In her previous life, Yun Zhao married the eunuch who held the seal of the Inner Servants Office to save her whole family, becoming a laughingstock throughout the capital.
She endured humiliation, thinking she could keep her father safe. In the end, her own relatives treated her as a disposable pawn. She died in the cold palace in the twelfth month, with a bowl of poison. Only as she lay dying did she learn that even the eunuch had stood apart, watching coldly as she struggled.
When she opened her eyes again, she was back before her wedding.
In this life, she would be no one’s pawn and would die for no one. She would avenge her birth mother and make her treacherous relatives pay. She would live for herself, and live freely.
But in this life, everything was different.
That cold-hearted Eunuch Yan would shield her from blades and yield to her, losing to her again and again. Gradually, she also discovered that this “rootless eunuch” whom everyone cursed had an Adam’s apple, and a dragon’s shadow concealed behind him.
For twenty years, he endured humiliation, rising step by step from a fake eunuch in the dust to the rightful ruler on the imperial throne.
“You belong to me. You’ll never leave in this lifetime.”
Later, he ascended the throne as emperor, yet personally let her go, giving her both his kingdom and her freedom.
Only then did Yun Zhao understand: she had not married a eunuch at all, but a true dragon who had lain hidden for half his life.