I Want to Pamper the Eunuch in Charge

[Not a wish-fulfillment novel! No piracy, please!]

[Coming soon: When a Great Ruler Begins by Learning to Read, about an empress. Coming soon: Blasphemy, everyone is a villain. The blurbs for both are at the end. Feel free to add them to your collection if you're interested~]

[Blurb]

+ A real eunuch / mutual devotion / mutual healing / gentle, beautiful, strong, and tragic male lead

Everyone knew how passionately Li Zi liked Xie Mingzhi. Everyone also knew how decisively Xie Mingzhi rejected her.

She thought Xie Mingzhi truly hated her.

But after she disappeared, Xie Mingzhi, who had always obeyed the emperor without question, entered the Golden Hall with a blade in hand. His once-gentle eyes were now filled with cold killing intent.

"Where is she?"

Xie Mingzhi held the blade to the emperor's throat, all for the sake of finding her.

·

Li Zi was the daughter of the Minister of the Court of Judicial Review. Her mother died when she was young, and she was raised on the borderlands. She was willful and uninhibited. When she first met Xie Mingzhi, she was the domineering, unruly daughter her father complained about, while Xie Mingzhi was the teacher her father had specifically invited to discipline her.

She had been able to read people's minds since childhood. Whenever she made physical contact with someone, she could hear their thoughts.

She had heard Xie Mingzhi's thoughts twice in all.

The first time was when Xie Mingzhi came looking for her in the rain after she left home in a fit of pique.

The second time was when Xie Mingzhi denied her feelings for him during the Lantern Festival.

Xie Mingzhi came from the Xie family, a family of imperial tutors. He was as radiant as the moon, a gentle and upright gentleman, gifted in both letters and arms. He should have been the most brilliant young official in Jinguan City. But on the day he achieved the highest honors in the imperial examinations, the Xie family was convicted of a crime, and Xie Mingzhi became a eunuch.

His ardent ambitions and aspirations vanished with the blood spilled when the Xie family was beheaded. He thought he would spend the rest of his life empty and hollow.

But Li Zi, her eyes red, told him:

"I always feel like no one in this world could love you more than I do, but I'm afraid I'm the only one who loves you... Xie Mingzhi, you're wonderful. You really are!"

At first, he thought Li Zi was just a child who couldn't tell filial affection from romantic love. But when Li Zi kissed him without a care for the people laughing at her during the Lantern Festival,

he knew.

Li Zi had gone mad.

And so had he.

Li Zi had thought Xie Mingzhi cared for her only as a teacher cares for a student. But no matter what, she had caught hold of a man as gentle as a breeze over water, and she had no intention of letting go.

But the instant their lips met, Xie Mingzhi's thoughts rang in her heart, loud as thunder.

"I want to be with Yi'er for all eternity."

"No one knows that he likes Li Zi, not even he himself."

[Reading Guide]

A true gentleman, beautiful, strong, and tragic; a gentle, real eunuch x a rebellious, unruly girl starved of love.

One-on-one romance, happy ending.

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[Coming Soon] When a Great Ruler Begins by Learning to Read

Jiang Tingxian became emperor at the age of six, but she was always too busy eating, drinking, and having fun to attend to state affairs. By the time she was fourteen, she had nearly ruined the whole country.

One day, she was still asleep in bed, completely unaware of what was happening, when a voice suddenly sounded in her heart.

"You're about to die."

Jiang Tingxian woke up at once and shouted at the empty palace, "You're the one who's going to die! Your whole family is going to die!"

Then the voice continued: "A palace attendant will soon come in to serve you a meal. There's a dagger hidden beneath the tray, meant to assassinate you."

Jiang Tingxian did not believe it at first, but the dagger really did swipe past her neck.

She believed it then, and collapsed to the floor.

"What should I do? I don't want to die!"

"Ensure the kingdom endures."

·

Wei Shu was the seventh prince of Wei, an uncherished son with a bewitching beauty. He was sent to Jin as a hostage and tasked with seducing the emperor with his looks, so that Jin would fall.

