Better to Be a Eunuch's Wife

[Blurb]

The hand clutching incense ash not only pressed against the wound on Mu Danqing's forehead, but also shoved her into a simple bridal sedan. That's when she realized she had transmigrated to ancient times and switched lives with a girl named A Qing. She was about to be sent to a neighboring village to marry a butcher.

She ran away, then became a slave, and after that, a slave among slaves: a palace maid.

If you think she'll meet a prince in the palace and begin a passionate romance with him, or suddenly catch the emperor's eye and become his favorite consort, you're completely wrong. Danqing felt nothing in the palace but an endless cold that seeped into her very bones.

Warming up was easy enough. Along with practicing swordsmanship and martial arts, all it took was starting a "war."

Li Hui once asked her, "Aren't you afraid?"

Mu Danqing replied, "No. More than death, I'm afraid of having my dignity as a person trampled on!"

Li Hui first noticed Mu Danqing because of her face. He thought she was A Qing, a girl from his hometown, and secretly looked after her out of fellow villagerly kindness, though he never dared show himself to her.

Later, of course, he learned that she wasn't A Qing. She was the only person in the palace, amid its many walls, who treated him kindly and made him feel alive. Being at her side was the home he longed for most. It was a shame he was a eunuch.

A eunuch worth less than a dog.

That day, she enraged the emperor by declaring, "I'd rather be a eunuch's wife than a member of the imperial family." When the emperor demanded to know which eunuch would dare marry her, he risked his life and stepped forward, betting everything on one thing:

In life, he could meet her and stay by her side, even if only for one moment.

In death, he could make her feel guilty, even if his name left a mark in her heart for only an instant.

# "Please tell those people: it's not that whoever gets Mu Danqing gets the world. Mu Danqing is going to claim the world!"

# "So what if I'm a eunuch? I'm the only one by her side!"

Screenshot updated 2025.1.16

Note: 1. Happy ending, one-on-one pairing.

2. Fictional setting. Please don't nitpick historical details.

3. The male lead is a real eunuch, and the female lead transmigrated from another world.

4. Focuses on the heroine's growth. The male lead has few scenes early on.

Theme: Enjoy the gifts fate gives you, and endure the blows it deals as well.