A Eunuch's Three Springs

As a special envoy for the Space-Time Administration, Ye Nanxi frequently travels between different eras. On one transmigration, she returned to the Great Yan Dynasty three thousand years in the past, where she happened to meet a young eunuch named Feng Yu in the imperial palace. Feng Yu was only ten years old then, and on the verge of death. Moved by compassion, Ye Nanxi gave him a special medicine that saved his life. She returned several times over the years, and Feng Yu grew from a pitiful little boy into the powerful chief eunuch of the Directorate of Ceremonial Affairs. Their feelings for each other gradually changed as well. At last, one night, they lay together beneath warm red candles. Amid the layers of curtains, Feng Yu nestled against Ye Nanxi and murmured shyly, "I wish to grow old by your side, my wife." But fate had other plans. Not long after their wedding, the System forcibly summoned Ye Nanxi back. Three thousand years later, Ye Nanxi looked back on Feng Yu's history from the perspective of a person from the future. To her shock, she learned that the kind, upright A Yu she remembered had become a notorious eunuch, slaughtering loyal officials and monopolizing power, before dying by slow slicing. A flame blazed in Ye Nanxi's heart. She had corrected so many stretches of history. Surely she could change Feng Yu's fate, too. Ye Nanxi returned to Great Yan at all costs. When she opened her eyes, she had arrived ten years after her previous transmigration. The history books had told the truth. Feng Yu had changed completely over the past decade. The gentle, tender A Yu she remembered was gone. The man before her was vicious, cold, sensitive, and suspicious. Ye Nanxi had wanted to talk to him and persuade him to mend his ways. But before she could say a word, Feng Yu pinned her against the wall. His eyes reddened as he ground out, "People who take someone's love and then abandon them must pay the price!" - When they faced each other again ten years later, the look in Ye Nanxi's eyes pierced Feng Yu's heart. Ten years had passed, and he had clearly aged, while Ye Nanxi was still in the prime of her youth. Without his handsome looks, and with his body now impaired, he couldn't see a single thing about himself that might still attract her. At court yesterday, one of his political rivals had sparred with him. He didn't care about the other insults, but the words "a lonely old eunuch nobody wants" chilled him to the bone. Like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, he instantly bristled. [Reading Guide] 1. A brave and resourceful special envoy from the Space-Time Administration × a gentle, refined, devoted eunuch 2. The hero suffers; he is a real eunuch. Gender-bender, happy ending, male lead is chaste, female lead is not (she has an ex-boyfriend, but this is purely backstory and he does not appear). 3. The heroine comes from an interstellar setting, and the story involves future technology. Expect the sweet dream of a devoted husband and a house full of children (children conceived through technology). 4. Simply put, this is a story about a devoted husband waiting for his wife to return. The hero waits twenty-five years for the heroine, but the ending is very sweet, so don't feel too sorry for him. Coming soon: "Lanterns in the Dead of Night" [Powerful, valiant princess-general × peerlessly beautiful, delicate hostage prince from an enemy state] The Great Wei and Northern Liang have been at war for many years. After Northern Liang is defeated, it sends its prince, Helan Xuan, to Great Wei as a hostage. Helan Xuan is exceptionally beautiful, delicate and slender, even more lovely than a woman. In enemy territory, he is like a lamb among wolves. People from all sides bully and covet him, treating him like a plaything. He fights for his life, clinging to the last shreds of his dignity. But these dark, seemingly endless days continue. At last, with nowhere left to turn, Helan Xuan prepares to take his own life. The princess Xiao Sui appears like a goddess from the heavens, catches his hand, and firmly shields him behind her. Once, he wanted to live as a person and keep his dignity. Now, he doesn't care what happens, as long as he can stay by Xiao Sui's side. But Xiao Sui is always courteous and distant with him. He doesn't know why, until someone "enlightens" him. In that moment, all his hurt threatens to turn to pus and blood. Late at night, Helan Xuan gathers his courage and clutches Xiao Sui's sleeve. His voice is quiet and trembling. "Your Highness, believe me. I'm not tainted. I've always kept myself pure." On the battlefield, Xiao Sui is the fearsome General Pingliang. In the palace, she is the revered Princess Yihua. Everyone says her life is perfect, but they don't know that she once lost a beautiful dream she has never been able to forget. Back then, someone warned her that she mustn't get involved with a hostage prince from an enemy state. She wouldn't listen. They told her that people from another nation could never be trusted. She didn't believe them. So when Helan Xuan escaped back to Northern Liang and was enthroned as its new emperor, Xiao Sui's face burned as if she'd been slapped a dozen times. She finally realized that Helan Xuan's weakness and innocence had been nothing but a disguise. In truth, he was more calculating, deceitful, and cunning than anyone. She had to see Helan Xuan for what he really was: an enemy. Yet months later, this "enemy" personally visited Great Wei as an envoy and delivered a diplomatic letter, declaring his willingness to forge a marriage alliance with Great Wei and never take up arms against it again. When they faced each other again, Xiao Sui felt a tumult of conflicting emotions. Instinctively, she wanted to avoid him, but Helan Xuan caught her and took off his loose outer robe, revealing his round belly. Helan Xuan's eyes brimmed with tears, his face filled with sorrow. "Your Highness, I didn't lie to you. I really am pregnant." Xiao Sui was so shocked by this forbidden and sensual sight that she was speechless. #A dim lantern in the night, a solitary shadow; the moon knows the words in my heart# Theme: Never forget your original aspirations, and stay true to them