Fantasy
Straight Male Chauvinism Enters Romance Novels
Noble Consort Qin was a peerless beauty, alluring enough to make the emperor cast aside his first wife and depose his legitimate son.
With tender eyes, Noble Consort Qin murmured, “His Majesty and I were joined as husband and wife in our youth. We are as devoted as a pair of mandarin ducks…”
Emperor Gaozu, inveterate male chauvinist: “Lady Qin is a mere concubine. How could she possibly have been joined to Us in our youth?”
“Throw this insolent wretch into the cold palace at once-and bring Us five hundred jin of memorials!”
◆ Male-chauvinist emperors with a single-minded devotion to a rich nation and a powerful army ◆
◆ We have no need of love. We want GDP! ◆
Notes:
1. This is a male-lead story in a fictional setting, and an unconventional quick-transmigration novel told through feudal monarchs who enter romance stories.
2. The emperors are written as typical rulers of feudal eras. They care only about raising GDP and have no time for romance. And yes, they truly are male chauvinists. Emphasis very much intended.
3. This is a wish-fulfillment story hostile to the pampered-concubine trope, with face-slapping and scum getting what they deserve. The emperors’ values do not represent the author’s. Please do not derail the discussion.
4. The direction and pace of the plot are entirely the author’s decision, and the author reserves the final right of interpretation.
Ginseng Fruit
Nan Tao, an enslaved maid in a wealthy household, discovers that the baby-shaped ginseng fruit her mistress orders buried is alive.
As the fruit reveals the truth behind the household’s miracle heir, Nan Tao uncovers a cycle of trafficking, forced pregnancy, and women transformed into trees harvested for profit.
With a holy monk and his three disciples, she must uproot the dead tree that holds her soul—even though destroying it will erase her forever.
A dark feminist reimagining of a mythic delicacy, Ginseng Fruit turns supernatural horror into a haunting story of inherited violence, motherhood, and liberation.
Our Entire Sect Switched to the Carefree Way
When the hundredth prodigy of Sword One Sect abandons the Way of Heartlessness for love, its exasperated master orders the entire sect to embrace the Carefree Way instead.
Fourth disciple Ying Ruge expects a delightfully chaotic new life filled with matchmaking schemes, sect rivalries, and the silent devotion of her second senior brother, Meng Yu.
But when Demon-Suppressing Mountain breaks open, their carefree creed is tested by a battle that forces every disciple to decide what freedom, duty, and love are worth.
I Sell Wontons on Immortal Mountain
After wandering the mortal world for more than six hundred years, I hear that a once-in-a-century sword prodigy has appeared.
The young man has also found a dragon that sounds remarkably like the one I lost long ago.
Cultivators from across the realm flock to the mountain, some to seek the dragon and the Dao, others to kill and seize treasure.
I am different.
After a long, dusty journey to the Sword Sect, all I want is to set up a little stall at the foot of the mountain and sell wontons.
When He Tore Off His Prayer Beads
I had profaned the divine after all.
The aloof, ascetic monk from the altar now stood inside my red-draped bedchamber, tearing off his prayer beads as he clasped my ankle, his Adam’s apple shifting.
“Little Highness, this humble monk has broken his vows.”
The Aloof Sword Venerable Became My Feast
I was Sword Venerable Jiang Tingxue’s most devoted anti-fan.
I spent nearly a century slandering him from the shadows, yet he never once noticed me.
Then his cultivation was destroyed overnight, and his enemies threw him into a brothel to be humiliated.
I went there especially to laugh at him.
But when I saw the sickly beauty in a blood-soaked robe, blind eyes veiled in white, the words that came out of my mouth were not the ones I had planned.
“Hey, Jiang Tingxue, want to come with me?”
“…I suppose I could treat you a little better.”
And so, in the hundredth year of my futile obsession with Jiang Tingxue, he became the beautiful prize I kept all to myself.
Transmigrated as the Female Villain, I Lock Up the Male Lead First
Does transmigrating into a vicious female supporting character mean you have to survive by clinging to the male lead?
Faced with the battered, humiliated male lead, Yu Tai smiles and opens with a live demonstration: sleeping with him.
Worried about a romantic clash with the original heroine?
Yu Tai glances at a certain demon beast she raised like her own daughter and sighs.
Ever heard of a heroine who insists on taking human form as a man?
And when Yu Tai’s identity as a demonic cultivator is exposed, plunging her into an unprecedented crisis?
The male lead she thought was weak merely flicks a finger, destroying half the cultivation world in a single blow.
???
Yu Tai: Is there something wrong with this novel I transmigrated into?
When Gods Fall in Love, the Three Realms Suffer
When immortals fall in love, they threaten to destroy all living beings over the slightest matter of the heart.
When gods surrender to passion, none of the Three Realms knows peace.
The Celestial Realm is long overdue for a reckoning.
The River God’s Secret
I have been able to breathe underwater since I was little, and I often hide at the bottom of the river to play with the fish and shrimp.
When I am seven, the county magistrate begins sacrificing young girls to the River God in exchange for favorable weather.
The family of each chosen girl receives five taels of silver and two sacks of rice.
Every time, I rescue the girl and secretly hide her in the mountains beside the river.
When I am sixteen, my parents bind my hands and feet while I sleep.
“Yuniang, your brother is old enough to take a wife.”
“This year, it is your turn to be sacrificed to the River God!”
The Palace Maid Dies of Embarrassment Every Day
*Book Transmigration · Inner Voice · System · Groveling Exes · Hidden Identities*
Shengsheng Zhou was a cannon-fodder bug in the story. She had thought that once Zhiyao kept the plot on track, she would be rewarded with a flawless reincarnation.
Unfortunately, each of these three men was stranger than the last.
When she had been a palace maid, they had treated her like a plaything.
She had assumed that once she donned a new identity, she could pay them back for every humiliation she had suffered.
Their behavior, however, left her utterly baffled.
The yandere villain told her, “I will offer the head of my own emperor as the bride price for the princess’s hand.”
The tyrant male lead, eyes red, bared his chest to her. “I owe you one life. Take mine.”
The scheming second male lead pinned her against a wall. “Kiss me once, and my life is yours.”
Shengsheng Zhou: “…Would any of you like a sour plum to calm down?”