Marrying the Fake Eunuch, the Ninth Thousand Years

What the heck? What’s going on? I’d only just entered the palace and hadn’t even received a title when the emperor died. To show his filial piety, the new emperor ordered all the imperial concubines to be buried alive with him... To save my own skin, I knocked out a rather handsome young man in the imperial garden and slept with him. At the burial ceremony more than a month later, I claimed that the late emperor had secretly favored me when I first entered the palace, and that I was now pregnant. The new emperor flew into a rage and ordered me to drink poison, accusing me of being unchaste. But then the Living Yama, the Ninth Lord, seated beside the imperial throne, suddenly lit up and sprang to his feet, hoisting me over his shoulder and carrying me away... I have no idea why, but a few days later the emperor issued an edict betrothing me to him...