A Thousand-Year-Old Lord, Please Spare Me

She is the illegitimate daughter of a powerful minister. He is the chief eunuch of the Eastern Depot. A sham marriage: one rules the court, the other stirs up the imperial harem. Together, they can summon clouds with one turn of the hand and rain with the next. In private, she asks, “Why do you indulge me so much? Why won’t you let anyone say a single bad word about me?” “I simply won’t allow myself to have even the slightest stain on my reputation.”