Something's Off About My Chancellor (Female-Dominated World)

* The first time Qi Yunzhao met Chancellor Qiu, famed by the palace attendants as a genius of peerless brilliance, was in the cold palace where she had lived since childhood. In the twenty-third year of Jingning, the emperor was gravely ill, the princes launched a coup, and the capital ran red with blood.

The chancellor, whose power overshadowed the court, walked through a sea of fallen leaves and stopped before her. His face was as lovely as a red blossom, his figure straight as bamboo. His elaborate crimson court robe was immaculate, without a single crease.

"Your servant, Qiu Ningxue, respectfully asks Your Highness to ascend the throne."

At the time, she thought: This chancellor really is beautiful, even more so when he bends and lowers his head.

...For many years afterward, the beautiful Chancellor Qiu stood beside her like a mountain. He was solemn and dignified, never acting without propriety, noble as jade, and renowned for his virtue.

Yet this was also the proud, unyielding sword that in the end bent, inch by inch, into tender affection, nestling in her arms.

"The blanket is cold, and I cannot find sleep. My sovereign... would you stay with me tonight?"

Qi Yunzhao had been grateful to him, revered him, suspected him, and feared him. In the end, all of it became deep affection.

She loved his noble bearing and pitied his chronic illness, his lonely past, and the fact that he had no one to rely on.

*

When Qiu Ningxue was framed by political enemies and thrown into prison, he had already prepared to have his sex exposed and take his own life.

But the little emperor, who had always been wary of him, worked tirelessly on his behalf, preserving his honor, saving his life, and restoring his position.

To repay his sovereign's favor, he would take up his jade-hilted sword and die for her.

He picked up his heart, broken into pieces, and painstakingly put it back together, intending to become a candle and burn away the last of his light.

But an accident forced him into the little emperor's bed, and afterward... he conceived her child.

The little emperor stood awkwardly nearby, glancing at him as she said hesitantly, "Why don't... you give birth to the child, Tutor?"

As if in a trance, Qiu Ningxue nodded.

Before this, he had never imagined that one day he would willingly bear a child for someone else.

He had never imagined, either, that he would lower himself to pursue a ruler's fleeting love.

He looked up to her, obeyed her, yearned for her tender affection, and feared her mercurial nature. He sank deeper and deeper, unable to pull himself free.

[Highlights]

1. My own take on a matriarchal world, with plenty of original worldbuilding and male pregnancy.

2. The female lead sometimes has the flaws of a feudal emperor. She isn't perfect. The male lead is still a beautiful, strong, tragic sickly beauty, and both leads may go a little crazy (not really).

3. This is a personal indulgence. If it's not for you, please stop reading in time.

4. One-on-one romance. The author wants to write a pure love story, so please don't ask why the female lead doesn't have a harem. I may write something along those lines in the future.

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Though young, the emperor is skilled in both letters and arms, brilliant and strategic, perceptive of every evil and rewarding of every good deed. She sits high in Mingde Hall, looking down upon all the people beneath heaven.

Everyone says the emperor is a once-in-a-generation wise ruler, sure to lead her subjects into a new golden age.

Only Jiang Tingyun knows how cruel she can be. She scorns propriety and disregards the moral order, forcing him to betray his late wife... and serve the ruler with his body.

Month after month, year after year, he cannot understand it. The emperor clearly loves his nephew so much, so why won't she let him go?

He is only an ordinary widower.

He is no longer young, nor meek, and he even has a reputation for bringing death to his wives.

He has nothing, yet the emperor's sincere, blazing passion scorches him from head to toe. At first he resists, but later he sinks into it, anxious and at a loss.

*

Cen Jianwei transmigrates into a book.

His only mission is to be the male lead's golden finger, helping his career along so the female lead can fall in love with him naturally.

But the male lead is greedy, stupid, and conceited, always blaming the world for his problems.

The female lead is flirtatious and fickle, with admirers everywhere.

Everything is a mess.

Until one day, while out and about, she watches the male lead innocently walk toward the man he calls his uncle.

A gentle breeze lifts the veil from the man's face.

His skin is soft as smoke, his features full and delicate, his body graceful beneath the dew and fragrant as rosy clouds.

She has never seen anyone more beautiful.

1. The female lead has no prior sexual experience, while the male lead does. The blurb focuses on the male lead, but there will probably be plenty of handsome men to make your heart flutter besides him (wags finger).

2. A real story of coercive seduction.

Theme: Love requires mutual understanding