[Identity Swap] [The Real Eunuch] [Clear-Headed Palace Maid] [Revenge and Romantic Tension] [One-on-One, Both Leads Are Virgins]
Fang Jinyu entered the palace through the selection, but a birthmark on her body cost her a place, leaving her a low-ranking palace maid.
She was an orphan who had wandered from place to place. Because she looked just like the daughter of an eighth-rank official, she had taken the girl's place and come to the palace selection.
When she heard that the powerful Chief Eunuch, the Nine-Thousand-Year-Old, was looking for a wife, Fang Jinyu took the initiative, knocked on his door, and offered herself, forcing him to replace his original choice.
Everyone said she had walked straight into a trap. Marrying that ruthless, merciless eunuch would surely lead to a horrible death.
On their wedding night, she looked up at the man beside her pillow and was shaken to the core.
Ten years ago, he had been the illustrious, gentle, and refined young master Mei.
The Mei family had been a pillar of the former dynasty's civil service. When the new emperor ascended the throne, the entire Mei family was slaughtered.
Only the youngest son, who had been raised in a temple from childhood, survived by chance. He concealed his identity and rose from the lowest-ranking eunuch to the position of Chief Eunuch.
Fang Jinyu lowered her eyes and thought to herself: You and I are both lonely souls with no parents. It must be fate that we became husband and wife.
After the Crown Prince died, undercurrents surged through the court, and the power struggle between the Second and Fourth Princes grew increasingly fierce.
Then a scandal that shook the heavens broke, threatening the foundation of the Great You dynasty.
The Empress's eldest legitimate daughter was exposed as having Northern Di blood, and the Empress was sentenced to execution.
Before her execution, she threw her head back and wailed, "Every prince in the court is illegitimate! Heaven means to destroy my Great You!"
None of the current emperor's four sons or two daughters was born of the principal wife, so by law none could inherit the throne.
The only legitimate princess was said to have been born with an extraordinary omen, a phoenix mark on her shoulder.
If the current pampered and exalted eldest princess was an impostor, where had the true imperial princess gone?
Only Mei Zhaolin knew that on his young wife's shoulder was the phoenix birthmark, its wings spread as if crying out.
