The Great Eunuch of the Ming Dynasty

During the Chenghua era of Emperor Xianzong of the Ming Dynasty, young Chen Mo has just been castrated and sent to the palace. Forced by his family's poverty to become a huozhe, he unexpectedly discovers he has a gift for remembering every detail in documents after seeing them once. He fights his way up from the heaps of sour leftovers in the Laundry Bureau, escapes a death sentence by spotting discrepancies in account books, cracks a tribute-goods theft by using a parrot's mimicry, exposes salt-tax fraud by tracing variations in ink, and ultimately turns the tide during a scandal over imperial tomb blueprints. This isn't a story about a eunuch fighting for power. It's the survival record of a nobody who relies on the clumsy method of rote memorization to go from being trampled by everyone to protecting those around him, amid the blades and bloodshed of the Ming palace. After all, in the Forbidden City, what you can rely on is never luck, but the ledgers others can't be bothered to read, the details no one remembers, and the responsibilities no one dares to shoulder...