As a child, Yun Tang was struck by lightning and gained the ability to read minds. To help her older sister, Consort Shu Yun Wei, escape the palace, Yun Tang disguises herself as a eunuch and risks sneaking into the palace. The new emperor is cruel and unpredictable, but luckily Yun Tang has a golden finger, and gradually wins the emperor's favor.
One dry winter day, a fire breaks out in the palace, and Consort Shu is burned to a charred corpse.
The new emperor rushes over.
Everyone kneels on the ground, trembling with fear. Yun Tang, Consort Shu's close attendant, weeps until she nearly faints.
The new emperor walks straight up to Yun Tang. She tries to bow, but he grabs her by the nape of the neck.
The new emperor's inner voice: "Surprise! Consort Shu is gone. From now on, it'll just be the two of us in the palace!"
Yun Tang is horrified and can barely speak. "This servant deserves ten thousand deaths."
The new emperor says coldly, "Since you know you deserve ten thousand deaths, go to the Hall of Mental Cultivation at once and atone before me every day!"
Yun Tang: "?!!"
The palace attendants think the little eunuch used to be so smug, and now that his patron is gone, he's ended up before the new emperor. Surely he'll meet a miserable end.
And they're right: by day, the little eunuch keeps his head bowed at the new emperor's side; at night, he's confined to the emperor's chambers, his stifled sobs carrying on until late every night!
The new emperor grows increasingly refreshed, and his temper gradually improves. The ministers begin to notice something strange.
Oh no, the country is doomed!
The new emperor isn't just bloodthirsty, a fratricidal madman who deposed the empress. He's also a pervert, fallen for a eunuch!
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Xie Xun thought he was incapable of love, until he found himself distracted and unable to sleep over a eunuch.
When he decides to spend his life with him, Xie Xun discovers that he's a woman.
Xie Xun doesn't change his mind. He plans to make her empress and give her a lifetime of favor, loving her until they grow old together.
But on the eve of their wedding, the little eunuch runs away!
No one will ever know that his empress is charming and lovely, with breathtaking beauty.
The world only laughs at the emperor for falling in love with a eunuch.
Xie Xun is consumed by hatred. She never loved him at all. She's a complete and utter liar!
He'll search heaven and earth for her. Even if she's been ground to dust, he'll dig her out.
When he finds her, she's wearing a red bridal veil and worshipping the heavens with someone else.
With a single stroke of his sword, Xie Xun cuts the red wedding sash in two. The bride's hair comes loose, and the sword's tip presses against the space between her brows.
She's deathly pale. She says nothing, but still shields her groom with her body, her eyes like shards of ice.
Only when he sees her icy gaze does Xie Xun understand: his boundless hatred is merely the pain of wanting something he cannot have, piled up without end.
He clearly remembers how her eyes once shone like stars, how she pleaded with him, charming and gentle:
"Your Majesty has to lift my red veil, you know."
Proud and innocent little ray of sunshine * gloomy, ruthless madman
Theme: Love needs communication and a response.
