Chief Eunuch, Stop Pretending!

The first thing Pei Ningying did after being reborn was cling to the leg of the eunuch-in-training beside the Chief Eunuch of the Directorate of Ceremonial, the man who would one day become Chief Eunuch himself.

Pei Ningying: "Please take pity on me, Eunuch. Just give me enough to eat."

Pei Ningying was the youngest daughter of a family where her father never cared for her and her mother never loved her. Yet she had a radiant, fragrant beauty. She entered the palace as a consort at sixteen, but before she could enjoy a comfortable life, she was suddenly reduced to a low-ranking consort in the Cold Palace, so insignificant that even the dogs ignored her.

Pei Ningying couldn't even afford food. Not long after entering the palace, she starved to death.

Pei Ningying: I'm just a poor soul who loves reading romance stories. What did I do wrong?

When she opened her eyes again, she had actually been reborn. Looking at the eunuch-in-training beside the Chief Eunuch of the Directorate of Ceremonial, she steeled herself and begged him to take pity on her.

Why not beg the Chief Eunuch instead? She wouldn't dare! All she wanted was a full meal. Whether he was a senior or junior eunuch, they were all the same to her!

But little by little, she began to realize that there was something suspicious about this eunuch-in-training's identity.

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One day, while carrying out his duties, Qiu Linying, Chief Eunuch of the Directorate of Ceremonial, had no choice but to disguise himself as an ordinary eunuch-in-training. He never expected to be pursued by a young mistress from the Cold Palace.

At first, he didn't want to get involved with her. But she was always smiling at him, looking after him, bringing him medicine, and soothing his troubled mind. Gradually, he came to see how wonderful she was, but his secret identity was exposed in the process.

She still treated him as she always had, but now she had grown so distant that he found himself unused to life without her constant chatter.

But Qiu Linying had always been selfish and unscrupulous, so he still chose to do whatever it took to make her his.

If he couldn't get what he wanted, then he would steal it or take it by force.

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People said that the current young Empress Dowager and the child emperor were both under the control of that powerful eunuch, suffering endless torment.

But no one knew that beneath the lamplight, he had once sworn to raise her up as empress and make her Empress Dowager, to bow before her and serve her, to depose officials and overthrow the old order for her, even if it meant being cut to pieces or damned for all eternity.

In the night, with his back turned to the world, he begged her again and again to take pity on him.

[Reading Guide]

1. A real eunuch, the nasty, sharp-tongued kind. A hopeless romantic who is extremely prone to imagining that the other person is in love with him.

2. I make the rules in this fictional setting! Don't take it seriously. Just a light, sweet romance.

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[Main story completed: 2024.9.4]

[Full novel completed: 2024.9.30]

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