The Eunuch Beneath the Princess's Skirts

The former emperor dies, and the inner palace is torn apart by infighting. The eunuch faction installs the young emperor on the throne.

In that palace coup, every member of the imperial family and all the maternal relatives die except the new emperor.

Because Zhou Xinluo's birth mother was a slave, she was abandoned outside the palace as a child. By sheer luck, she survived, only to be forced into becoming the young emperor's guardian and regent princess.

Xinluo faces a perilous situation: on one side is the cabinet, constantly watching her every word and deed for mistakes; on the other is the cruel, scheming head of the eunuchs at her side, Zhao, the Director of the Seal, who holds the power to approve imperial edicts.

This half-baked princess, who rose from humble beginnings to a position of power, could fall into irredeemable ruin at the slightest frown.

And at a time like this, someone even uses her adoptive father's life to force her to pave the way for the cabinet and marry the head of the eunuchs.

Any ordinary woman would rather hang herself than suffer humiliation at the hands of a eunuch.

Throughout the vast palace, even the lowly servants in the Laundry Bureau, that lightless place, feel sorry for the princess.

On their wedding night, Zhao, the Director of the Seal, grips Xinluo by the neck, his expression sinister and terrifying. "Your Highness, what exactly did you come here to steal tonight?"

At last, Xinluo no longer has to hold herself back. Her face flushes with embarrassment as she carefully strokes the back of his veined hand with her fingertips, gazing up at him with reverent devotion.

Nervous and shy, she stammers, "I want to steal... your heart, Director Zhao."

Zhao's pupils tremble. As if desperate to get away from her, he lets go and forcefully shakes off the fingers climbing over his hand.

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Later, the great eunuch humbly waits in the palace corridors every day, braving the cold wind for his princess to pass by, hoping she will spare him another glance.

But the princess simply lifts her skirts and walks away. Hmph!

A princess whose secret crush comes true and who is hopelessly in love X a sinister, insecure, fiercely loyal senior eunuch

A hopelessly romantic princess only wants to fall in love, but nearly gets elevated to the throne by her outrageously capable eunuch loyalist. In her panic, she hurries to set things right and steer the treacherous eunuch back onto the proper path.

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Upcoming 1: I Want My Consort to Kill Me Every Day

Male lead's perspective:

Zuo Yuan has returned reborn to seek revenge. He swears that this life, he will kill the wanton princess who broke his leg and humiliated him in his previous life.

But he discovers that the wanton princess has started making nightly offerings, repenting for her misdeeds, and even secretly helping him when he gets into trouble.

But...! Good thing he was reborn. He won't be fooled so easily by a cunning woman.

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Female lead's perspective:

Princess Yinfu discovers that she is the villainess in a storybook. She is debauched, greedy, and lustful, and will eventually die at the hands of the little beggar she took in and raised.

It turns out that the handsome little beggar before her is a remnant of the previous dynasty, hunted by her father, the emperor. He is the chosen one, the protagonist of the storybook, and one day he will destroy the Great Jin.

Yinfu looks at Zuo Yuan, whose leg she just broke and whom she was about to have a doctor amputate it for...

It turns out that the characters in the storybook cannot escape their predetermined fates. But if a villain sincerely repents, secretly helps the protagonist without being discovered, and reaches the storybook's ordained ending, then after completing the story arc, she can start a new life and live freely in a corner.

So, in the dead of night, Yinfu carries a pile of gold ingots and candles to a side hall, secretly burning them in offering to the former imperial family as she weeps and repents.

She threatens the finest imperial physician in the palace at knifepoint, making him disguise himself as a quack from the countryside to treat Zuo Yuan's leg.

When Zuo Yuan is at the end of his rope, she anonymously and generously gives him money.

Even when Zuo Yuan wants to use her to gain military power, marries her, and then treats her as a human medicine to save the woman he loves, Yinfu still cheerfully swallows a huge vat of herbal medicine every day. Without so much as blinking, she cuts into herself to draw blood, leaving everyone around her horrified.

Zuo Yuan stares at the empty medicine vat, much larger than her frail body, as it rolls across the ground. He clenches his fist, his mind in turmoil.

At last, the moment arrives for her, the villainess, to fulfill her predetermined fate.

Yinfu dresses up carefully in advance and arrives at the city gate, beaming.

At the last moment, Zuo Yuan regrets it. Bloodied and wielding a halberd, he cuts down anyone in his way and blocks her path at the city gate.

But Yinfu still leaps down.

Upcoming 2: Taming the Wolf

During a palace coup in the Southern Kingdom, blood runs through the imperial capital. Princess Xiangfu, once the Southern Kingdom's most beloved beauty, is ordered captured.

Her maid is shot to death, her body riddled with arrows, while trying to save her. Xiangfu flees to the Blackwater Forest, a lawless region between the Southern and Northern Kingdoms.

The rebels, unaware of who she is, chase her into the forest. Deep among the leaves, pairs of green beast eyes gleam with murderous intent.

The rebels are torn to pieces. The little princess trembles as she peeks out from among the corpses.

The wolf king at their head is a young werewolf, dressed in animal skins and wearing animal teeth, with a pair of beautiful phoenix eyes.

"I... I'm afraid of pain... Please don't kill me... All right?" The little princess begs through her tears. "I want to live. I'll do anything..."

The werewolf tilts his head, seeming to understand.

He carries the little princess back to his den and makes her his wife.

