The Substitute Daughter: The Eunuch's Road to Ruin

On a stormy night, he branded the word “Guilty” onto her left arm with his own hands. “The Shen family’s daughter deserves the mark of a criminal!” The Eastern Depot’s Commander, Xie Weiyan, drove his black-iron tongs through her flesh. She was the daughter of a disgraced official, and her legitimate elder sister’s substitute prisoner. To secure a place for her frail sister in Fengyang Pavilion, Shen Rongyu swallowed hot coals to ruin her voice and endured castration in her sister’s place. The imperial palace was full of deadly traps: A poisoned umbrella with twenty-four silk ribs pressed against her back, while she was framed for the arsenic case at the Laundry Bureau; But the most painful truth lay inside the Commander’s cage: He slapped her in public to prove his loyalty, yet secretly saved her from nine assassination attempts... “You are the enemy I hate to the depths of my soul, and the one I love down to my very bones.”