This novel is also called After Mistakenly Being Taken for a Eunuch, I Won the Emperor Over with Food
Heroine's story:
Before entering the palace, Qiukui thought she might be assigned to the imperial kitchen.
Who knew that several incidents would break out in the palace on the very day she arrived?
In the confusion, she was dressed in eunuch robes and pushed in front of the regent.
The regent pried open her mouth and stuffed a pill into it, his expression sinister. "Serve His Majesty well, and I'll let that thing of yours grow back. If he shows any unusual behavior, you must send me word. Understand?"
Qiukui's legs shook like a sieve.
What pill?
What emperor?
What messages?
Hadn't the old eunuch who took her money promised to get her into the imperial kitchen?
She was taken before the puppet emperor.
The gaunt emperor never looked at her.
He drank his medicinal soup while she stood under a tree.
He napped while she stood under a tree.
He teased his myna bird while she stood under a tree.
She didn't mind the hard work. She was just worried all day that something might grow on her body.
Then one day, she dragged her aching legs back to her room and cooked herself something over a little red clay stove.
A cold voice suddenly sounded behind her:
"What are you doing?"
"I-I'm making hot and sour noodles."
And so she watched the emperor stand beside the stove, holding a bowl and slurping up the very last noodle, and fell into deep thought.
The neglected eunuch Xiao Qiuzi suddenly becomes the emperor's favorite dining attendant.
One time, she accidentally injured her hand and couldn't make red bean fritters that day.
The emperor said with a stern face, "I order you not to accidentally hurt your hand again."
He immediately summoned the imperial physician to treat it.
Of course, she could avoid hurting her hand.
But, Your Majesty, you always choose to bathe in the water when this servant is there,
with a smile on your lips and joy in your eyes.
But this servant still hasn't grown any sort of thing!
What am I supposed to do?
Maybe...
run away.
Hero's story:
The late emperor died young, the regent seized power, and the young emperor was weak. He pretended to be frail and ill to avoid drawing the regent's attention.
To the outside world, he was bedridden and gaunt, and everyone said he would soon die.
Then one day, a handsome little eunuch arrived who could turn even plain millet and coarse flour into a feast.
Unable to resist, the emperor ate his way into a muscular chest, a six-pack, and a V-line...
He couldn't hide his rippling muscles under any clothes.
If he couldn't hide them,
then it was time
to seize power.
A little scene:
On the day the emperor seized power, the regent was thrown into the prison.
The palace was thrown into confusion for a while.
Qiukui immediately took off her eunuch robes, disguised herself as a palace maid, and tried to escape the palace at night with a bundle on her back.
Torches flickered. The usually stern emperor was waiting leisurely beside the dog hole she'd dug in advance.
He lifted her chin. His deep gaze gave away nothing.
"So you really are a woman."
Qiukui wept pitifully.
"I was a woman before, but who knows what sort of man's thing might grow on me in the future? I might end up a man, a woman, a human, or a monster..."
A glint of amusement flashed in the emperor's eyes as he said mildly, "Never mind. I can make do with any of those."
P.S. A sweet, everyday-life story. The heroine disguises herself as a man. Happy ending.
Theme: Love always appears in ways you never expect
