I married an exasperating eunuch Chapter 1

TLNote: After Living up to you, I wanted a more light-hearted book. Usually, books about time-travel are about time-traveling into a beautiful woman with a good background. The main male character will always be the (future) emperor or it would be at least a prince/king. There hasn’t been one about a eunuch. In fact, I have never wondered about how eunuch lived in the past. This story is about an ordinary girl who fell in love with the eunuch. The eunuch is a cunning man who is coward at heart. He had lived his whole life between schemes of people and was baffled when he encountered the straight forward Chen Hui. I have to admit that even I fell in love with the eunuch. He loves the female lead so much that he was even willing to put on a green hat (being cheated on) for her. But the cheating was a misunderstanding. He made me feel heartache for him because of the lengths he would go to fulfill the wishes of the female lead and because of his insecurities. What I also like about this book is that the female lead isn’t a Mary Sue and also not so powerful that you would doubt her abilities. She is just an ordinary girl who couldn’t help but fall in love with this imperfect man. 

Chapter 1 Exasperating eunuch

What Chen Hui’s five senses sensed first was the soft touch under her body. Then, the dull pain on her forehead surged like a tide. She couldn’t help but exclaim in pain and subconsciously wanted to raise her hand to touch her forehead. However, she found out that her body was very heavy and she couldn’t move for a while.

What is the…matter with me?

She finally opened her eyes after much struggling. Her blurred vision gradually became clear and her stiff limbs seemed to regain their strength. She knew that she was on a bed and slowly moved to sit up.

Then, she looked around blankly. She was truly unable to recover her consciousness.

She was in a traditional room. Aside from the bed she lay on, there was a quaint wardrobe, a short table and a tea set with flower pattern on the table.

Which ancient town’s antique inn was this? Or is this the interior made specifically for a film or television series? Where they filming? That was not right. She wasn’t an actress, what did filming had to do with her?

Chen Hui moved again. she touched her forehead. Suddenly, a sharp pain spread from the place she touched to her limbs. She hissed from pain and her hand shook reflexively and she retrieved it.

What was wrong with her head? Had she been beaten by someone?

Perhaps, it was because she had just woken up or perhaps it was because she had been injured, Chen Hui only felt that her head was a mess now and she couldn’t even think clear. Three questions only filled her head: Who am I? Where did I come from? Where should I go?

Just when Chen Hui blankly leaned on the frame of the bed,  someone walked in and humphed coldly when he saw the gauze on her forehead.

Chen Hui looked up. She saw a slender man about 1.75m standing at the door. She could only estimate. To her slight surprise, this person had facial hair and his face seemed to be coated with a thick layer of white foundation. It was not the white of an ordinary person. At this moment, that man’s slender eyes narrowed and looked ill-intended at her.

Chen Hui thought, is this really filming a drama? Or where they filming a Peking opera?

She felt that she should ask the other party what was going on and whether she should cooperate with him. However, it seemed that she lost her ability to talk. She opened her mouth and couldn’t utter a word.

At this moment, the man sneered and with a sharp and mean voice he said, “Since Lady Chen despises and shuns lowly eunuchs such as myself, I won’t force myself upon you. But, if you’re hoping for me to release and return you back to your family, then my only advice is for you to give up all such hopes! You will never be able to leave my household for the rest of your life, so you have little choice but to stay here till you die!”

He swept coldly once over Chen Hui, flung his sleeve and left.

Chen Hui, “…”

She slowly lay back on the bed and closed her eyes.

She understood. She was just dreaming! She used to dream like this before and would appear to be possessed. She wouldn’t be able to move or speak just like her current situation. Therefore, she didn’t have to be afraid. She would go back after she slept and wake up.

However, before Chen Hui was able to fell asleep again, a burst of footsteps came in unscrupulously.

Chen Hui had to open her eyes again. The person who came was no longer the man who was obviously too old to imitate the sissy way of a woman’s speech and who put on makeup. Instead, it was a girl about seventeen to eighteen years old.

