The real heiress, Jiang Nian, had suffered in the countryside for fifteen years. Just after returning to the Marquis’s residence, her biased parents drugged her and forced her to take the place of the fake heiress in marrying Feng Jue, the disabled and temperamental Ninth Eunuch, a fake eunuch.
On her wedding night, Jiang Nian was bound to the “Villainous Spy System.” If she failed her missions, she would be electrocuted.
One mission ordered her to poison and humiliate him. Terrified, she fell to her knees and kowtowed, hands shaking. “My lord, the tea is hot. Let me cool it for you!”
Another ordered her to steal the account books and betray him. She groped around in the dark for ages, but when Feng Jue’s cold poison flared up, she felt sorry for him and gave him a massage instead, eventually falling asleep with her head on his lap.
Feng Jue was a devil in the dark, and he had already laid a deadly trap to kill the spy. But before any poison appeared, he used an arcane formation to intercept the “System” instead. Watching Jiang Nian tremble and cry, yet instinctively protect him, he softened.
So the mad chief eunuch secretly altered the System. The punishment changed from “lightning strike” to “kiss the villain for the time it takes an incense stick to burn.” The missions became “warm his bed” and “feed him grapes.” Jiang Nian broke down in tears at the absurd tasks, but could only cry as she carried them out.
Then the Marquis’s family came to cause trouble and demand the keys. The supposedly disabled chief eunuch stood up and shielded her, then sliced the Marquis’s residence’s plaque in half with one stroke of his sword.
That night, Jiang Nian was horrified to discover he wasn’t blind, disabled, or a eunuch! She tried to run away in the middle of the night, but Feng Jue cornered her by the bed. Eyes red, he shoved the altered System interface in front of her and said in a feverish, wounded voice, “My lady, today’s mandatory mission is ‘stay by your husband’s side without leaving him for a moment.’ You haven’t finished it yet. How dare you run?”
