Taming the Brooding Eunuch of Nine Thousand Years

Shen Qinghe transmigrated into a book. The good news: the new emperor was young, and as his adoptive mother, her original self was the legitimate Empress Dowager, ruling from behind the curtain. The bad news: she'd transmigrated into a power-fantasy cultivation novel, and her original self was nothing but a cannon-fodder character who didn't survive past the middle of the story.

The Emperor was young, the protagonist was insincere, and the villain was watching like a hawk.

Shen Qinghe looked at her teary-eyed adopted son, the Emperor, then touched the cold, hard jade seal. A pained expression slowly came over her face. How could she possibly turn down power that had been handed to her?

She gritted her teeth. "Let's do this!"

The protagonist wanted to claim the throne and rule the world. She was determined to ruin his imperial dream.

The villain was tyrannical, bloodthirsty, and merciless. She was determined to make him bow his head and serve as her attack dog.

Everything went according to plan, except that halfway through, Shen Qinghe realized that redeeming a wild beast worked far better than punishing it.

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Yan Zhao was a villain destined to be trampled underfoot. Betrayal and bloodshed were his fate. He held power in his hands, but his physical disability kept him from enjoying it, and he was destined to hand it over to the heaven-blessed favorite.

At first, Yan Zhao hated everyone, including the woman who was ambitious and full of schemes.

Later, he racked his brains to test her. To prove he was the only one for her, the all-powerful Ninth Thousand-Year-Old Eunuch willingly lowered his head in front of the court officials and put on the shackles himself.

"Your Highness, I'll do better than anyone else. Please don't abandon me."

A scheming, ambitious Empress Dowager who chases power and profit x a gloomy, beautiful villainous eunuch with a tendency toward self-destruction.

Tips: Blurb written August 13, 2024, to be revised.

Happy ending, girl-boss.

Theme: Sail against the current or fall behind.