Empress as My Main Wife from the Start

Empress as My Main Wife from the Start Plot:

Lin Chuan, a modern corporate slave, transmigrates to the fictional Great Chu Dynasty after an all-nighter. He’s barely awake when he’s dragged to the Golden Hall—only to have Empress Chu Zhaoyi announce publicly that she’s marrying him as her “main wife”. It turns out he was a little beggar who saved her in a past life, and now the empress wants to repay the favor with “the most honorable status”. Lin Chuan panics: he’s dodging the empress’s “over-the-top doting” (like moving the imperial kitchen to make him sugar paintings) while fending off assassins sent by the prime minister—since the empress’s unprecedented marriage has turned the court upside down. But when he sees the empress pricking her finger learning to sew, and uncovers the usurpation plot behind her, is this “peak-start” marriage a repayment or a mutual redemption?