When Ziyu saw Chen Hui’s half dead appearance, she was filled with anger and said flustered and exasperated, “Do you know what you did?”

Chen Hui pondered for a moment and honestly said, “I don’t know. Do you want to tell me?”

The heaven could be a witness, Chen Hui asked that question very sincerely, but Ziyu didn’t have such compassion. She thought that Chen Hui deliberately said that to let her choke on her words. She immediately stomped angrily and said, “Forget it if you committed suicide, but you actually stayed alive. Why don’t you say that you accidentally hit the pillar? You offended master. I will see how you will continue to live in the future!”

Her pretty little face was flushed with anger. She looked at Chen Hui with disdain and unreconciliation, “Truly a mud that doesn’t hold the wall!”

• A mud that doesn’t hold the wall: hopeless

Originally, Ziyu was a helper in the kitchen, but she was unwilling to live her days so tedious and tiredly. So, she always wanted to climb up. However, her master was someone without a root. She heard that this incomplete man was very tormenting in bed. That was truly asking for a suffering. She wasn’t happy to do so. So, she never thought about climbing his bed and only thought to get into the good favor of the only lady in the residence, Lady Jiang. However, that Lady Jiang was very aloof and disdained her fawning. She didn’t know what that Lady Jiang had to be able to be so haughty. Humph, she could also redeem her slave contract and marry a good man. However, a girl who came from the work department would always be a lowly member of the society! Now, another lady came into the residence. She spent a lot money to deliberately transfer to here and thought that she would be able to have good days in the future. How could she know that the moment this Lady Chen came, she would charge into a pillar? Truly a bad luck! The money that she had saved for so long had become bubbles!

Who would’ve expected that what greeted Ziyu was Chen Hui’s uncontrollable chuckle?

Facing Ziyu’s disbelief, Chen Hui quickly refrained her laughter and said, “Ignore me, continue with your performance.” In fact, what she was laughing at was the word “master”. That sissy man that maybe wasn’t even thirty years old was called master. One couldn’t blame her for laughing!

However soon, Chen Hui couldn’t laugh at all.

After Ziyu was infuriated by Chen Hui’s attitude, Chen Hui lay down again and tried to sleep. However, when she woke up again, she discovered that she was still in this traditional house. Panic finally emerged in her.

Could it be that she truly time-traveled?

Chen Hui turned over and got out of bed. She sat down in front of the dressing table and looked at person in the mirror. The bronze mirror was a bit blurry, but she could still see her appearance.

This was not her!

At this moment, Chen Hui felt like she was watching a horror film when she looked at herself in the mirror. The appearance was much younger than her. Maybe, it was around sixteen to seven-year-old. Fine silk like hair fell naturally. A pretty small face, a pretty nose and cherry lips. Completely well worth a second look. The only thing ruining this beautiful appearance was the white gauze on her forehead. It made her face look paler.

The beauty in the mirror had a reserved beauty and was completely different from Chen Hui herself. She sat blankly in front of the dressing table for a while. She recalled everything that she had encountered in such a short period of time. She finally figured out her situation.

She had time-traveled. Moreover, she had time-traveled to a eunuch’s residence! She heard from that man…no, from that eunuch and that girl in pink that the original owner didn’t want to follow him, but was forced to come. In the end, she chose to commit suicide. Was it that exasperating eunuch that snatched a commoner woman? It seemed to be like that. However, when she thought about what that eunuch said when she had just time-traveled, there seemed to be another motive…

Presumably, the girl in pink should’ve been her NPC and guide, right? However, she didn’t know why that girl left like that. To whom should she fake amnesia and ask about everything?

• NPC: non player character

With no way to go back home, Chen Hui could only try to stay alive in this strange place. She began to clean herself up while facing the mirror. She couldn’t stay sick all the time. Even she wouldn’t be able to stand that. The things on the dressing table were all-around, but after all, they were different from the those in the modern time. She looked at the ancient versions of cosmetics with interest and studied them meticulously.

