① Also known as From the Cold Palace to Empress. The story features a beautiful, virtuous, lovesick male nanny who talks himself into falling in love.
The heroine isn't lovesick. The story is plot-focused, with the heroine at its center, and follows her growth.
② The male lead really is a eunuch. If that's not for you, don't read.
Excerpt one
Feng Mingxiao quickened her pace. Wei Shuhe fell half a step behind, and she immediately turned and glared at him. "Stop dragging your feet. Are you even a man? Hurry up."
Wei Shuhe: "..."
Wasn't he neither man nor woman?
Wei Shuhe felt a little aggrieved.
Excerpt two
Wei Shuhe held a flower lantern and looked up. In the sea of people stood one person. She turned her head and smiled. "Eunuch of the Nine Thousand Years, where's my present?"
On an eastern spring night, a thousand trees bloomed with lanterns, and falling stars streaked through the sky.
The unserious blurb:
Everyone said that Ninth Highness Feng Mingxiao and Wei Shuhe, the head of the Western Depot, were sworn enemies, always at each other's throats. Every court session ended badly, with neither willing to let the other have their way. Everyone in the palace believed that if Ninth Highness were given a knife, it would surely be aimed at Wei Shuhe's head. The two of them would gladly send each other to hell.
Then someone passed by the Cold Palace and saw the usually arrogant, domineering, and ruthless Eunuch of the Nine Thousand Years pinned beneath a tree, being teased by someone. It was an astonishing sight! Who would dare do such a thing? Who could possibly be so bold? Then the person turned around. It was Ninth Highness!
Could this be what they meant by hating each other to the death at court, then acting like a loving couple behind closed doors?
The serious blurb:
Feng Mingxiao was a discarded pawn, ignored by everyone and forced to live cautiously.
The snow fell in the Cold Palace for sixteen years, and dead leaves piled up in the corners, before Feng Mingxiao finally got the chance to make the deal she'd been plotting for so long.
Though her heart was full of resentment, she still knelt before the Cold Palace and pledged her allegiance, her face eager as she said, "Your son is willing to be Your Majesty's blade and axe, and ease Your Majesty's burdens."
Everyone waited for a good laugh.
When she used her power to climb a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood and claim the throne, wearing the imperial robes, the court panicked! The sky was falling. A discarded daughter had become emperor, openly defying convention.
Was Feng Mingxiao afraid?
She changed the system, appointed women officials, and brought peace to the realm. Who could deny she was a wise ruler? As long as the seas were calm, the land was peaceful, and the people lived in comfort, who could deny her achievements or that she would be remembered for generations?
The people were delighted. The court officials kept quiet, until they saw the man in the harem sitting securely on the phoenix throne. At last, the officials were satisfied. They took a closer look to see which nobleman's son he was. Then the sky fell! Wasn't this the terrifying head of the Western Depot, Wei Shuhe? That wasn't even the main issue. The main issue was that he was a eunuch, the completely castrated kind.
The officials erupted! They all submitted petitions at once. This is unacceptable, Your Majesty!
Feng Mingxiao pinched Wei Shuhe's earlobe, looking utterly unserious. "Well?"
His ears turned red, and wherever his shimmering gaze fell, he saw only her.
A sharp-witted, profit-seeking executioner VS a gorgeous male nanny (a real eunuch)
Theme: I decide my own fate
