and her money and power), and the empress loves the female lead. The empress holds her beloved consort in her arms while thinking of the beloved courtier before her. The empress wants to force the female lead to marry her, but... She has to settle for forcing the female lead's beloved to marry her instead. Possessive Empress: "If I can't have her, then I'll have the one she loves! If I marry her beloved, she'll find excuses to stay in the harem every day, and then I can see her every day too. I'm so clever. √" [The Three in the Harem: Jealousy Times Three] Whenever Jiang Yin has to watch the emperor and her consort being lovey-dovey, she gets so jealous she goes mad, then returns to her manor and drags the little spy off to make up for it. Jiang Yin looks at the pitiful stand-in with tears in his eyes and orders coldly, "Make a sound! You call me Your Majesty too!" The spy, misunderstanding her, thinks to himself: Is she finally planning a rebellion? Is there hope of turning her against the emperor? qwq Jiang Yin sighs. "What a poor imitation. You can't even copy him properly." When the male consort becomes pregnant with the imperial heir, the empress throws a grand banquet and makes Jiang Yin handle the arrangements herself. Jiang Yin smiles along on the surface, then returns to her manor and gets so angry she flips the table and smashes the bowls. Jiang Yin grabs the little spy by the throat. "Isn't the token what you want? From now on, you're forbidden from taking birth control pills! You get pregnant and have a child too, and then I'll give you the token!" The little spy gets his wish and obtains the token, which he sends back to his homeland. He holds the child in his arms, waiting for good news from his master, but instead hears that his homeland has been destroyed. So I was exposed all along. So my wife knew everything. So my wife was only using me. "My wife, you lied to me. I have no home anymore. I've been a stray dog all along." He had never had anything, except for the child he had given birth to. He put the child down and prepared to leap off a cliff in martyrdom for his fallen kingdom. Only then did Jiang Yin discover the male lead's true identity. #Who's the stand-in, really? #Which of us is the other one supposed to resemble? #My wife, you knew everything, and yet you still lost by one move. "You little liar! Don't die!" Female-led, male pregnancy, 1v1, the man suffers first, then she pursues him in a groveling redemption arc. Angst first, then sweetness (I promise there will absolutely be more sweetness than angst), happy ending. One-click cat-and-dog setting lookup: The kitty mends the wounded puppy stitch by stitch. Screenshot taken on 2023.1.20 Theme: Recognizing true love