The gong is gorgeous and irresistible, and the shou is split into fragments. 1v1.
The preview concepts may not all make it into the finished story. The writing order will depend on how inspired I feel when I start each book.
The scummy behavior is just part of the character setup, not genuine scumminess. Everyone falls for the gong, and the gong will either be in a 1v1 relationship or stay single.
He is drugged and spends a night with a CEO. Afterward, the CEO becomes pregnant. Once the CEO gives birth, he goes after the gong.
He becomes an assassin girl raised by the Imperial Preceptor, but is only cross-dressing as a girl. She is utterly loyal to the Imperial Preceptor, who suppresses his love for the gong for the sake of his grand ambitions. Later, he discovers that the gong is together with the emperor.
He marries into a marquis's household as the principal wife and takes charge of the estate. His husband has a male cousin living elsewhere, and they even have a child together. His husband plans to divorce him, bring the cousin back, make him the principal wife, and let their illegitimate child inherit the family fortune. Luckily, the husband's cousin's son is actually his own child. Otherwise, this would be a real mess.
The Crown Prince of the Immortal Realm marries a mortal man. Seven years later, he's forced to marry a goddess from the Heavenly Realm. The moment they unlock their matching heart-lock, the goddess (a man) drops the act, snatches the mortal, and runs.
The emperor arranges for him to marry a brutal, cold-blooded God of War prince. The prince glares darkly at him: “You're the one who used me to cure your spring poison back then?” The male lead says he doesn't remember. And he really doesn't.
He transmigrates into the pampered wife of a wealthy family's comatose husband. The comatose man hears his male wife calling out to her beloved husband day and night, and eventually wakes up. Only then does he discover that his wife has been calling for someone else.
He becomes the emperor's favorite concubine, then discovers he's merely a stand-in for the sickly empress, and that the noble consort sees him as a thorn in her side and plots against him. To survive, he has no choice but to pursue the empress.
After the Immortal Venerable kills him to prove his Dao, he comes back to life, this time inside a divine tree in the God Realm. It turns out everything was just a dream conjured by the tree's fruit. The Divine Lord from the ninth heaven clutches the tree trunk, his tears bloody as he asks, “What's so good about the mortal realm that you keep going back? Why won't you stay by my side?”
A petite nightclub singer with a flat chest accidentally saves an injured CEO. The CEO conceals his identity and sticks close to her, trying to win her over. He thinks he has her right where he wants her, but later discovers that the four incredibly handsome men around her are all powerful big shots secretly lying low.
Theme: Be independent and strong. Learn to love yourself before loving someone else