The Princess and the Eunuch

Coming soon: False Wife. Please add it to your collection. Blurb at the end.

Blurb:

[Spoiled princess x obsessive powerful eunuch]

In her previous life, on the way to a political marriage, Song Luan once tried to win over the eunuch Mu Yuanjia.

At the time, Mu Yuanjia lifted his eyes to look at her with an amused smile. "I wonder if the King of Beihu would mind his queen lowering herself to curry favor with a eunuch like me?"

Furious, Song Luan swept out of the tent.

Later, she lived in Beihu in constant fear. She died before she was even eighteen, while Mu Yuanjia enjoyed the emperor's favor in the capital and wielded power over the court.

When Song Luan opened her eyes again, she was back three years earlier, still the beloved eldest princess of Great Wei.

Mu Yuanjia, meanwhile, was the lowliest of servants, kneeling at her feet. "Your servant Chang Fu pays his respects to Your Highness."

Song Luan kicked his chin with the tip of her shoe. "That's a bad name. It's the same as one of the dogs in my palace. Change it."

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Yuanjia knew from the start that Song Luan was trying to win him over.

But the princess's methods were so clumsy that they felt more like condescending teasing and charity.

Yuanjia thought he saw right through her.

He had entered the palace as a eunuch, consumed by hatred. He would eliminate anyone who stood in his way, no matter how the court officials cursed him or the people despised him. A naive princess who had yet to come into her own was even less worthy of his attention.

But when he learned that Song Luan had chosen several potential husbands to avoid being sent off in a political marriage, jealousy drove him mad. On a cold night, he entered the inner chambers of Zhaoyang Palace and stood before the princess's bed, holding portraits of her "suitors," spattered with blood.

"If Your Highness doesn't want to be sent away, your servant can kill the King of Beihu. These men are all common, coarse, and base. How could they possibly be worthy of Great Wei's precious princess?"

Song Luan laughed in anger, looking him up and down. "If they aren't worthy, then are you?"

Yuanjia's expression did not change. He took a step closer, leaning down until he was almost touching Song Luan.

"In my pitifully incomplete state, I'm naturally even less worthy." Before Song Luan could relax, he added, "The court officials and common folk speak nonsense, but when they say I was born base and aim for the heavens, that part is true."

Otherwise, how could he have come to desire the princess for himself, with that desire growing stronger by the day?

[Reader's Guide]

1. A fictional setting. The heroine is reborn, the hero is a real eunuch, happy ending.

2. The heroine is a little scheming, but not much. Neither lead is perfect.

-- Coming soon: False Wife --

Song Wanyao discovers that after the heir of Duke Dingguo, Shen Mian, loses his sight, he seems to mistake her for his new bride.

Her parents have been exiled, and her younger brother has been arrested and taken to the Northern Commandery Office. Alone and unprotected, she is beautiful, and many people covet and threaten her. While fleeing in terror every day, she encounters the gravely wounded Shen Mian.

Shen Mian is in charge of the Northern Commandery Office. He's cold-blooded and suspicious. If she tells him the truth now, he won't accept her attempt to repay his kindness. At best, he'll kick her out. He might even have her arrested and interrogated.

Song Wanyao has no choice but to pretend to be his wife, trembling with fear all the while, and look for a chance to escape.

After two whole months, she finally uses this false identity to save her brother, then finds an opportunity to fake her death and run away.

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After Shen Mian is ambushed by his enemies on his way to meet the new bride his family arranged for him, he wakes up poisoned and blind, with a woman's voice nearby.

Following the sound, Shen Mian turns his head. "You..."

The woman calls softly, "My lord."

At least she seems to know her place and respect boundaries.

Shen Mian dislikes the marriage and plans to return to the manor and explain things to his parents once his eyesight recovers.

But his little wife seems unable to read his coldness. She dutifully sews clothes for him to wear, and when she sees his injuries, she sheds tears of sympathy...

She trusts only him and relies on him, wanting to cling to him every moment and hide in his arms.

-

Everyone in the capital knows that Shen Mian avoids women and supposedly felt little affection for his former wife.

Until one day, he suddenly turns to glare at the young lady of the Song family, laughing and chatting with another man in a flower garden.

Everyone sees the usually dignified and stern heir of Duke Dingguo give a cold laugh and order his subordinates to surround the entire mountain.

Theme: Where there's a will, there's a way