Late Qing / Eunuchs / AIDS / Serum / Poison testing / Father-son bond / Love of country and family / Comeback / Tragic heroism / Historical adaptation
My name is Li An. I’m sixteen, and I have AIDS.
My father is Eunuch Li, the lowliest eunuch in the Forbidden City.
In an era when eunuchs are despised and AIDS is a death sentence, we are “monsters” everyone wants to beat down.
Then one day, I discover a secret: my blood can kill every virus.
My father’s “imperfect body” is immune to every poison.
When Japanese pirates use plague to massacre a city, I save a hundred thousand people with my serum.
When the foreign powers use opium to poison the Chinese people, my father tests every poison on himself and develops an antidote.
When everyone is on their knees fawning over foreigners, we, a pair of “monster” father and son, use our lowly bodies to hold up China’s last line of defense.
So what if I’m a eunuch? So what if I have AIDS?
The world cast us aside, yet we became its saviors.
May this prosperous age be as you wished.
But remember, we “monsters” paid for it with our lives.
