The Red Brush’s Curse: The Eunuch’s Moon in His Palm

In the Jing Dynasty, young martial artist Shen Jinghong had been bound since childhood by a mysterious prophecy: she would fall in love with a fickle man and ultimately die for love. Refusing to believe in fate, she took up her sword as a shield and cut down faithless men across the land, living a fierce and lonely life. At sixteen, she was ambushed in Jiangnan and saved at the cost of his own life by Xiao Yunxi, a noble young master dressed in white as brilliant as snow. Yet when she confessed her feelings, he turned her down: “I’m afraid I cannot accept your devotion, miss.” Ten years later, they met again. Xiao Yunxi had become Lu Zhiyan, Minister of Personnel with power over the court. He circled her trembling chin with his vermilion brush. “How about letting me pursue you this time?” Shen Jinghong struggled between resistance and wavering, only to discover that a shocking secret lay behind the “cold-heartedness” of the past: Lu Zhiyan had deliberately pushed her away to protect her from the prophecy’s curse. As the fateful prophecy intertwined with a conspiracy in the present, Shen Jinghong finally understood that true destiny was never determined by heaven. It was in her own hands. She would not only cut down faithless men across the land, but also seize the Seal-Bearing Lord who had hidden a lifetime of tenderness, and embark on an equal, wholehearted romance amid the whirlpool of power.