After the Mad Eunuch Took an Interest in Me

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Chu Ning died in a car accident on her way home from work. As soon as she regained consciousness, she heard someone nearby wail, "We send the Empress Dowager off to the afterlife!"

Chu Ning slowly opened her eyes and saw the people beside her panic and scramble away.

The Empress isn't dead? The Empress isn't dead!

She soon figured out what was going on. Yes, she had transmigrated, into the body of the Empress Dowager of the Great Li Dynasty.

Her husband had just died, her young son had become emperor, and only a few days into being Empress Dowager, she'd died by throwing herself against a wall for love... Things weren't looking good. On top of that, the impossibly handsome eunuch by her side seemed to have a real grudge against her.

Zhangyi, the Director of the Directorate of Ceremonial, was the late emperor's most favored eunuch. He wielded immense power, was ruthless in his methods, and was feared and respected by everyone in the palace.

To Chu Ning, Zhangyi was a madman who could kill with a smile.

She asked for nothing more than to stay alive. When Zhangyi looked at her ominously over a memorial, she gave him a fawning smile. "I'll do whatever you say, Eunuch."

Later, when his long fingers rubbed her calf without the slightest restraint, Chu Ning realized something was wrong. Everything was wrong! Had she become this eunuch's bedmate?

Zhangyi gazed at her with an inscrutable smile. "Didn't Your Majesty say you'd do whatever I told you?"

What else could she do? She'd just have to do whatever the eunuch said!

*

Zhangyi was born into lowly circumstances and climbed step by step to a position no one else could reach. He loathed Chu Ning, and when he finally drove her to her death, it was as easy as crushing an ant.

Yet she hadn't died. After she woke, her temperament changed completely. She became gentle, obedient, sensible, and good at reading the room.

He thought she must have come up with a new scheme to deceive him and save her own life.

Still, with the Empress acting so sweetly, it seemed she no longer had any reason to die.

Until, later on, it seemed his Empress had fallen for someone else and had begun to despise him for being a eunuch.

Zhangyi watched Chu Ning laughing and teasing with another man. That night, he forced his way into her bed curtains.

His eyes were dark as he said, "Your Majesty, whatever he has, I have too."

Chu Ning tried to hide, but Zhangyi seized her hand. He licked her palm and coaxed her. "Good Empress, sweet Empress, feel for yourself."

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When her older sister fled on her wedding day, Li Ruozhao was forced to marry her brother-in-law, Shen Jianyuan.

Shen Jianyuan was accomplished at a young age, as graceful as an orchid and as elegant as a jade tree. Apart from his naturally cold demeanor, he excelled in every way.

The Marquis's household was prestigious, and Li Ruozhao felt guilty about taking her sister's place. After the wedding, she was extremely cautious. Knowing her husband liked peace and quiet, she reined in her own personality. Her in-laws didn't like her, so she did her best to please them.

She tacitly hoped to keep the marriage intact. But after only a year of marriage, her mother-in-law said Shen Jianyuan should take another wife of equal rank.

Li Ruozhao had endured for a whole year. Today, at last, she felt she couldn't go on like this.

She was done. She wouldn't live with him anymore!

When Shen Jianyuan said he was going to take another wife, she calmly agreed, then left a divorce agreement and packed her things before running away from home.

*

The marriage between Shen Jianyuan and the Li family had been arranged by their elders. He simply hadn't expected that, though the original agreement was for the Li family's eldest daughter, the one who ultimately married him would be Li Ruozhao.

He had seen her at the Li household before.

He remembered her as lively, playful, and full of energy. He hadn't expected her to change so much after marriage. Shen Jianyuan wasn't particularly bothered by the change in his young wife. Since she was docile and obedient, he thought they might as well let this marriage, brought about by a twist of fate, run its course.

Then one day, he returned home as usual and found his wife missing. On the table lay a divorce agreement.

Shen Jianyuan hurried to find his runaway wife. At that moment, she was pouring out her feelings to her childhood sweetheart through tears.

"Ah Heng, take me away. I don't want to live with him anymore. I'll go wherever you take me from now on!"

Shen Jianyuan remembered that before marrying him, his wife had loved someone else.

His wife was crying in another man's arms.

And he hadn't seen this spoiled, carefree side of her since they married...

The aloof young nobleman, who had always thought himself invincible, clenched his knuckles. For the first time, he understood that his wife had never loved him.

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