[A powerful eunuch who rules the realm and turns from wolf to lapdog for love ✕ a second young miss who lusts after handsome men and invites a wolf into her home]
‖ Not serious political scheming, not a female-power fantasy
Song Changhuan, the daughter of the prime minister, has been kept hidden in the inner residence since childhood. Her family has always disliked her for no clear reason, though the occasional glimmer of warmth makes it hard for her to let go of her family ties.
On the day fate intervenes, she finds a strange young man who has climbed over the garden wall. Knowing neither his name nor his origins, she brings him to the prime minister’s study simply because he is handsome.
Her wholehearted trust and kindness are like a bright moon, lighting up his long, cold years and becoming the one obsession of the powerful eunuch’s life.
But he has countless lives in his hands, and his red robes are soaked in blood. Afraid that the woman he loves will hate and fear him, he dares not approach her, pure of heart as she is. This humble hesitation costs him the woman he loves.
Reborn into another life, Song Changhuan does everything she can to evade the disaster that will destroy her family. She begs the powerful Regent and Eunuch who holds the realm in his grasp to spare her, unaware that he has always offered her his whole heart.
He shelters her beneath his wings, shields her from political attacks and malicious gossip, and quietly clears every obstacle from her path, wishing only for her to remain true to herself and live in peace. But he does not understand love. His clumsy, forceful attempts to get close make the wary Song Changhuan misunderstand him again and again, and push him away time after time.
Only after their misunderstandings are resolved and his sincerity comes to light does Song Changhuan realize that the cold-faced eunuch’s tenderness and devotion, though never spoken aloud, have long been etched into his very bones.
Amid the treacherous tides of court, they stand side by side: one schemes for the realm, the other guards the righteous path. Together they claim a vast kingdom and pledge themselves to a profound love that spans life and death, with only each other at its heart.
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