After Marrying the Living King of Hell from the Eastern Depot

[Fake eunuch + sweet replacement-bride romance + unhinged powerful official + everyone wildly misreads the situation]

On her first night married to the Eastern Depot's Ninth Thousand Years, Jiang Li prepares to be carried off to the mass grave.

After all, everyone in the capital knows Pei Ji is moody and murderous, a mad eunuch whom even the emperor fears.

And she is nothing but a cast-off, forced to take her legitimate elder sister's place as the bride.

To stay alive, Jiang Li immediately activates her socially anxious survival strategy:

Don't compete, don't fight, don't resist.

Whatever the Ninth Thousand Years says is right.

But as she keeps up the act...

She casually says she's hungry, and the Eastern Depot lays out an entire feast overnight.

Someone makes a snide remark about her, and the next day their whole family is thrown in jail.

She's afraid of thunder in the middle of the night, and the bloodstained Ninth Thousand Years actually holds her and soothes her all night.

Jiang Li gradually realizes

that everyone in the residence seems to be making wild assumptions about her.

Even more outrageous...

Pei Ji, who is rumored to be “incapable of consummating a marriage,” looks at her with increasing danger in his eyes.

Until one day, she accidentally discovers Pei Ji's biggest secret.

He's not a eunuch at all!

Terrified, Jiang Li climbs over the wall and tries to flee in the middle of the night, only to be cornered by the man.

Pei Ji grips her slender waist, his eyes bloodshot and his voice low and hoarse:

“Madam, you flirt with me and then want to abandon me?”

“Who told you... that I can't perform, hmm?”

Later,

all the officials at court know one thing:

Better to provoke the King of Hell than Jiang Li.

Because the Ninth Thousand Years, who holds power over the entire court and is famously mad,

has become a lovesick mad dog who belongs to her alone.