Tan Sheng, the most beautiful woman in the capital, was the legitimate daughter of a distinguished family and was engaged to Liang Junfeng, the chancellor's son.
The noble young ladies of the capital were green with envy.
But as she embroidered her wedding dress, Tan Sheng discovered that Liang Junfeng, who appeared so refined and noble, was having an affair with her half-sister and secretly visiting brothels.
He even sneered to his gang of wastrel friends, “These pampered legitimate daughters are so boring. Those slender beauties are much more fun.”
Looking at the wedding dress she had nearly finished, Tan Sheng didn't know what to do.
Just then, the Eastern Palace began selecting consorts. Her stepmother deliberately left Tan Sheng behind at the palace gates, taking only her half-sister to the banquet.
Seeing her half-sister's smug smile, Tan Sheng gritted her teeth, grabbed her embroidered handkerchief, and climbed into the Eastern Palace carriage.
“Y-Your humble servant, Tan Sheng, pays her respects to the Crown Prince...”
Kneeling in the carriage, Tan Sheng stammered so badly she could barely finish a sentence.
The man in the red python robe drawled lazily, “Raise your head.”
Tan Sheng looked up and met a pair of sharp, wicked phoenix eyes.
“Are you afraid of me?” The man lifted her trembling chin with amused interest.
She thought she had escaped the tiger's den, only to fall into the wolf's lair. From then on, Tan Sheng was a legitimate young lady by day, but at night she burned incense and served a man.
Until one day, at a royal hunting banquet, powerful ministers and princes crowded around a man, smiling ingratiatingly and addressing him with reverence as Chief Eunuch Chu.
Tan Sheng alone was so frightened that her face turned pale.
The gorgeous man from that night had not been the Crown Prince at all. He was Chief Eunuch Chu, the head of the Imperial Workshop!
She had meant to get into the Eastern Palace carriage to meet the Crown Prince, but got into the Eastern Depot carriage by mistake and met the Chief Eunuch instead. What was she supposed to do after attracting the attention of that living King of Hell, who wielded absolute power?
- - -
Chu Linyuan was cruel and twisted. He climbed his way to the top over mountains of corpses and seas of blood, becoming Chief Eunuch Chu, a man so powerful that everyone feared him to their core.
He often found the world dull. The only thing that seemed at all interesting was toying with people and keeping them under his thumb.
Until one day, at a palace banquet, a little girl blundered onto his carriage.
Only then did he realize that teasing this beauty and watching her eyes turn red was the most interesting thing in the world.
He wanted Tan Sheng to stand above everyone, yet look only at him. He wanted the palace's red walls, the Imperial Depot, and the palace guards to become a cage around her.
1. This is a fictional setting, though it borrows some elements from the Ming dynasty.
2. The male lead is genuinely ruthless and black-hearted, a gorgeous madman who does whatever he pleases. He is a fake eunuch.
Theme: Express your love honestly
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