A Powerful Official's Path to Winning a Wife

Mu Shu is a princess of the realm, yet everyone despises her, cursing her as a bringer of calamity and treating her as an ill omen. She suffers hardship all her life and dies in the depths of winter, with no one to mourn her. All because the Imperial Preceptor reads her fate: a lone star of deadly misfortune, destined to bring harm to her family and ruin to the nation. Pei Yi, the Chief Eunuch of the Directorate of Ceremonial, is treacherous and ruthless, with power over the entire court. For reasons unknown, he conspires with an enemy kingdom to destroy the Tianyuan Dynasty. After drinking a cup of poisoned wine, the great villain Pei Yi is no more. They say Pei Yi clawed his way up from the lowly position of a cleaning eunuch over ten years to reach his current station. Now he has taken his own life. The world cannot understand: why? The stars shift, and time turns back. Pei Yi, Grand Secretary of Tianyuan, entered officialdom through the imperial examinations. Learned and skilled in political intrigue, he is a peerless man of his age. No one knows that this celebrated Grand Secretary, who seems as fragile as a scholar, has countless lives on his hands. Poisoning the emperor, altering the imperial edict, murdering the heir apparent, controlling the entire court: every one of these deeds is treason! Even fewer know that Pei Yi is reborn from a return through time, and that he spends his whole life striving to change one person's fate! He kept it hidden from everyone, but at last the truth comes out. Mu Shu looks at the person kneeling before her. A fine, needle-prickling ache fills her heart. After a long while, she softly says, "So this seemingly dreamlike, happy life was all thanks to you, you foolish thing. It seems only the rest of my life can repay your foolish devotion across both lifetimes." Pei Yi looks up at his Highness, obsession surging in his eyes like a tide, almost to the point of madness. In a hoarse voice, he says, "Your Highness gave me hope, so... you can never take it back." "All right." If you like it, please add it to your favorites! I'm a new author, so please be gentle (humbly). Theme: Braving ice and snow to warm your beloved