With the Pure

“If love is our original sin, then we are each other’s place of punishment, and each other’s promised shore.”

She enters the palace to clear her father’s name, only to fall in love with the enemy who destroyed her family.

He is the “treacherous eunuch” who holds power over the court, yet willingly cleanses his name for her and paves her way with his death.

The imperial palace is a prison. They test each other and keep each other warm, as the purest love takes root amid schemes and bloodshed.

She knows the shackles he has borne all his life; he understands the pride in her bones.

He is willing to kill the emperor and his own kin for her, and overturn the court.

She is willing to leap from a tower for him and wash away his dishonor in blood.

“I ask not that we live together, only that we be cleansed together.”

Later, he carried her body through the snow that blanketed the world, heading for the Jiangnan she had dreamed of all her life.

Later, he kept watch over a blank statue of a woman until his life ran out.

The careful strokes of history recorded not a word of them.

The land itself became their gravestone, and even without words, it bore witness.

Powerful eunuch of the Eastern Depot × revenge-seeking female official. Mutual salvation, bound together as they journey toward hell. We fall in love in the abyss and prove our innocence to each other with our deaths.

Power couple | Mutual salvation | Ultimate tragic romance | Court intrigue and tortured love | Eunuch male lead | Female official heroine

√ He is the treacherous eunuch reviled by all, and the madman who would slay a god for her.

√ She is a clear-eyed avenger, and the moth who would burn herself for him.

√ We are each other’s abyss, and each other’s promised shore.