On the seventh day after Jiang Li died of illness, the soul in the little palace maid Jiang Nizi's body quietly changed.
In Nizi's body, Jiang Li was dumbfounded.
She thought the King of Hell must have dozed off on the job and skipped the reincarnation step, sending her straight into this cage.
But it wasn't until Jiang Li saw the protagonist's halo above the little eunuch's head with her own eyes that she realized: Oh my, she'd transmigrated into a book.
As it happened, the protagonist of the book, Eunuch Lu, had only been in the palace for a little over a month.
To live a long life, Jiang Li made a decision that went against her ancestors' wishes: she would cling to this powerful man's coattails.
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Lu Sheng had been troubled lately. Somehow, he had attracted the attention of a silly little palace maid, despite always being easy to overlook.
The little palace maid tossed him half a rock-hard steamed bun and told him to eat it in secret, where no one could see.
Ridiculous. He never accepted handouts.
Lu Sheng, tormented by hunger that night: Well, that's actually pretty good.jpg
The little palace maid smiled whenever she saw him. She didn't seem very bright. He'd told her not to bother him, but she never listened. One day she gave him a bun, the next day sesame candy, as if she were afraid he'd starve to death.
So annoying. He didn't like her.
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After entering the Forbidden City as a eunuch, Lu Sheng swore to trample underfoot everyone who had ever bullied him and grind their bones to dust.
He exhausted every scheme, planned every step, and climbed to power over a mountain of corpses.
But only in front of that silly palace maid did he clumsily put on a mask of kindness.
So he did evil while feeling guilty about it, living as a two-faced, black-hearted steamed bun.
[Notes]
1. A naturally sweet heroine gets the better of a scheming hero. Everyday-life story.
2. The male lead is a real eunuch.
3. An alternate Ming dynasty with lots of original worldbuilding. One-on-one romance, happy ending, both leads' first time.
4. Former title: The Eunuch Director's Guide to Winning Him Over
(This blurb was revised on October 7, 2023.)
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An upcoming eunuch story from the same author: After the Eunuch Governor Offers Himself. Add it to your reading list! Here's the blurb:
Lan Ting transmigrated into a book, a eunuch romance titled The Director Is My Husband, as a minor cannon-fodder concubine.
The good news: The love and hate between the male and female leads have nothing to do with her.
The bad news: Life in the harem is full of peril, and one wrong step could cost her head!
Lan Ting wanted to cry, but soon she couldn't cry anymore.
Could someone explain why everyone around her spoke in such short, abrupt sentences? And what was with the solid text appearing along with their words?
What was that flickering vertical line that looked just like a cursor?
Lan Ting tried to touch the line, and a huge nine-key keyboard appeared before her. The cursor sat at the end of a ridiculous line of narration:
[The Eunuch Governor of the Directorate of Ceremonial carefully dismissed the servants, then slowly bent down, seized Lan Ting's chin, and poured lethal poison into her mouth|]
Her chin was about to be dislocated. Lan Ting instantly struggled to breathe, her face flushing red. In a panic, she pressed a key and realized she could only edit the original sentence, and only by changing one character.
There was no escaping this fatal ending!
At the last possible moment, she reached out, deleted the character meaning “bend,” and replaced it with the character meaning “offer.”
The revised plot took effect, and the poison vial clattered to the ground.
Still shaken, Lan Ting looked up and saw that the ruthless Eunuch Governor was now red-eyed and gritting his teeth as he slowly, piece by piece, began removing his clothes.
His nose was red, his eyes brimming with tears. He looked as though he'd suffered the greatest injustice imaginable.
Wait!
Lan Ting swallowed with difficulty, suddenly realizing she had a rather fatal question.
How could a man with no manhood possibly “offer himself”?
[Reader's Guide]
1. I'm back with another eunuch story! *rubs hands together*
2. The pure-love warrior is still choosing a one-on-one romance with both leads chaste and a happy ending.
3. Naturally evil Eunuch Governor of the Directorate of Ceremonial x delicate, soft-bodied beauty with bewitching looks, cursor in hand, newly promoted concubine Lan Ting.
4. A real eunuch, severed at the root, with no chance of ever being functional again. (Important!)
P.S. Working hard on the manuscript!
Theme: Nothing is impossible if you're willing to strive for it
The next book opens with the text of "Puppet Seal": Tai Sui brings disaster to the world and evildoers run rampant. The eldest son of the Gu family, Gu Lianzhou, suffered from evil spirits and was bedridden, unable to be cured by medicine or stone. Just when everyone in the Gu family was desperate, Young Master Gu picked up a ragged man from somewhere, threw it in front of the hospital bed, raised his chin lightly and said, "If the patient is cured, I promise you a hundred taels of silver." Song Qiling, who was used to the world but was short of money, his eyes lit up when he heard this. He shook his tattered sleeves and made a show of going to pick up Gu Lianzhou. Everyone was horrified, and they all thought that Young Master Gu loved his brother so much that he finally went crazy and allowed people of unknown origin to mess around. Unexpectedly, the man lifted up his sleeves and revealed a golden seal on his forearm. Anyone present who is not blind can recognize that this is the mark of a disciple of Tianji Sect's righteous way. Unexpectedly, the person in front of me who was full of philistine spirit was actually a disciple of Tianji Sect. The Tianshui family is headed by the Gu family, and Gu Lianzhou is a noble man who grew up in a golden pond. Once he got rid of the illness and was snatched back from the evil spirit by the man named Song, the young man changed his temper. ——Very clingy, and only Song Qiling. But this person has a problem. The more he likes someone, the more he talks, which is not very pleasant. Commonly known as bad mouth. Song Qiling was so annoyed that he uttered evil words: "Although Mr. Gu has a good body, his words really make people feel psychologically uncomfortable. I suggested that Mr. Gu go to the pharmacy to get some lotus leaf tea to remove the greasy smell, and walk slowly without sending him away." But Gu Lianzhou didn't take it seriously. "He complimented me on how well I was born, and he clearly loves me very much." He felt that his narcissistic and foul-mouthed self was a perfect match for Song Qiling, who was smooth-tongued. [Instructions for consumption] 1. A woman disguises herself as a man and does not hesitate to mix things up × the sparkling young master 2. It contains a lot of ghost hunting plots, which is slightly scary. 3. The background is empty and private. 4. The male protagonist's x-orientation is normal, and being clingy belongs to the law of attraction.
Oh my God, why did Lu Sheng suddenly become so good?
I'm already embarrassed to ask for leave (scratches my head) It's really stuck and I won't be able to update it for a while. The word count of the list has not been completed yet, so the minimum update will be 5,000 words tomorrow. There is also a big plot that is coming to the end. You can watch it to get fatter (bow) (flee in shame)
It makes me feel more distressed to chase after it every day, I don't want to keep it and think about watching it every day T_T
After reading it, leave a footprint
It's a side story that's still unfinished, it would be nice if there was an ending
What?!?! It's over so soon
Squatting welfare extra, it should feel very astringent hehe (fly rubs his hands)
There is no more story about Sister Xian 😭
Not bad, good, slow flow, very heart-warming story. For some reason, when I was reading the book, many shocking scenes came to my mind.