I, the Foolish Emperor of a Fallen Kingdom???

Yan Taizong Xiao Heng spent his life fighting wars in the south and north, expanding his realm. During his reign, Great Yan grew rich and powerful, and its territory reached its greatest extent. Yet on his way back to the capital after personally leading a campaign, Taizong Xiao Heng suffered a relapse of an old illness and passed away. When he opened his eyes again, someone beside him cried out in terror, “Your Majesty, the rebels have entered the imperial city. Great Yan is doomed!” Xiao Heng: “...” He had transmigrated into the body of a Yan emperor from a century later. With the rebels about to storm the bedchamber, Xiao Heng stared into a bronze mirror at his own outfit: a silk dress, gold hairpins, and dangling ornaments. He fell into deep thought. This foolish emperor had not only ruined Great Yan through incompetence, but also had an unmentionable, deeply improper hobby: Wearing women's clothes. The Yan house had fallen into decline, and warlords carved up the realm. Duan Yunfeng, heir to the Prince of Zhenbei, entered the capital alongside a rebel king. He failed to find the emperor in the palace and saw only a fallen princess in resplendent finery. One glimpse by the Nine-Bend Pool was all it took for Duan Yunfeng to fall in love at first sight, convinced he had met the love of his life. The rebel king was brutal and unjust, and Duan Yunfeng did not consider him a worthy ruler. So he simply married the princess, set up his own domain, and promised to win her an empire as her bride price one day. The princess was perfect in every way, except that she was tall and aloof, and never spoke. Duan Yunfeng had always thought the princess was mute. Then one day, after he reached the place where the remnants of the Yan army were camped, his men told him the princess had run off with the “resurrected” emperor of Great Yan. Furious, Duan Yunfeng prepared to confront the emperor and demand an explanation. Beneath the twelve-strand crown, the emperor's handsome, coolly aloof face looked remarkably familiar. “Didn't you say you were going to win me an empire?” Duan Yunfeng remembered all those moonlit nights, when he had poured out one sweet vow after another into the other's ear. His vision went black, then black again. Wait, how the hell was this princess a man? To reclaim his empire, Xiao Heng had no choice but to endure the humiliation for a while, bide his time, and disguise himself as a woman. At first, he was thoroughly annoyed by this shameless man who called himself her “husband.” Xiao Heng thought that once he reclaimed his throne, he would make him a stable hand, sweeping out the stables. Later, he decided Duan Yunfeng looked decent enough, and might just about qualify as a saber-bearing imperial bodyguard... Well, he wasn't bad at war either. He could just about be made a general. After years of campaigning, Xiao Heng finally reclaimed the lands of Great Yan. That night, Xiao Heng shared the dragon bed with the great general he had personally appointed. [Emperor gong X General shou] Here's a plug for my upcoming historical BL novel: After Entering the Foolish Emperor Simulator Pei Yan played an emperor simulator game. Since it was a game, naturally, playing a tyrant was the most fun. He neglected court affairs and devoted himself to tormenting his ministers. One day, he made a sixty-year-old Grand Tutor dance in women's clothes. The next, he ordered a minister to bark like a dog for his amusement. Then he forcibly married the great general and ordered him into the harem to bear him a child. Before long, the great general launched a rebellion, bringing the game to its bad ending. Having had his fill of being emperor, Pei Yan went to sleep feeling pleased with himself. Then he closed his eyes and opened them to find himself lying on an unfamiliar bed. A tall man knelt beside it, gazing at him with a gloomy look, as if he wanted to eat him alive. “Your Majesty, I am Xie Jingfeng. I have come by imperial decree to attend you tonight.” Pei Yan: “...” Right, right, right. Not only had he transmigrated into the game he'd been playing, he had become the tyrant who was about to be executed by his own men for rebelling! To stop Xie Jingfeng from rebelling, Pei Yan decided to play a foolish emperor hopelessly in love with him, treating the general as his favorite consort. As a result, the ministers saw that the day after Xie Jingfeng was summoned to the emperor's bed, the suspicious emperor returned his military authority to him. Pei Yan: “The great general is unwaveringly loyal to me. How could he ever harbor treasonous intentions?” Every time the great general attended him, the emperor became more indulgent toward him. Xie Jingfeng even openly talked back to the emperor in court, and still faced no consequences. Pei Yan: “Honest words may be hard to hear! The great general is a man of true character. Guards, reward him!” The ministers suddenly understood: so long as they became the foolish emperor's favorite consort and pleased and indulged him, he would grant them anything. If the great general could do it, why couldn't they? And so, the Minister of Works devoted himself to studying the art of seduction in hopes of securing funds. A Vice Minister of the Secretariat played a kitten to advance his career, meowing every day. The sixty-year-old Grand Tutor put on the latest women's fashion and requested an audience to dance for the emperor, hoping to get him to heed their advice. Pei Yan: “...” These ministers have gone insane!!! Pei Yan decided to retreat to the harem until the storm passed. Unexpectedly, as soon as he returned, he ran into the great general's gloomy stare. “Didn't Your Majesty say I was the only one in your heart, that you wanted to be with me for the rest of our lives, and that you'd grant me anything I asked for?” Pei Yan was exasperated. “O-of course. What would you like, my dear minister?” Xie Jingfeng: “When will Your Majesty have a child with me?” Pei Yan: “...” So you're the most deranged one of all! Theme: Where there's a will, there's a way