If You Have Something to Say, Kneel Down and Say It (Female-Dominated World)

Male Lead's Perspective:

Liu Yaoyao fell from being a refined young gentleman of noble birth into the world of courtesans. With nothing but his looks to rely on, he had no choice but to beg Lord Jiang, a woman whose word could decide whether someone lived or died.

Jiang Yi treated him so well, lavishing him with affection. No matter what mistake he made, all he had to do was kneel and beg, and she would always soften and make up with him as if nothing had happened.

He thought he would be happy and content for the rest of his life.

Until he was led astray by someone and nearly ruined one of her important plans. Jiang Yi, who had always been gentle and cherished him like a precious jewel, turned icy-eyed. In front of everyone, she slapped him hard and told him to get out.

At the time, he naively thought that if he knelt and begged sincerely as he always had, even the darkest clouds would eventually clear.

But he knelt outside her study until his legs gave out, and still couldn't make her change her mind.

Half a year later, he finally got the chance to see her again. He thought Jiang Yi had agreed to meet because her anger had passed and she was finally willing to forgive him.

In the study, he knelt before Jiang Yi and cautiously told her that he truly knew he'd been wrong. But the woman in the chair toyed with his neck in one hand and smiled. "Your skin is smooth as satin. It's been so long since I touched you, I've started to miss it."

Female Lead's Perspective:

In her previous life, Jiang Yi was a corporate wage slave. After she transmigrated to a matriarchal world, she climbed her way up through sheer hard work to become a close confidante of the emperor and a rising star at court.

One day, after returning to her residence from court, she found a timid young man kneeling at the foot of her bed, clutching her skirt and pleading through tearful eyes, "Lord Jiang, please save my father. I... I'll do anything."

In the end, she couldn't bring herself to be cruel. She pulled him out of trouble and let him serve as a cleaning attendant, at least giving him a way to survive.

But although the young man had the face of a pure, innocent flower, he had no intention of settling for life as a mere attendant. He was remarkably bold when it came to seducing her.

She admitted she was wrong. What could be better than a sunshine boy with this kind of contrast?

A restrained female power broker VS a humble, ingratiating male lead

Reader's Guide: Both leads are virgins; male pregnancy; happy ending; one-on-one romance.

Note: This isn't pure fluff, but a bittersweet romance. The male lead will suffer midway through, but this author is an extreme woman-lover and won't put the female lead through hardship. Happy ending.

Climbing the Ladder (Matriarchal World) is now being serialized. Babies, feel free to check it out if you're interested.

Climbing the Ladder (Matriarchal World) Blurb:

Male Lead's Perspective:

Xi Zhaozhao was born into poverty. At six, his mother sold him to the palace for a string of coins, and he became the lowest-ranking servant in the laundry room. There was always more work to do and never enough to eat. He curled up and survived for fifteen years, looking forward to leaving the palace and marrying into a good family.

But his increasingly beautiful face ultimately changed the course of his life.

He ran into the Sixth Princess, who had secretly entered the palace in disguise. Young and inexperienced, he couldn't resist her stunning beauty. A few sweet words made up for a lifetime without love, and he flew toward that dazzling flame like a moth.

Even at the very moment she was conquering him, he foolishly asked, "Could you give me a title? Even if I can't be your primary consort."

Later, he recognized the pomegranate-red robe she wore beneath her clothes. It was fabric he had carefully washed countless times.

So she was the Sixth Princess, who already had a whole crowd of secondary consorts. He was nothing but a bit of flavor in her dull, monotonous life.

Later, she took a primary consort, added secondary consorts, and ascended the throne. The number of people around her kept growing, yet she never gave him a proper title.

She made him a palace servant attending to brushes and ink in the Imperial Study. The total number of nights all the consorts in the harem spent in her chambers didn't come close to the number of times they fooled around in the Imperial Study.

He didn't dare fall in love with someone he could never reach. All he could do was lock his heart away and watch coldly as the consorts in her harem fought for her favor.

Later, when he had grown old and his beauty had faded, he rose to the position of empress consort at the age of forty, second only to the emperor and above all others.

Looking back on his life, the best years of his youth were burdened with the ridicule of climbing the ladder, while the second half of his life made him the consort who ruled the realm alongside the emperor.

An emperor's affections are truly impossible to fathom.

In short: A scummy woman reaches middle age, finds the imperial throne cold and lonely, and suddenly realizes that the most sincere person by her side is Xi Zhaozhao, whom she has always looked down on. She mends her ways and helps him ascend to the position of empress consort.

Female lead isn't a virgin; male lead is. Palace intrigue. The female lead really does have a harem. One-on-one ending.

Character setup: Humble palace servant male lead VS scummy empress female lead. The female lead was born and raised in the imperial family of a matriarchal world, and she really is a scumbag early on.

Theme: If you want something, you have to fight for it.