I Married a Eunuch - Chapter 1

Chapter 1

I married a eunuch.

As I was about to leave, Father saw me off with tears in his eyes. “Nannan, you’ve been wronged. Once we get through this period, Daddy will come bring you home.”

My eldest brother split a locust tree in the courtyard in half with his bare hands. “Little Sister, don’t be afraid of that eunuch. He won’t dare touch you for now. Once I return victorious, I’ll slaughter his whole family and bring you back to our estate.”

My second brother handed me a dagger. “Little Sister, if he dares bully you, use this dagger to cut off his flesh.”

I took the dagger and climbed into the bridal sedan.

Only after I arrived at Lord Qiansui’s Mansion did I learn that he had already left the capital on imperial orders and wasn’t at the mansion at all.

That suited me perfectly.

But then, by accident, I discovered an earth-shattering secret.

Lord Qiansui was having an affair with the Empress of the Central Palace, and the two of them were secretly plotting a rebellion.

Apparently, Lord Qiansui and the Empress of the Central Palace had grown up together. They had been childhood sweethearts, a pair of lovers meant for each other. But because the girl was too beautiful, the Old Emperor took a fancy to her and seized her into the palace.

With his childhood sweetheart gone, the young man chased her all the way into the palace-and became a eunuch.

Ten years later, that graceful young man had become Lord Qiansui, a man whose power shook the imperial court. His childhood sweetheart, meanwhile, had risen all the way to the position of Empress. The two of them controlled the palace from the shadows, and rebellion was imminent.

I sighed for a long while over this tragic, lingering love story.

Then, after I was done sighing, I thought-wait a second.

The key problem was that I was the wife forcibly married into the household by that childhood sweetheart, the current Lord Qiansui.

If his rebellion succeeded, he would fly away with his Little Empress and live happily ever after. Wouldn’t I become a thorn in their eyes, a splinter in their flesh?

And if it failed, as a member of Lord Qiansui’s family, I would still be dragged down with him and have my entire clan exterminated.

Death on the left. Death on the right.

I did not want to die yet.

While Lord Qiansui was away, I quietly slipped back to the General’s Mansion.

After seeing me off to my wedding, my eldest and second brothers had gone to the battlefield. Only Father remained to keep watch over the General’s Mansion.

Looking at the white streaks at his temples, I truly didn’t have the courage to tell him this earth-shattering secret.

I only said I missed him and had come back for a visit.

Father laughed at me for running home right after getting married, saying I wasn’t afraid of being made a joke of. But as soon as he turned around, he had the kitchens make many of my favorite pastries, and before I left, he even packed me a large bundle to take with me.

On the way back to Lord Qiansui’s Mansion, it suddenly began to rain. One of the sedan bearers carrying me slipped and fell, throwing me straight out of the sedan. My forehead struck the rain-slick bluestone pavement.

That blow knocked me fully awake.

So it turned out I had transmigrated into a book!

Dear heaven!

The male and female leads in the book were, naturally, Lord Qiansui and the Little Empress, while I was the legendary vicious supporting female character.

In the book, the first half of Lord Qiansui and the Empress’s story was exactly the same as what I had heard. The deadly part was the second half.

After Lord Qiansui married me, I became infatuated with his looks. I didn’t even mind that he was a eunuch and devoted myself wholeheartedly to trying to live a dramatic, chaotic married life with him.

But Lord Qiansui had his own white moonlight. His whole heart was set on rebellion, all so he could be together with the woman he loved.

Resentful, I spent my days tripping up the male and female leads, performing the role of vicious supporting female character to absolute perfection.

Relying on her heroine’s halo, the Empress escaped death again and again. Lord Qiansui endured me over and over, until on the very day his rebellion succeeded, he finally lost all patience and had me torn apart by five horses in the street.

Torn apart by five horses!!!

That was my ending in that book!

Instinctively, I touched my arms, legs, and head. Thank goodness. They were still attached.

Counting the days, Lord Qiansui would rebel in two months.

After returning to Lord Qiansui’s Mansion, I immediately began packing. I took all my possessions and slipped away under cover of night. Before I left, I even remembered to pocket two candlesticks made of pure gold from the mansion.

I fled the capital and headed south, all the way to a picturesque little town in Jiangnan, where I found an inn to stay in.

Then I went to a pawnshop and pawned those two pure-gold candlesticks. As expected of things from Lord Qiansui’s Mansion-they were worth a fortune. Looking at the little mountain of silver before me, I regretted not taking more.

Was there anyone unluckier than me?

Other people transmigrated and met handsome men, slapped down scheming women, and seized both career and romance. Meanwhile, I married a eunuch. The eunuch didn’t even like me. He liked the Empress of the Central Palace, and the two of them were planning to rebel, forcing me to leave my home and wander in exile…

I turned grief and outrage into appetite and went out that night to eat and drink to my heart’s content.

In the end, I enjoyed myself too much and upset my stomach. In the middle of the night, after making several trips to the latrine, I ran straight into Lord Qiansui, who was preparing to return to the capital.