A Treacherous Minister with a Heart of Loyalty

This novel will be entering VIP status on the 18th, with paid chapters starting from Chapter 28. Upright and principled prince gong x powerful eunuch shou Yuan Qiyu couldn't stand people like Ye Hui, who smiled at everyone and never said a single sincere word. At first glance, Ye Hui seemed as elegant as a jade tree, but in truth he was nothing more than a lowly, neither-man-nor-woman eunuch. And yet this lowlife wielded power over the court, forcing even the dignified Second Prince to give way to him. What Yuan Qiyu understood even less was that Ye Hui drank only from the finest glazed jade cups, yet insisted on drinking coarse, bitter wild-herb tea. He wore cloud-patterned brocade woven with silver thread, yet carried an old sachet sewn from rough cloth. He liked holding a silk fan painted with cranes, yet treasured a mottled, battered black stone. In Yuan Qiyu's words, Ye Hui was a strange and despicable little man, destined to be at odds with an upright person like himself. But who could have guessed that this man's every frown and smile would eventually make him cry with longing before sleep and laugh with delight in his dreams? In short, Yuan Qiyu, a prince, wanted to kill Ye Hui, that treacherous little courtier, every single day. So how did he accidentally end up on a long road to winning his beloved back? I originally had no plans to put this novel behind a paywall. I once said that as long as the stats were good, I wouldn't do so before the story was finished. But the numbers have been truly dismal. I've thought about abandoning it several times, but I really want to finish the story, so in the end I decided to make it a paid novel. I hope this gives more people a chance to discover it, and I hope you'll understand.