After the Moonlight of His Life Entered the Palace, the Eunuch Chief Stole Moments of Pleasure Every Night

“I want you to love me, madly.”

“Both virgins, one-on-one happy ending + a villain’s sincere love, a mad dog brought to heel + an intense push and pull + a true eunuch”

A beautiful, clever young empress × a sinister, unhinged eunuch of the highest rank

In the eyes of the world, Cui Ji, Director of the Directorate of Ceremonial, blocks the emperor’s access to the truth above and deceives the court below. He is nothing less than a wicked eunuch.

But in Xie Ning’s eyes, he is the gentle older brother who kept her company when she was young.

When they meet again after years apart in the imperial palace, her “brother” coldly ignores her and refuses to acknowledge her.

Xie Ning is furious.

Late one night, Cui Ji is urgently summoned to the empress’s chambers. He sees the young empress curled up on her bed in a thin nightgown, her voice sweet as a songbird’s:

“Director, it’s so dark in the palace. I’m scared…”

Cui Ji replies without expression, “Your Majesty can have someone light the lamps.”

Xie Ning says, “Director, it’s so cold in the palace…”

Cui Ji replies, “Your Majesty can have someone add more charcoal.”

The young empress looks up at him, her eyes faintly red and her gaze full of tenderness.

“Brother…”

After a long silence, Cui Ji laughs softly. “Your Majesty, don’t regret this.”

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Cui Ji has two great regrets in his life.

The first is that he never asked her name back then. The second… is that he drafted the decree naming her empress.

By a cruel twist of fate, he sent the moon of his youth into the mire with his own hands. Loathing and despising himself, he can only protect her from the shadows. That way, they can remain strangers, and she will be safe.

But the moon keeps crashing into him.

At last, Cui Ji can take no more. “What is it that Your Majesty truly wants?”

Xie Ning smiles. “Only you, Brother.”

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Even if he must bear the world’s condemnation and defy all that is right, he will have her.

In this life and every life to come, until death and beyond.