The Eunuch Has a Dark Moonlight

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Lu Wenxing, the powerful chief eunuch who holds sway over the imperial court, and Zhao Ruyi, the Consort Dowager banished to the Cold Palace, once had a thing between them.

Unfortunately, Zhao Ruyi couldn't endure their poverty and abandoned her lover halfway through, climbing the social ladder to become a consort.

But fortunes change. Zhao Ruyi, once glorious and doted on, was driven into the Cold Palace to eat leftovers, while Lu Wenxing, once scorned by everyone, rose step by step until he became The Outcast, second only to the emperor and above all others.

So he smugly and ostentatiously sent someone over to "take a look."

He just wanted to see how much this vain, heartless woman regretted what she'd done!

The sarcastic, hypocritical (and purehearted) chief eunuch * The vain but flirtatious consort in the Cold Palace

Reading guide:

1. SC. This story is melodramatic, extremely melodramatic, and unbelievably melodramatic. The male lead is a loyal puppy. At first, love turns to hate, making him twisted and sarcastic; later, hate turns back to love, and he becomes a thoughtful, sweet little darling.

2. The setting is so fantastically fictional that it's practically nonexistent. The female lead is selfish and difficult!

3. Eunuchs are completely castrated, just as thoroughly as Jinjiang's censorship rules demand.

This is a story about you treating me as a substitute and thinking I love you deeply, while in truth I also treat you as a substitute, just to console myself.

When the emperor arranged a marriage, Qi Changying, the only daughter of the Prince of Zhenbei, married Pei Jinyu, the son of a great general.

Everyone in Chang'an knew that young Master Pei had been in love with the second daughter of the Zhao family since he was young.

He was crazy about her, obsessed with her, and would bang his head against a wall for her.

Even on the day she married, he specially summoned troops to intimidate her husband, in case the Second Miss Zhao was mistreated by her in-laws.

After the woman he loved got married, Pei Jinyu was dejected for a while. Then, one day, with nothing else to do, he suddenly realized that his wife, who had married into his family but whom he had never met, looked a little like the Second Miss Zhao!

What's more, his wife seemed quite infatuated with him: she secretly watched him, kept his portraits hidden away... and had even had a crush on him for years!

Pei Jinyu's old face grew warm. He gave a light cough. "Since that's the case, let's just make the best of it..."

But he never imagined that, in Qi Changying's eyes, he was merely a poor substitute, too!

So how is this worthless substitute supposed to win his wife back?!

Reading guide:

1. Neither the male nor female lead has been with anyone before. The male lead has someone else in his heart and initially treats the female lead as a substitute for his beloved. He never expected to miscalculate and become someone else's substitute instead.

2. There's no major angst in the story. It's mostly a battlefield of romantic rivals and melodrama. They seem to love and hate each other, but really they're just like kids shoving each other around.

3. The plot owes everything to the male lead: "We were never meant to meet; it was all thanks to my narcissism!"

Theme: Eliminate discrimination and prejudice against a romantic partner's identity, and vigorously promote equality between both sides of a relationship.