Reborn, I Eloped with a Eunuch

[Upcoming Novel]

A capable, sharp-minded eldest daughter who holds the family together vs. a frail official's son raised as a proper young lady

Before she turned twelve, Meng Banyan had a happy family and a comfortable life.

Her family wasn't wealthy, but she'd never worried about having enough to eat or drink.

Then, when she was twelve, her father died on a merchant's journey. They couldn't even find his remains.

As the eldest daughter, Meng Banyan had no choice but to grit her teeth and shoulder the burden of preserving the Meng family's dignity.

From the age of twelve to twenty, she had only three goals:

First: Find her widowed mother a good husband once her mourning period ended. She absolutely couldn't spend the rest of her life alone.

Second: Give her grandparents a proper, dignified old age and send them off with honor. She couldn't let outsiders laugh at the Meng family.

Third: Go to the county office, register as a household in her own right, put her hair up, and make her own way in life.

Who could have guessed that the day before her twentieth birthday, her father, who'd been dead for eight years, would return?

The father who, in her memories, had loved her more than anyone had become the capital's most famous live-in son-in-law.

And he'd already taken it upon himself to promise her in marriage.

The reputation Meng Banyan had earned through eight years of hard work, as a dutiful, capable, thoughtful, and resourceful woman, suddenly seemed like a joke.

So what if she was angry and despairing? She couldn't really ruin her whole life just to prove a point.

Even if the sickly young master of the Vice Minister of Revenue's household was the worst,

he couldn't be worse than when her father died and she had no one to rely on at twelve. So fine, she'd marry him.

[Male Lead's Blurb]

As the only legitimate son of the Vice Minister of Revenue, Wu Cheng'an was born frail.

He also had several illegitimate younger siblings eyeing the family fortune in their father's hands. Their father was nicknamed the "Key to the Ministry of Revenue."

His parents had already exhausted themselves raising him safely to adulthood.

There was no way they could expect their sickly son to be both a scholar and a warrior and protect the family estate.

So he had no choice but to listen to his parents and marry Meng Banyan, who was said to be incredibly capable and formidable, able to take on ten people by herself.

But now that they were married, why was the formidable Meng Banyan so good at acting coy?

[Important Notes]

The heroine is neither reborn nor someone who has transmigrated, and the story reflects the limitations of its historical setting.

The heroine is twenty when she first appears, and the hero is twenty-five.

One-on-one romance.

The heroine is strong, and the hero is no pushover. (He really is frail, and he won't be much better by the end.)

The entire novel is already written.

[Blurb One]

In her previous life, Meng Qingqing was the empress the emperor loathed most. Reborn, she still has to be empress, but this time she will be the one holding the knife, and everyone else will be at her mercy.

The amorous young emperor wants to fool around with his younger brother's wife? She might as well tear down the wall and ladder together and make him hit the dirt face-first.

The white-lotus consort goes on and on about true love. Too bad that this time she entered the palace already pregnant. Will the young emperor's true love be enough to make him give up the throne, too?

The Empress Dowager never goes three sentences without saying how wronged Meng Qingqing has been. Too bad Meng Qingqing won't settle for empty words this time. If you know you've wronged me, then make it right.

Only Chen Nianzhen, who was obsessed with money in her previous life, is still the same: focused on squeezing money out of her while gritting his teeth and silently bearing the storms outside on her behalf.

Given another chance, Meng Qingqing sees everything clearly. This time, she'll repay kindness with kindness and settle scores with her enemies. Most importantly, she'll win over Chen Nianzhen, that eunuch!

The male lead is a eunuch, a real eunuch, and a handsome real eunuch!

One-on-one romance.

The plot, characters, background, clothing, customs, and setting are fictional, inspired by the Ming and Qing dynasties.

[Blurb Two]

Meng Qingqing: Chief Steward, want to date?

Chen Nianzhen: Your Majesty, have you taken your medicine?!

Meng Qingqing: The Chief Steward is my medicine

Chen Nianzhen: Her Majesty the Empress is bewitched and may have gone mad. She shouldn't stay in the palace any longer. Come with this servant instead!

Upcoming Novel

[Marry Someone After Coming Down the Mountain]

Wen Jiujiu was born into a family of martial artists, but her father died, leaving her the sole heir for three generations.

Raised as a delicate darling, Wen Jiujiu suddenly became a juicy target surrounded by wolves.

The clan's collateral branches and other sects all waited to seize her family's estate. The heroic chivalry from stories was nowhere to be seen.

In her previous life, driven into a corner, Jiujiu could only heed her mother's advice and marry the Prefect's son, bringing along the Zhao family's fortune.

Only after marrying him did she realize she'd escaped one den of wolves only to enter another.

The promise that their second son would take her surname, Wen, and inherit the Wen family estate came to nothing.

Her husband looked down on her for being from a martial family rather than an official's household, and took several concubines.

In the end, she lost her life and couldn't even protect her child.

Reborn, Wen Jiujiu tried to save her father, but was a step too late. She wanted to stand her ground and refuse the marriage, but couldn't beat her adversaries.

After turning it over in her mind, she finally made up her mind, gathered her dowry, came down the mountain, and set out to find a husband.

This time, Wen Jiujiu was smarter. She chose carefully and set her sights on a newly arrived assistant general at the Jiangzhou military camp.

Broad-backed, with a narrow waist and a tall, straight figure, he was just a little fierce-looking. He always wore a stern expression, and no one had ever seen him smile.

They said he came from the capital, and had left to seek work only after his entire family died.

He was nearly thirty and unmarried, and supposedly had some kind of hidden ailment that might shorten his life.

After thinking it over, Wen Jiujiu decided that someone with a life so hard that he had nothing left but bachelorhood was the perfect match for her.

So she simply took a matchmaker and went to his door to demand marriage.

Theme: Life is about breaking free from constraints and living well.