Reunited in the Palace with My Eunuch Fiancé

[Palace intrigue and power games] + [The fallen official's daughter fights her way back] + [Eunuch x true ambition] + [Mutual salvation] + [A blade in her name, love as her weapon]

Shen Qingci, daughter of a condemned official, sees her entire family executed and is sent to the palace laundry, where she makes a living washing chamber pots. To survive, she spends half a year's savings bribing a matron and makes her way into the emperor's bed. After one night of favor, the emperor turns cold and denies it ever happened: "Forget it."

She kneels on the icy brick floor, her nails digging into her palm, but not a single tear falls.

Ajiu, the chief eunuch in attendance, saves her on one condition: "Be my blade."

He teaches her to serve tea without trembling, kneel on gravel without crying, and identify people by their scent, pushing her step by step back to the emperor's side. She schemes in the imperial bed while he keeps watch outside the hall. When her hand shakes as she kills, he offers her a bloodstained handkerchief.

She thinks he is her ally, until she discovers that he hides her father's keepsake in his sleeve, was sold into the palace at nine, and bears the surname Shen.

And the way he looks at her has long since crossed the line between player and pawn.

"I want you to live. Only then can you bring your mother back."

From the palace laundry to the Palace of Heavenly Purity, from washing chamber pots to becoming a low-ranking concubine, she advances step by step, hiding a blade behind her smile. The harem's schemes, the empress's tests, Consort De's humiliation: she kneels with a smile and wins on her feet.

This is a road of blood. She will walk it to the end.