The Eunuch Supervisor Is Always Trying to Win Himself Over

Orphaned Qiao Zhiwan disguises herself as a man and sneaks into the Eastern Depot. She only wants to keep her head down, find her father’s keepsakes, and leave.

But things don’t go as planned: she catches the eye of the most terrifying man in the Eastern Depot.

Supervisor Ling Xiao, known as the Nine-Thousand-Year Lord, is decisive and ruthless. The entire court fears him.

He’s so perceptive that he immediately spots something suspicious about the clumsy little errand boy.

Qiao Zhiwan has no choice but to grit her teeth and do her best to play the part of an incompetent nobody under his watchful eye.

But the harder she tries, the more she gives herself away. The more she gives herself away, the more responsibility she’s entrusted with. And the more responsibility she gets, the more he gives her… special attention?

Then one day, she accidentally reveals that she’s a woman.

She thinks he’ll kill her to keep her quiet.

Instead, he falls silent for the whole night. The next day, he brings her a bowl of medicine as usual, with a note underneath:

“Take your medicine when you wake up. Don’t hide things from me again.”

Even more frightening, the “ruthless” Nine-Thousand-Year Lord begins looking at her with an expression she can’t understand.

Then he quietly pushes the plate of candied fruit away and sinks into deep thought for days…

Qiao Zhiwan: “Lord Supervisor, what exactly are you thinking about?”

Ling Xiao: “Nothing.”

(In his heart: Have I fallen for a man? No, she’s a woman. Wait, then what was I agonizing over before?)

[A timid-looking but shrewd heroine × a gentlemanly-seeming hero who overthinks himself into love]

[Disguised as a man + he discovers her identity first, then falls for her + sweet romance amid the realities of life + one-on-one happy ending]