A Maid with Arched Brows, a Darling in the Lord's Lap

[A genuinely twisted, dark, obsessive, and sickly male lead x a sunny heroine who doesn't realize she's flirting] [Fake eunuch] [Mutual salvation] [Growing together]

Everyone knows that Shang Minchen, the chief eunuch of the Imperial Household, holds the power of life and death. He is ruthless and sinister, and his very name makes the officials tremble.

The young man is cruel and cold-hearted. Everyone in the palace avoids him like the plague, and each person who sees him trembles as they call him, “Nine-Thousand-Year-Old.”

On the night of the palace coup, flames blazed across the sky, and corpses littered the ground.

Shang Minchen walked over bloodied ruins. He had no intention of stopping.

But huddled by the wall was a tiny figure.

He picked her up and carried her back to the Eastern Depot.

Shang Minchen had met countless people in his life.

Flatterers, schemers, those who wanted to share his bed, and those who wanted to use him.

But the girl in Zhaoming Hall was the only one who was so plainly foolish and so passionately naive. Even her flattery came out all wrong, yet somehow she stumbled straight into the heart that had been cold for over a decade.

The girl depended on him, like a parasitic vine clinging to a towering tree.

Miaoning was the most inconspicuous palace maid in Zhaoming Hall.

She had no grand ambitions. She just wanted to eat good food every day, learn to read with the Director, and live a peaceful life.

She thought she was good at keeping secrets, secretly passing messages to her sister and saving a little money for herself. Little did she know that every move she made was watched by those eyes, cold as stars.

People in the palace whispered that Miss Miaoning had hit the jackpot.

What they didn't know was that she had saved the life of a man who should have rotted in the mud long ago.