Playing the Emperor’s Consort (Female-Dominated World)

The Shen family of Pingning Marquis Manor was illustrious, wealthy, and glorious. Shen Zhouning was a notorious little tyrant in the capital, a dissolute young aristocrat whose reputation made everyone steer clear of her.

As she grew older, with no proper husband to manage the household and one failed match after another, her family forced her to leave home and study. In a remote county town, the nights were dark and lonely. She drank to drown her sorrows, and had just stepped out of Yihuan House when she caught sight of a familiar face through the shadows.

The man was tied up, his hair and clothes in disarray. He had none of his usual lofty, refined air, and was being dragged along carelessly, on his way to be sold to a brothel.

Shen Zhouning saw the desperate will to live in his eyes and frowned in pain. Beneath his messy hair, he looked remarkably like that person.

But after a brief pause, she lifted her wine jug and turned to leave.

A pair of long-fingered hands landed beneath her foot. Qi Muqing had fought with all his strength to grasp at a sliver of hope. Ignoring the hand being trodden underfoot, he reached out with the other and clutched the hem of her robe.

With a hint of distaste, she lifted his miserable yet breathtaking face with her folding fan and smiled prettily. "I, this young lady, am gentle and affectionate, and have always been one to cherish beauty. But there's one person I've hated all my life, and you look at least eighty percent like him."

Qi Muqing's hand trembled around hers. Driven by his overwhelming will to survive, he uttered words he would regret countless times thereafter: "Keep me. Do whatever you want with me."

Shen Zhouning raised an eyebrow. She had to admit that seeing this expression on that face made her heart skip a beat. She couldn't wait to see him in even more miserable, agonized states.

"I don't keep idlers around. You know that following me won't be much better than going into that brothel, right? Do you understand?"

He followed her without a name or status, forced to bear the anguish she could not release and become the treasured confidant kept in her inner chambers.

He became pregnant, and she fell in love. She wanted to give him a proper status, so she applied herself to her studies in hopes of passing the imperial examinations. But on the very first day she brought him back to the capital, he disappeared.

Reading Guide:

1. One-on-one, happy ending

2. Female-dominant society, men can bear children

3. Male lead transmigrates

Coming Soon: "May You Be Well, My Wife" (Female-Dominant Society)

Xie Xuan rose from the bottom to become an all-powerful imperial tutor. The late emperor, whose health was failing and who had no daughters, entrusted her with one final task: to temper the young emperor's benevolence, ruthlessness, and political skill, using herself as his whetstone.

For this, she racked her brains and, with no small amount of selfish intent, poured all the evil in her heart onto him.

She wanted the young emperor's power, body, and fate to become inextricably entangled with hers.

From the very first day she put her plan into action, she had written her own ending: she would become the shadow over his life, and ultimately die in his arms.

But once she began, she found that no matter how cruelly she treated him, he would always smile at her. "Teacher Xie is right. Teacher Xie speaks the truth. I'll do whatever you say."

Something had to be wrong.

She couldn't figure it out. She felt she still wasn't being ruthless enough.

When she sat on the dragon throne in the imperial palace, the symbol of power, and dared to think of possessing him, he seemed to have been prepared for it all along. He was completely compliant, ready to let her do as she pleased. "Is this what you want, Teacher Xie? Do you like it? Teacher Xie, touch me..."

Xie Xuan: "?"

Coming Soon: "A Wife to Delight In" (Female-Dominant Society)

Her beloved of old entrusted his child to her.

Shangguan Zhen knelt for three days before Changqing Hall to save his son, then raised the boy in her home.

And so she raised him for eight years.

When she met her old beloved again, Shangguan Zhen had her arms around a man who looked half like him.

The man's belly was heavily swollen. He was clearly six months pregnant.

"Shangguan Zhen, how could you be so depraved? He's my son!"

Shangguan Zhen: "...No, listen to me explain."

Chen Jing: "My wife, do you still think of Father now?"

Everyone said Chen Jing was lucky to win the favor of the Prince Regent. They didn't know that at first she had seen him only as the son of an old acquaintance, and had never given him a second thought.

Everything he had now was the result of every scheme and effort he had made to keep her by his side for even a moment.

His wife saved his life and gave him children. He would be the only one at her side.

Theme: A harmonious home brings prosperity