(The core idea: The heroine has seen it all and ultimately finds true love.)
When Cheng Lingshuang loved Mei Hanzhou most,
she considered abolishing the imperial selection and keeping him as her sole favorite.
But this unattainable love couldn't be bothered to appreciate her. He was in love with her royal sister instead.
Just as she decided to give Mei Hanzhou one last chance, she caught him drunk, leaning against her sister's arms and sobbing pitifully.
So their heartfelt confessions had been fake, and his tenderness had been an act.
Her beloved had never changed his ways. He had only forced himself to smile and play along with her to protect Prince Qin.
Only then did Cheng Lingshuang realize that the person she had thought so pure was actually the most hypocritical and vile of all.
So what if he was exceptionally handsome? Her harem was never short on good looks.
So no one should expect her to go soft on anyone ever again.
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A ruler of a nation willingly getting hurt for a man... Even the coldest heart would be moved, wouldn't it?
Mei Hanzhou was no exception.
Even though the emperor had taken him by force and made him enter the harem, giving him only the lowly rank of Talented Gentleman,
she had really only done it to keep him from becoming a target for everyone.
She would sneak in through his window to see him. On his birthday, when no one else remembered, she would throw a grand lotus-viewing banquet.
...If nothing went wrong, and he knew when to stop, he could become the emperor's one and only.
But Mei Hanzhou drank too much and made a mistake.
When he came to, his clothes were in disarray, and he was leaning against Prince Qin.
Behind them, the new emperor was staring at him with a sinister expression.
He thought that this time, the princess who had once called him "Brother Hanzhou" would forgive him again.
But he never expected her to order his clothes torn off, his hairpiece removed, and his status reduced to that of a common prostitute, then have him thrown naked into the Spring Breeze Brothel.
"A pair of jade arms for a thousand heads to rest on, vermilion lips tasted by ten thousand. From now on, I don't care whom you serve, be it a peddler, a laborer, or your beloved Prince Qin."
The emperor gripped his chin, her voice utterly devoid of warmth, then flung him away in disgust.
Mei Hanzhou panicked completely.
(This is a women-dominant romance. The only pairings are male-female. No BL, and no feminine male characters. The heroine is the emperor, so she won't be chaste. After she turns dark, she dominates everyone and everything. The vicious male supporting character involves NTR. Men can bear children, but only by C-section.)
(The men in the heroine's harem are very likely to die from severe bleeding during childbirth.)
(The male lead you wanted, a male courtesan, is here! In the end, the twisted and hypocritical male lead Mei Hanzhou brings his own ruin, dies of a filthy disease, and the second male lead takes his place. Haha 😃.)
Theme: The emperor's authority must never be compromised.
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