She transmigrated into the body of the infamous eunuch's younger sister. The moment she opened her eyes, she saw her brother being beaten by a group of people.
The siblings had just lost their parents. Their servants had run off with the money and valuables, and their relatives were fighting over the family estate.
Her brother was about to be driven to cut himself and enter the palace as a eunuch, just to leave her a little money for medical treatment. Xie Yun Zhao dragged herself out of bed and smashed the medicine jar.
If he'd saved her life, then he belonged to her. Whether he became a eunuch was for her to decide!
*
As the only son, Xie Yong had been a household menace since childhood. In his youth, he chased chickens and dogs. When he grew up, he squandered money and drank freely.
He thought he'd have an easy life forever. But in a single night, both his parents died, and he fell from the clouds into the mud, tasting every hardship life had to offer.
When his former hangers-on lifted a leg and told him to crawl underneath it, like Han Xin crawling between someone's legs, Xie Yong clenched his teeth in fury: Those who humiliate me will pay a hundredfold someday!
If he could avenge his parents, becoming a eunuch was still better than being a dog.
But just as he steeled himself to wield the knife, his adopted younger sister, the burden his parents had picked up along the way, suddenly threw herself in front of the blade.
"Second Brother, I'm scared."
*
A grand chancellor to two dynasties and a capable minister of his age, Xie Yong had only one regret as he lay dying: He'd been too powerless when he was young, and his Zhaozhao had suffered so much.
