Scheming with a Eunuch

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[Currently updating: The second book in the same universe, "I Am the Waning Moon"]

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Blurb:

On her wedding night, news of a death arrives. Luan Hejun, the legitimate princess adored by all, takes off her wedding dress in the bridal chamber and puts on mourning clothes.

Her father is dead, her mother has passed away, and her husband's body is nowhere to be found. In one fell swoop, the world is turned upside down. The treasured pearl falls into ruin, and Luan Hejun becomes a star of ill omen, blamed for her father's, mother's, and husband's deaths.

Her half-brother, the new emperor, is lecherous and cruel, while the vicious Empress Dowager hides a dagger behind her smile.

Now at the bottom of the social order, Luan Hejun can only turn to the eunuch and powerful official she used to suppress. Lowering her eyes, she kneels at his feet. "I beg you, Lord of the Eastern Depot, to help me."

Her former political rival, Bai Chang, strokes the white cat beside him and draws her into his arms:

"Now that the princess has flown into my arms like a lost bird, how could I not cherish her?"

She will avenge her father, rule from behind the curtain, and reclaim the northern frontier. She will carve a path to the light from the depths of despair.

Later, the court ministers kneel and clamor for the regent princess to execute the wicked eunuch Bai Chang, in the name of honor and propriety.

Luan Hejun twirls a lock of Bai Chang's dark hair on the bed. "Lord of the Eastern Depot, they want me to kill you."

Bai Chang places the fine steel dagger he gave her in her hand, pressing it against his chest. He smiles. "If you can bear to, A Wan, then kill me."

The world says, "You can't bargain with a tiger and expect to come out ahead."

**Reading Guide:

1. Both leads are virgins; he is a true eunuch.

2. 1v1, happy ending.

3. Alternate history, very loosely based on history.

Cover artist: @Mu Da Baozi

"The Sword in the Brocade" blurb:

Bo Xi Lu picked up a slave in the midst of a battle.

A Han Chinese girl, with a soft waist, soft lips, and a pair of soft, pitiful almond eyes. She looked frightened and pure, and a touch would bring a string of tears.

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The girl clutched his clothes and sobbed. "General... I want to go home."

In this age of chaos, Bo Xi Lu was unmoved. "If you want to make a wish, go to a temple. If you want to live, shut up and stay put."

He was no merciful Buddha with downcast eyes. He was a battle demon soaked in blood in a living hell, the youngest and most formidable "Lord" in the history of the Wuqi tribe.

With an iron chain around her neck, he perversely wanted to see white jade stained with blood and a pearl covered in dust.

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With a beauty on his lap and a red horse beneath him, he finally carved out his own domain amid the chaos and became a king. From the deserts and wastelands swept by the western wind to the foot of Red Mountain in Liaodong, he finally raised a torch and led her into the ancestral gods' cave. Together, they carved their names into the stone wall. His voice grew husky with desire. "Ningning, be good. Let's have a child, all right?"

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A thousand miles away, south of the Huai River, the exiled imperial family of the Mo dynasty was forced off the throne by powerful ministers, and the Yin clan took over the realm.

The north and south faced off. Bo Xi Lu won battle after battle, but in the final battle, the new emperor of the Southern Court personally drove him into a desperate corner.

As a sword came down, the delicate girl he always held close and protected in his arms on horseback blocked its edge. "Brother, don't kill him."

Yin Yuening gazed at him as he slumped to the ground, smiling as sweetly as she always had. Then she personally fastened around his neck the chain she'd worn in the army. "I want him as my slave, forced to watch me marry in glory."

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A conquering war god from a foreign tribe x a delicate beauty forced to grow up

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Reading Guide:

1. Alternate history; everything serves the story.

2. Both leads are virgins; happy ending.

Upcoming novel, "The Peony Lady" blurb:

Zezhou lies in the Central Plains, a land rich in natural beauty and resources. For generations, its people have prized peonies, and everyone, from scholars to common folk, grows them.

Among them, the peonies grown by Zheng Yun are the finest.

Everyone in Zezhou knows that Zheng Garden, south of the city, boasts the most dazzling flowers in the land and the most aloof mistress.

Yet the peonies are beautiful, and their grower, Miss Zheng, is even more beautiful, inspiring countless admirers.

Painter Xue sends her paintings, Scholar Song writes her poems, and the young master of the Yuan family sends rouge one day and buys her bracelets the next, but Zheng Yun turns them all down without a fuss.

Then one morning, the refined and ethereal Miss Zheng finds a wandering boy at her gate and hires him as a laborer.

Once he has washed and dressed, the boy is as handsome as a piece of jade, with a figure like a bamboo stalk. He smiles and bows to Zheng Yun. "Thank you for taking me in, young lady."

Zheng Yun glares at him with her almond eyes. "Mind your manners!"

The boy's eyes curve like a crescent moon. "Thank you, big sister."

With this cheerful boy by her side every day, tending flowers and playing the zither, the usually reserved Zheng Yun begins to smile brightly and freely. In their spare time, they go together to Mo Ku Teahouse for a cup of strong, hot tea.

But the neighbors worry: Zheng Yun is on her own and vulnerable, and the boy has no family to speak of. How can the two of them uphold the Peony Lady's household?

Later, the newly appointed prefect tries to force Zheng Yun to marry him, but a squad of soldiers pins him to the ground. The once-destitute boy reaches out and knocks the black gauze cap from his head. "Liu Feng, have you got a death wish?"

Gao Linchu has never been loved by his father. Later, his older brother plots against him, and he ends up stranded in Zezhou.

He always believed that the world was cold and people cruel, but then he met the sincere-hearted mistress of the peony garden, who turned back among the flowers and smiled at him.

He is willing to let go of the coldness in his heart and share with her the simple pleasures of everyday life.

A fallen royal with a sweet exterior and dark heart x a cool on the outside, warm on the inside peony lady. Delicious food, beautiful people, famous flowers, fine wine, and the bustle of everyday life. A warm, everyday romance. Both leads are virgins, happy ending.

Theme: Finding the light even in the darkest depths of despair.