Spring Comes to the Palace Gate

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December 2, 2023: Main story completed.

When they first met, Fang Wei was a eunuch who swept the temple and tended its incense lamps. In a single day, he cleaned more incense burners than he met people. Lu Yuzhen was an ordinary-looking courtesan, one of eight or ten thousand women along the Qinhuai River.

By chance, she came into his life.

Later, he won the emperor's favor and played the power game, rising through the ranks to become the Directorate of Ceremonial's chief eunuch. She learned acupuncture and medicine-making, gradually becoming a fairly well-known female physician.

He never told her that at first, he had only wanted to keep her safe. She never told him that at first, she had only wanted to cure his migraines.

The world was harsh. Everyone struggled to survive under imperial rule, as small as a speck of dust in the wind. But there were always some things you could hold on to, like the person in your arms right now.

Because of you, I have fallen in love with this world again.

About this novel:

1. Happy ending.

2. The male lead is a real eunuch, and his physical condition brings practical difficulties to his daily life.

3. The female lead has been married, worked in a brothel, and received clients. The male lead has only ever had the female lead.

4. The eunuch ranks and duties in this novel are based on Notes from the State of the Wine Cup and Unofficial Records of the Wanli Era. Some details have been adjusted.

5. The setting imitates the Ming Dynasty. The judicial, taxation, and estate management systems in the story are based on relevant historical sources, though some descriptions may be inaccurate. Most of the Chinese medicine knowledge is researched, but some cases are fictionalized.

6. Some characters are based on real people, but please don't try to match them up.

7. Updates every Monday, Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday at midnight, with occasional bonus chapters on Fridays.

8. Anti-piracy protection is enabled at a 40% ratio. This won't affect readers who bought the novel before it went premium.

Core idea: I send my sorrow to the bright moon, to follow you all the way west to Yelang.