A Thousand Years, Lord Eunuch

Yun Jingwan went from being the daughter of a high-ranking official to a government courtesan, spending ten years lost in darkness. To find a sliver of hope, she finally steeled herself to offer her body. But as she went to serve him with graceful steps, she had no idea that the cold, unfeeling man before her was Jiang Huaiyue, the powerful eunuch of the Western Depot. * * * I once thought I would wander alone through the dark, endless night, with no way home. I never expected that from now on, someone would hack through the brambles and walk by my side. #How can steel, tempered a hundred times, become soft as a finger's touch?# #The male lead is the commander of the Western Depot, a real eunuch, and no good man. Set in an alternate Ming dynasty during the Chenghua era. Please don't nitpick the historical details.# The audio drama is now available on Ximalaya, voiced by Xueyue Zhixia, Chen Xuan, Yun Tianhe, and others. The companion novel, The Retired Emperor Is Only Twenty-Three, has started. If you're interested, look for it in my author page~ Blurb: Tang Yao had been in the palace for two years and had not even seen the emperor once. She spent her days taking life at an unhurried pace, relaxed and idle. Who would have thought that just before His Majesty's seventieth birthday, the emperor would suddenly die, and Tang Yao, who wasn't even a consort, would end up on the list of women to be buried with him? Her desperate struggle was futile. In the end, a cup of poisoned wine sent her deep into the imperial mausoleum. In the dark, cold underground palace, everyone but her was dead. Tang Yao wept at the top of her lungs, but unexpectedly knocked open a hidden stone door. A young man sat up angrily in a white jade coffin. "Who disturbed my rest?!" * * * Chu Yunxi began campaigning at fifteen. In an age of chaos, he cut a bloody path through the world on a white horse with a long spear, and ascended the magnificent throne of a founding emperor. He thought he had secured an empire that would last for generations. Then a gleaming dagger plunged into his back. He thought it was just a nightmare, but when he opened his eyes again, he was in a mausoleum, facing only a frightened woman destined to be buried alive with him. Worse still, the empire he had worked so hard to build was on the verge of collapse! The "difficult" mission to save the nation undertaken by a short-tempered, capable, decisive retired emperor and a lazy little palace consort who never causes trouble. Theme: Redemption and love