A cool beauty with no worldly desires, a carefree, straight-laced man, and a dark, pitiful, scheming ghost.
1
On the day of her divorce, Li Xizhu transmigrates into a book along with her scumbag ex-husband.
The good news: Li Xizhu knows this old-fashioned romance novel by heart, and what goes around comes around. Her free-spirited scumbag ex-husband has transmigrated into the body of a eunuch.
The bad news: Even in the book, her scumbag ex-husband is the powerful Chief Eunuch, a bona fide man of authority, while she is just a lowly maid in the Cold Palace, powerless and at risk of losing her life at any moment.
Li Xizhu wants to survive, but her lowly status makes every step a struggle.
Fortunately, her ex-husband has troubles of his own and needs her help.
In this unfamiliar world, unable to trust anyone else, the two decide to put their grudges aside and work together to survive within the palace walls, where people are devoured alive.
2
A virtuous wife who follows the Three Obediences and Four Virtues suddenly wants a divorce? Chen Jinyu cannot figure out what went wrong.
But it does not matter. He is broad-minded and open-hearted, respects his wife's choice, and signs the divorce papers without hesitation.
Once they transmigrate into a book, Chen Jinyu is the first to accept their situation and adjust his attitude. He urges his wife to embrace her new life. After all, with a fresh start, they should try something new. Otherwise, what was the point of coming here?
His wife watches him with a meaningful look, then readily agrees.
At first, Chen Jinyu is as happy as he expected to be, until a young man appears by his wife's side. He is fresh-faced, full of energy and brimming with vitality... This is a good thing.
But later, in Chen Jinyu's eyes, that young man becomes a sinister, bloodsucking leech, using the vulgar tricks that men know all too well to manipulate his wife. He shamelessly covets everything wonderful about her, and the more he takes, the more outrageous he becomes...
Chen Jinyu grows restless and uneasy, until he can no longer contain his fury and wants nothing more than to kill that reckless bastard.
Does he think he can bully Chen Jinyu because he has no official standing now, and humiliate him because he is powerless?
Chen Jinyu resolves to reassert his authority as a husband and win his wife back.
But they are supposed to be the two people closest to each other in this world. Why would his wife rather show compassion to an outsider than forgive him for being a little carefree?
In the end, all he can do is beg her not to marry someone else.
3
Orphaned young, Qi Lingze has received little kindness in this world. After clawing his way out of a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, the only thing he longs for is Li Xizhu's gaze.
Cast into the dust, he has nothing to give her but his own even more useless, sincere heart, a small token of gratitude.
But perhaps Li Xizhu does not need it at all.
He secretly watches her whispering with the Chief Eunuch, consumed by jealousy over the inexplicable, absolute trust between them. He hates being the outsider who cannot break into their bond. He hates it.
Li Xizhu's trust, dependence, playful charm, and anger, all the unusual feelings she shares with Chen Jinyu: Qi Lingze wants every one of them. All her emotions should belong to him alone.
Coveting an affection that is not his, Qi Lingze is driven mad with jealousy.
Money, status, power: if he must climb to the top and reclaim everything that belongs to him before he can ask for her love, then he will fight and claw for it, battling Chen Jinyu to the bitter end.
No matter how hard it is, he will take her for himself. There will be no backing down until one of them is dead.
Reading guide:
1. Set in a fictional world. Please do not nitpick historical details.
2. Happy ending, one-on-one romance, the female lead has no sexual experience while the male lead does.
3. Constant twists, for fans of love-triangle drama. The ex-husband will suffer through a long, painful pursuit to win his wife back.
4. The blurb has been screenshotted. Written on May 14, 2025.
Theme: In love that is utterly sincere and pure, there is no room for the slightest flaw
