The Terrifying Eunuch

Su Yuanying was sold into the palace at the age of ten and sent to serve in the Cold Palace.

Fortunately, she was born a little dim-witted. She spent every day being silly and never thought life was hard. A few sweet treats each day made her happier than anything.

Until one day, she muttered something unkind about one of the powerful eunuchs in the palace.

And he happened to overhear her as he passed by.

The eunuch cast her a cold, sinister glance. Su Yuanying was so frightened that the food in her hand fell to the ground. She stood frozen for a long moment, then burst into tears.

With tear-blurred eyes, she begged, "Please... please don't kill me."

Meng Kouyu was hailed as the most unprecedented and unparalleled treacherous eunuch in the history of the Dayao dynasty.

He was a slanderous, power-hungry tyrant who treated human lives like weeds, slaughtering the innocent. His crimes were too numerous to fit in the history books.

He was vicious at heart, clean-shaven, and had the pretty face of a delicate young man.

After the previous powerful eunuch died, he rightfully became the one and only grandee of the palace.

He held the imperial court and the inner palace in the palm of his hand, standing alone at the very top. No one in the realm dared defy him.

Yet one day, he met a timid maid who dared to gossip about him right to his face.

He glanced at her. She was as stupid as they came.

Somehow, he couldn't bring himself to kill her.

Later, Su Yuanying was framed and was about to be thrown in prison and beheaded.

Panicking, she suddenly heard someone say that only the powerful man in the palace could save her.

So that night, she went to Meng Kouyu with a pile of sweet treats, sobbing as she begged him for help.

Meng Kouyu, who had always been cold-hearted, crushed a piece of pastry between his fingers. Its cloying sweetness filled the air as he bent close to her ear. "What could you possibly offer me in return?"

Su Yuanying opened her tear-swollen eyes, red and puffy as walnuts. Stiff all over, she sobbed, "I... I'll give you my monthly wages, Eunuch, and all my snacks too... I'll give you everything. Please show me mercy."

Meng Kouyu: ...

Naturally, he refused her.

The next time they met, Meng Kouyu was strolling leisurely amid a crowd of attendants.

He saw Su Yuanying surrounded by countless admirers, with eunuchs lining up to ask her to become their bonded partner.

And that silly maid was happily accepting all the snacks the young eunuchs gave her.

Her smile was sweet.

The face of the most powerful eunuch in the realm darkened in an instant. He gripped the trinket in his hand so tightly that it creaked.

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Some time later.

Meng, the grandee whose name terrified everyone and could silence a crying child, was kneeling and leaning over, washing a woman's feet with his own hands.

But Su Yuanying was being unreasonable, making one complaint after another in a timid little voice. "The water's too hot... I want a lotus-root ice bowl, and I want plum blossom cakes too."

After a long pause, a voice answered, "As you wish."

SC, HE

Reader's guide: The male lead is a real eunuch.

The female lead is very, very dim-witted and will never catch on.

Theme: Having the courage to face difficulties