Locked in the Deep Courtyard

[Steadfast palace maid x sinister fake eunuch]

The imperial palace is a prison, and everyone inside is a bird in a cage.

As a palace maid, Tang Denghui is cautious at every turn and leaves nothing to chance. She only hopes to serve out her years, leave the palace, return to her hometown, and live freely.

She has no desire to curry favor with anyone. All she wants is a quiet, peaceful life.

But somehow, she catches Wei Changyu’s eye.

He is the chief eunuch who holds power over the entire inner palace, a smiling snake who is ruthless and cruel, with everything under his thumb. No one in the palace dares not fear him.

Everyone says he is a man without roots, cold-blooded and heartless. No one knows that beneath the guise of a false eunuch lies a passion as obsessive as it is searing.

Love at first sight deepens with time. He pours every ounce of tenderness and ruthlessness into her.

She avoids him, and he pursues her. She retreats, and he advances.

She dares not accept this love, cannot accept it, and has no way to return such a scandalous, earth-buried affection.

But Wei Changyu has never cared about rules and propriety, much less what the world thinks.

He is a smiling tiger, a player of the game. In this vast imperial palace, he can protect her, and he can keep her captive.

“You can only be mine.”

Tang Denghui cannot escape him or hide from him. In the end, she is destined to fall with him into this unfathomable abyss, lost together in its depths.