You Chose the Eunuch. Now That I'm Emperor, Why Do You Regret It?

The male lead’s first-person perspective:

I was once the pride of heaven. Then, overnight, I was betrayed by my trusted aides and abandoned by my wife...

During the ten years when I was at my lowest, everyone avoided me. Only she, Lin Feixue, the great general who defended the nation, guarded the frontier for me and held on to the last of my hope.

Now I have reclaimed the throne, and the realm is in my hands.

The people who betrayed me kneel at my feet, crying that they were wrong.

My ministers urge me, “Your Majesty, for the good of the realm, you must put the greater picture first.”

I look at Feixue beside me as she drapes my armor over my shoulders, and smile.

“The realm? When they cast me aside like trash, she was the one who defended it for me. Now, both the realm and its ruler belong to her alone.”

The female lead’s first-person perspective:

I guarded the borders for the deposed crown prince for ten years and held back a hundred thousand enemy soldiers. Everyone in the capital laughed at me for being foolish enough to stake my entire clan’s lives on a dead man.

They didn’t know that, years ago in the palace’s golden hall, the young crown prince had told me, “If one day I can no longer protect you, then guard this realm for me.”

Ten years later, he returned, clad in black armor and drenched in blood. His first act was not to settle scores with his enemies, but to come to me and brush the dust from my armor...