He thought seducing a useless emperor would be a piece of cake. But when he reached for the emperor's belt, the emperor blushed and firmly refused him.

"My consort, you mustn't. I have to work for the people's happiness."

Then the young emperor spent the whole night writing furiously and reviewing memorials.

Later, Wei Shu stood behind the young emperor with a dagger, ready to strike. But the fourteen-year-old emperor held up a memorial, pointed at one of the characters, and looked at him with reddened eyes.

She was on the verge of tears.

"My consort, how do you read this character?"

·

Everyone in Jin knew that the emperor had changed. She now worked on state affairs day and night. They thought Jin had a chance, but just a few days later, she began summoning Wei Qi to her bed every day.

The old officials shook their heads and sighed, convinced the emperor was beyond saving.

Everyone thought the emperor had become addicted to beauty, but the palace attendants who lit the lamps at night saw that both the emperor and Wei Qi were at their desks, dark circles under their eyes as they handled state affairs.

Once Jiang Tingxian finished reviewing a memorial, she handed it to Wei Shu to check. The once-arrogant emperor stood before him, utterly humble.

"My consort, I used to be too playful and neglected state affairs for so long. I don't know how to deal with them. If I make any mistakes in my reviews, please be patient with me."

Then Jiang Tingxian twisted the hem of her clothes between her hands and spoke quietly.

"My consort, could you... could you not smack my palm today?"

Wei Shu looked at the pitiful little emperor in front of him, blinked his charming eyes, and smiled.

"All right."

[Bonus Scene]

In the first year after Wei Shu was sent to Jin, the Wei imperial family waited eagerly for news that the Jin emperor had died.

But the first year passed with no news...

The second year, still nothing...

In the third year, an attendant came running in from outside. The Wei imperial family was overjoyed and hurriedly asked, "Well? What happened? Did the Jin emperor die?"

"No. The Jin army is invading!"

Coming Soon: Blasphemy

From birth, Jiang Li had a striking red mole between her brows. She was gentle and beautiful, with a lovely appearance and a kind disposition. Everyone who had ever worked with her remembered her fondly.

Xuan Yan was the son of a princess and a deity. Born with heterochromia and accompanied by heavenly omens, he was revered as a god by the people from the moment he was born. When he grew up, he could determine life and death and the fate of the nation. At fifteen, he was appointed State Preceptor.

A jade horsetail whisk hung from his arm, and a blood-red beauty mark sat at the corner of his eye. Yet he was detached and aloof.

At first, she was Xuan Yan's maid and the State Preceptor's most devoted believer.

But after one mistake, she was sent to serve in Prince Chen's residence. Prince Chen was fond of women, and even fonder of tormenting them.

Jiang Li ran out of the hall in disarray and fell to the ground. The State Preceptor was right in front of her. She reached out, grabbed his robe, and begged him:

"Please, save me!"

The State Preceptor was a god. Surely he could save her.

But she heard her god lean down and say, "If you're dead, you won't suffer anymore."

Xuan Yan's expression was detached and serious, as if this were the greatest mercy he could offer the world.

·

That night, she returned to Prince Chen's residence of her own accord, while Xuan Yan turned and left as if he had never been there.

She did everything she could to please Prince Chen. Later, he gave her to the emperor, and she became the emperor's most favored consort.

Inside the Lushan Temple, the emperor and the others paid their respects before the solemn divine statue. Behind it, a scene unfolded that belonged in a room draped with red silk curtains.

She leaned close to Xuan Yan's ear and affectionately called him by his childhood name. "They say gods have no human emotions or desires. Changci, why don't you show them whether you do?"

·

After spending every day watching the State Preceptor, so refined and graceful, Jiang Li had long harbored a wicked desire. She wanted to defile the divine. If she couldn't climb up to him, then she would make the god fall.

The devoted believer knelt before the divine statue, praying again and again with utmost sincerity.

"I, Jiang Li, offer the fortune of my whole life in exchange for Xuan Yan to fall from his lofty perch!"

My god,

you must fall.

you must be shattered to pieces...

Theme: Enjoy life while you can.