The Scheming Empress and Her Bewitching Emperor

This is a one-on-one romance about transmigration and farming, sweet and angst-free, with a woman disguised as a man and plenty of lighthearted humor!

What sparks and passion will fly when a cold, calculating woman meets a gorgeous, wicked man?

When she dresses as a man and shares a room with him, is it a forbidden romance between two men or a tormenting secret crush?

When the dignified emperor looks at her standing below in her court robes as chancellor, is he resentful that they didn't have enough fun last night, or frustrated by his burning desire?

Mu Qing was going about her ordinary workday when she transmigrated in the most bizarre way. She took it in stride!

She opened her eyes to find herself in ragged clothes, in a house with nothing. She faced it all calmly!

When her younger brother died, she put on men's clothes without complaint!

To bring honor to her family, she went to school, took the civil service exams, and entered court. She handled it all with effortless flair!

But seriously, why did she have to run into this outrageous Ninth Lord?

In her eyes, the most handsome and favored Ninth Prince of the Tianqi Kingdom had a foul temper and endless bad habits! He was useless and had a feminine face! Arrogant and domineering, he was also moody and unpredictable! In short, he was impossible to deal with!

She wanted no part of him, okay?

So why did some ridiculous twist of fate make them share a room?

Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai?

Oh, please! She'd have to be crazy to sing “Butterflies Flying in Pairs” to this brat, barely in his teens and not even fully grown!

As it turned out, she really did go crazy!

And in the eyes of the proud Ninth Lord, the most unique and peerless man in the Tianqi Kingdom, Mu Qing was a cold, calculating troublemaker with a wicked tongue and a cruel heart!

She nearly turned him into a man who loved men, tormenting himself over it for ages, and almost making him dress as a woman! She made him give up his carefree ways and ascend the throne, only to be left miserably glaring at her in her chancellor's robes, torn between love and hate!

She made him jealous every single day, yet he still had to help her keep all her admirers around, because, as he said, they were her childhood friends, brothers in life and death, and lifelong companions! (Ahem, he said this through gritted teeth!)

A fun little scene:

One day, in the imperial study, he stared at her in her bright yellow dragon robe and, for the thousand and first time, asked without giving up hope, “Mu Qing, when are you going to take off those court robes?”

Without looking up from the memorials she was reviewing, she replied with weary resignation to his never-ending question, “Ninth Lord, isn't there a night when you don't take them off yourself?” When he got impatient, he even tore them off!

His heart stirred as he recalled her warm, soft body in his arms and her enchanting beauty. But a moment later, he snapped in frustration, “Don't use your beauty to distract me! I mean during the day! The daytime!”

Beauty? She hadn't even given him a glance, okay? “The daytime won't do! Being chancellor and being empress aren't mutually exclusive!”

“They are! Completely! As empress, no one would dare covet you. As chancellor, every official at court is after you!”

“Ninth Lord, do your ministers know how jealous you are?”

“Damn it, Mu Qing! I've told you, I'm not jealous! I'm not jealous!”

Pfft... The whole world burst out laughing!

One day, the Ninth Lord was alone in the imperial study, dejected and longing for Mu Qing to return, when a guard rushed in with urgent news. “Your Majesty, the students at the academy admire the chancellor's knowledge and appearance. They've blocked her at the entrance, so she can't return to the palace yet! And... there are lots of young ladies too!”

His peerlessly handsome face darkened like a storm was about to break. They had cornered her again? Did they think he was dead? “Issue my decree: From today on, any man who blocks the chancellor will be sent into the palace as a eunuch. Any woman... will have her head shaved and be sent to a nunnery!”