Later, in order to escape him, the princess conspires with her imperial brother to kill him. They cannot kill him, and wherever she flees, he always finds her. So she decides she might as well die right in front of him...

The year the princess "dies," the young wolf king wanders alone every night beneath the mulberry tree she loved to climb. He howls in grief until his cries seem to bleed, and the crescent moon turns red.

He doesn't know that she only loved climbing the mulberry tree because it let her get away from him.

Later, the Northern Kingdom defeats the Southern Kingdom. For the sake of her homeland, Princess Xiangfu sacrifices her own happiness and goes to the Northern Kingdom as a concubine.

The mysterious new ruler of the Northern Kingdom is said to have been brought back from a neighboring country by the old king only a few years ago.

That cold new ruler stands before Princess Xiangfu in her dance costume. His long, pale fingers grip her chin and force it up.

That handsome face, like one from a nightmare, appears before Xiangfu again.

"After you died, do you know how many mulberry trees I planted for you? And now you tell me you aren't dead? Hmm?"

Upcoming 3: After I Mistook the Wrong Crown Prince for My Lover

Susu is a young courtesan who has yet to be initiated at an obscure brothel in Suzhou.

Tired of that life, she is urged by her friends to find a patron to support her.

She has no idea what kind of man to look for, so her friends give her some advice: if she wants a patron, she should find the most talented man in all of Suzhou.

Susu knows that the most talented man in Suzhou works for the military headquarters. His talent is second only to that of the crown prince, who has possessed extraordinary statecraft since childhood, not just in Suzhou but perhaps throughout the entire Great Jin.

Susu thinks that's going to be difficult.

But one day, she hears that the great talent was injured and disabled while offering a strategy in battle. Even his hand was ruined, and the people at the military headquarters threw him out like a beggar.

Susu drags him back through the rear gate of the military headquarters and takes him to the shabby little house she bought with her savings.

"Zhenzhen, don't be afraid. Those people don't want you, but you still have me."

Susu naively thinks that at last they are a suitable match: a beggar who made a terrible mistake and was stripped of his position and thrown out, and a low-class prostitute.

She doesn't mind that he's disabled and will treat him very, very well.

Later, she discovers just how badly she's mistaken.

She even got the wrong person!

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Crown Prince Li Longzhen is seriously injured and stranded in Suzhou. As he seeks help in front of the military headquarters, a scatterbrained girl drags him away on the spot and forces him to become her patron.

Taking advantage of his injuries and difficulty walking, the girl has her way with him. She even shamelessly says she'll build him a golden house one day.

How can Li Longzhen put up with this?

Later, once he has recovered, Li Longzhen finds the chance to return to the capital and sends people to capture the bold shrew. Only then does he learn it was all a misunderstanding: the man she was originally looking for was You Zhenyun.

As a wise ruler, he ought to let the matter go. She didn't know who he was, and besides, she saved his life.

But the more Li Longzhen thinks about it, the angrier he gets. He makes the most irrational decision of his life and abducts her to the capital as his mistress.

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Susu refuses to be confined to one place and tries to escape time and again.

One time, the crown prince nearly drives her to her death. Afterward, he is terrified and full of regret. The man who is capable of everything, from literary and military arts to statecraft, is utterly helpless, his hands shaking uncontrollably.

"What will it take for you to stay by my side?"

Intent on making things difficult for him, Susu blurts out, "Unless you make me crown princess."

The crown prince of a kingdom and a brothel courtesan: a pairing that would only invite ridicule.

But Susu never expects him to take her seriously.

#Oh, this is such a hassle! I wanted to be a player, but now the crown prince won't leave me alone.#

#What use do I have for a crown princess's position if I can't play the field?#

Upcoming 4: The Little Princess of a Fallen Kingdom (Groveling Arc)

The little princess, who was cherished by Emperor Wen, has grown up.

She has been raised to be spoiled and unruly. Even a jade lotus from the Heavenly Mountains would be picked for her by someone.

During a mishap, the little princess is saved by Mu Yu, a disfavored hostage from a neighboring country who was casually sent to the Southern Palace.

The little princess is determined to marry him. Emperor Wen is furious and makes his threat clear: she can marry him only if she is demoted to a commoner.

Mu Yu is sinister, erratic, sensitive, and insecure. After they marry, the little princess suffers no shortage of hardship because of him.

Mu Yu's clothes have been in tatters for years. The little princess, who once spent thousands of gold pieces pampering herself, now mends them with her tender hands, not a single one of her ten fingers unscathed.

That spoiled girl even learns to wash clothes, gather firewood, and cook for herself.

But Mu Yu only wanted to exploit her status from the start. Now that Emperor Wen has turned against her, he grows more and more impatient whenever he sees her.

The two kingdoms go to war, and with the Southern Kingdom on the verge of defeat, Mu Yu takes pity on the little princess. He casually takes her back to his country to serve as a bedwarmer and gives her food to eat.

But when the little princess sees her dead father and brothers, she strides up to the city wall in a frenzy and leaps to her death for her country.

Mu Yu arrives just in time to watch her pink figure fall like a broken butterfly's wing. He goes mad.

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When they meet again, the little princess is on horseback with a great general. Her eyes are clear, and she still doesn't remember him. Her delicate hands grip a sword, and it takes five thrusts to pierce his body. Watching blood gush out, he asks hoarsely whether she can remember him now.

But the little princess only gets angry. "No way. The only person I've ever loved is my big brother, the general!"

Theme: Live bravely