The Marquis’s Cherished Beauty: The Thousand-Year-Old Lady Has Been Unmasked Again

Everyone knows Pei Xingzhao, the powerful eunuch who rules the court, rescued the orphan Shen Qingci from a mansion drenched in blood.

He raised her, doted on her, and spoiled her as if she were the most precious thing in the world.

Until the day she came of age, when the Crown Prince proposed to her in front of everyone.

Her usually gentle “foster father” crushed his wineglass. In private, he pinned her before a mirror, his breath scorching. “Cici, what do you call me?”

She trembled. “Fa...”

“Say it again,” he said, his eyes dark as night. “Keep going until you get it right.”

Later, her true identity was revealed: she was a remnant of the previous dynasty, and everyone wanted her dead.

But he led his cavalry through the palace gates and draped an imperial robe over her shoulders. “This world isn’t worthy of you. But if you want it, your foster father will take it for you to play with.”

After that, assassins from the martial world, political struggles at court, and mysteries surrounding her origins came one after another.

Again and again, she “dropped her disguise”: leader of a martial clan, immune to every poison, the emperor’s lost pearl...

When all six identities were finally revealed, she stood atop the nine-tiered terrace and looked down at the world with a smile. “Who else wants to tell me to accept my fate?”

He was always behind her, sword in hand, ready to become a demon for her sake.

Until she turned, hooked a finger into his collar, and gave him a lingering look. “Foster father, I want this world. And I want you, too.”

He lowered his head and kissed the only thing he had ever wanted. “You’ve had me all along.”