A Secret Tryst on a Spring Night

Next up: I Castrated the Male Lead of an Explicit Novel. Currently revising, will be starting soon. Thank you for your support, sweethearts~

After transmigrating into a book as a side character in an explicit novel who had offended the male lead, Su Yao was plain unlucky.

The original owner relied on being the adopted daughter of a villainous eunuch to throw her weight around in the palace. Born with a bewitching body, she flirted with men left and right, but couldn't win the love of the male lead, a guard, so she castrated him herself.

The male lead had once been the crown prince. After being tortured and abused by the villain, he endured humiliation and returned to the palace to take revenge. His heart had long since become twisted, and he needed explicit content to vent his feelings. After seizing power, the first thing he did was imprison the original owner as his plaything and torment her day and night.

Now, in the first scene after transmigrating into the book, Su Yao was already holding the castration knife.

Chen Jin was bound on the ground, hatred deeply rooted in his eyes.

It looked like she was about to make an enemy of him. With someone this ruthless, the more she acted weak, the more thoroughly he'd devour her.

Su Yao maintained the original owner's persona and looked down at him. “If you don't want to be castrated, call me godmother.”

*

This time, Su Yao didn't castrate him. Instead, she secretly helped him get revenge.

But he was deeply vindictive. To her face, he called her “godmother” this and “godmother” that, yet secretly all he wanted was to take her life.

She couldn't just sit there and wait to die. The enemy of my enemy is my friend, so she used her charms to seduce the villainous eunuch and secured a chance to escape.

The day she ran away.

Su Yao wanted nothing more than to get as far away as possible, having long since cast Chen Jin from her mind. But not long after the carriage set off, it came to a sudden stop.

The smell of blood hit her, and all was silent. The horses didn't neigh, no one spoke, and even the insects had fallen quiet.

She gripped the edge of the curtain, her fingertips growing cold.

Someone lifted the carriage curtain from outside. That pale, sinister face came right up to hers.

He reached in and gripped her throat, as if playing with porcelain, or measuring where to begin.

“Didn't godmother say she'd stay with me forever?” His eyes were full of obsession, but his voice was as soft as a lover's whisper. “How can you leave me behind?”

*

Chen Jin had endured endless torture and was long past love or tenderness. He only pretended to be obsessed with women so he could deceive the villain, indulging himself night after night.

He'd never imagined he'd fall into a woman's hands.

This woman had nearly castrated him, treated him like a child, and despite knowing he was a “eunuch,” used that body of hers to tease him in every way imaginable.

Naturally, he hated her and wanted to kill her.

But at some point, he began to look forward to her coming.

When she didn't come, he grew restless, as if she'd stolen his soul. He hated her, yet couldn't stop thinking about her. He wanted to kill her, yet kept waiting for her.

This woman had teased him until he was nearly mad, only to abandon him.

Didn't she say she'd stay with him for her whole life? One day less, even one hour less, wasn't a whole lifetime!

Then he'd just have to drag her back, chain her by his side, and take what he wanted endlessly until her legs were so weak every day that she couldn't run away again.

The moonlight illuminated his eyes from up close, stirring their depths and setting dark currents surging.

He carried her out of the carriage and walked into the deeper darkness of the night.

From then on, Su Yao was exhausted and dazed every night.

Turns out this block of ice was scorching hot.

1.

After her parents were imprisoned, Bai Zhi was forced to become a courtesan in the capital, then dragged into the palace to bring good fortune to the emperor at the cost of her life.

On the day she entered the palace, everyone hoped she'd die.

She sneered. How could she let them get their way? She was determined to survive. As long as she could get revenge, she didn't care if she had to sacrifice her dignity.

On a snowy day, she, a palace consort, knelt of her own accord before the notorious Eunuch of Nine Thousand Years, who held the power of life and death in his hands.

As lowly as dust, she wept tears of blood. “Please show me tenderness. Bai Zhi is willing to be the Director's woman.”

Even though he was the very enemy who had sent her parents to prison.

2.

Bai Zhi preserved her life by currying favor with her enemy, Shen Yu, but her peerless beauty caught the emperor's attention, and he summoned her to his bed.

As the powerful Head Eunuch of the Directorate of Ceremonial, Shen Yu knew better than anyone how to humiliate someone.

A wicked smile curled his lips as he personally taught her, only so he could enjoy the sight of Bai Zhi's embarrassment.

Bai Zhi trembled with hatred, wanting only to repay him for every humiliation.

Her coquettish smile was the gentlest knife. One day, it would pierce his heart.

Shen Yu was losing his mind over her, and could only keep reminding himself:

The young lady who saved his life all those years ago was the bright moon he enshrined in his heart;

Bai Zhi, meanwhile, was nothing more than a desire wrapped around his heart.

3.

Shen Yu held power over the whole court and wielded ruthless methods. In his hands, human lives were no more than playthings, worthless as weeds.

He knew Bai Zhi needed him, and he knew she was timid and afraid to die, so he tormented her as he pleased.

But one day, Shen Yu discovered that Bai Zhi had only pretended to love him so she could use him to take revenge.

Knowing all the suffering Bai Zhi had endured, everyone said the Director would make her wish she were dead.

And Shen Yu did, indeed, make her wish she were dead.

Yet later, Shen Yu discovered that the woman he had humiliated was the very young lady he had thought about day and night, too afraid to profane...

This time, he panicked, but no matter how thoroughly he searched the entire palace, Bai Zhi was nowhere to be found.

All that remained was a letter from her: Never see you again in this life.

Reading guide:

1. Fictional setting and original worldbuilding. Don't overthink historical accuracy.

2. The male lead is a fake eunuch! A fake eunuch! A fake eunuch!

Theme: We find redemption through love