My Imperial Harem Is All Slacking Off!

I am a miserable emperor.

My imperial power has been hollowed out, and the Regent controls the entire government. Later, I learned that the Regent is a reborn, all-conquering male lead, and he has left me the throne only because he wants to spend his life with his beloved wife, just the two of them.

My empress is obsessed with farming and never pays me any attention. The entire imperial garden has become her vegetable patch, and she always seems to have an endless supply of wealth. Later, I learned that she has something called a "spatial dimension," where precious medicinal herbs grow at incredible speed.

My noble consort is highly skilled in martial arts and has always looked down on me for being too weak to kill a chicken. Later, I learned that in her previous life, she was the leader of the martial arts world, and the soup of oblivion she drank when she reincarnated had expired.

My concubine always manages to avoid me. In the ten years since she entered the palace, I have never even seen her. Later, I learned that she is an unlucky cannon-fodder woman who transmigrated into a book and mistook me for the male lead. She will do anything to stay away from me.

My other concubines...

But the truth is, none of them know that I am actually...

A cultivator.

After ascending, I had nothing to do, so I came to play at being emperor.

Later, when people spoke of this country, they said

Not only was the emperor incredible, but every one of the women in his harem was a big shot!

And so, I made history: no country dared to pick a fight with ours.

Note:

1. No CP. Although the male lead has concubines, he has no romantic feelings for them and no improper relationships with them.

2. The main text is written in third person.

3. Everyone is powerful. It is not just the male lead: the concubines and the Regent are all big shots.

[Note: This is the third installment of My Harem Are All Neglecting Their Duties, but you can read it without having read the first two.]

I recommend my next-door neighbor's no-CP, silly male-lead novel, Seeking Death with All My Heart, I End Up Becoming a God.

Blurb:

After transmigrating into a book, Mu Yun became a minor cannon-fodder character in an old-school cultivation angst novel, a low-ranking disciple in a sect.

His mission: die.

He can't kill himself. He has to die at any plot point from the original story, or be killed by anyone in it, to complete his mission.

Fortunately, Mu Yun has the worst cultivation, the lowest status, and is famous throughout the sect as a good-for-nothing. That sounds like it should make dying easy.

From then on, Mu Yun started coming up with all kinds of ways to get himself killed.

In the original story, the female lead is tormented by the male lead and punished by being made to kneel in the freezing snow until she vomits blood.

Mu Yun thinks, That's perfect. My cultivation is so weak that if I kneel there, I won't even need to vomit blood. I'll just die!

So Mu Yun runs to where the female lead is kneeling and pulls her up. "Stop kneeling. I'll take your place!"

Female lead: ?

Later, the female lead doesn't vomit blood, but Mu Yun doesn't die either.

For some reason, Mu Yun doesn't think the snow is very cold. He suspects it's fake, inferior-quality snow.

In the original story, the second male lead is betrayed by everyone and thrown into a dangerous secret realm, where he barely survives. The treasures inside are also stolen from him.

Mu Yun hears this and thinks, Even better! If this secret realm can nearly kill a Golden Core cultivator like the second male lead, then surely an Qi Refining cultivator like me will die as soon as I go in!

So before the second male lead can be pushed in, Mu Yun dashes ahead of him. "Don't push him. Push me!"

Second male lead: ?

Later, the second male lead isn't injured, but neither is Mu Yun.

For some reason, the demonic beasts in the secret realm break their teeth when they bite him and snap their claws when they scratch him. Mu Yun suddenly understands: this is a scam, just like false advertising!

In the end, Mu Yun makes it all the way to the deepest part of the secret realm and gets the treasures there shoved into his hands. Finding them much too heavy, he casually gives them to the second male lead.

Second male lead: !

Every day, Mu Yun works hard to find a way to die.

And yet, even now, when a great figure called the "Grand Ancestor," respected by the powerful in both the immortal and demonic realms, has appeared, Mu Yun still hasn't managed to die.

Because Mu Yun is so focused on trying to get himself killed, he has no idea that those great figures are actually the little wretches from the original story.

And that "Grand Ancestor" is actually him.

Mu Yun stayed in his previous world for so long that he has forgotten he is someone who cultivated all the way to ascension. In this world, it would be an understatement to call his cultivation impressive: he is invulnerable and unrivaled under heaven.

P.S. Mu Yun never studies anything related to cultivation, because he firmly believes every profession has its own specialty. His specialty is dying, so he doesn't need to study things outside his field. As a result, he has never realized that his cultivation is ridiculously powerful.

P.P.S. The male lead's thought process is not normal.

Theme: Adversity can never defeat someone with a strong heart. Learn to face everything with a positive attitude.