Just when Chen Hui was concentrating on taking a small step to greet this future life, the door of the room was suddenly pushed open. She turned her head and saw that the girl in pink was standing at the door, staring at her (CH).

Ziyu was carrying a small bag. She didn’t enter the room and only stood at the door. Taking joy in Chen Hui’s calamity, she said, “Lady Chen, congratulation for trying to find humanity and finally get it. Master sent someone to say that since you want to die, he will support you. Suffer hunger for the next three days! In the future, I won’t serve Lady Chen anymore!”

She left after she finished speaking as if she was fleeing some terrible plague.

Chen Hui put down the bottle in her hand. She didn’t have time to chase when Ziyu already disappeared without trace.

She stood there blankly and once again deeply realized her situation.

Firstly, the timing she time-traveled was the worst. It was when the original owner completely annoyed her financial support and meal ticket.

Secondly, she caused the NPC to leave her and go on a strike.

Thirdly, this was also the most important point. She had to suffer hunger for the next three days!

Chen Hui closed the door of the room, walked to the bed and sat down. These three points hit her head like a thunderbolt on a sunny day. She felt that she could faint at any time. She better sat down now.

She crossed her arms and looked around at the surrounding that for no apparent reason appeared more desolate. She thought that it was time to think about how to go back.

However…where was the solution?!

Chen Hui lay back annoyingly on the bed, rolled around irritably and happened to press the wound on her forehead. It was so painful that she stiffened and stayed in the prone position. It took a long while before she slowly rolled over and return to the supine position. Then, she sighed from relief.

She didn’t know how she had time-traveled. Her last memory seemed to be when she went to sleep. Her family was happy and blissful. Her parents loved and spoiled her and she also didn’t have a boyfriend who betrayed her and a best friend who stole her boyfriend. She never thought that she would encounter the things that happens in stories. So, was it god who got jealous because seeing that she was too happy and threw her over here to suffer?

When she thought about it, that sissy person who called himself “eunuch” was able to have a residence outside, marry…or better said take in concubines. Anyway, it was the same…It could be seen that his status wasn’t low. It was pretty miserable to follow a eunuch. However, compared to time-travelling as a poor peasant who had to worry about food and clothing, following a powerful and wealthy eunuch, at least she didn’t have to worry about food and clothing. After all, a eunuch missed something. She didn’t have to fulfill the obligation of husband and wife. If she became a bit docile and please him, presumably she didn’t have to worry about her livelihood for her whole life. However, her time-traveling timing was bad. She offended that person greatly. After all, a eunuch lacked a life important thing. His mental health would definitely be distorted, right? The original owner would rather commit suicide than to follow him; could he still be pleasant to her? See! Didn’t he not let her eat? The original owner caused the innocent her, the one who came to pick up the job to have a calamity! If the original owner could’ve been more open minded and accept the situation, wouldn’t she not have time-traveled to here to suffer?

Chen Hui was muddleheaded and didn’t know what she was thinking about. Her thoughts spread badly until when a series of rumblings sounded.

She touched her belly and sighed. She didn’t know when was the last time this body ate. She was so hungry now that her chest stuck on her back.

• Chest stuck on her back: famished

Chen Hui was not some obedient little girl. They didn’t give her food, could she not go make/find some herself? Being disloyal was a small matter; dying from starvation was a big matter!

She tidied her clothes and walked out of the room. The sunlight outside blinded her eyes. It was winter when she time-traveled. Here, it looked like spring or summer.

When Chen Hui walked out of the room, she discovered that her room was one of the many rooms in a yard. It might be the main room. The whole yard wasn’t big. It was probably a bit smaller than a basketball court and surrounded by walls of about two meters. The entrance of the yard was directly in front of her.

Chen didn’t know whether there were other people here. It was certain that the girl in pink had ran away. She also didn’t want to disturb others. She pondered for a moment and decided to go outside to take a glance at the situation.

When she came to the entrance, Chen Hui carefully pulled the door. She wasn’t able to move it. She looked carefully and pushed. The door still didn’t move. She was puzzled and used more strength, but no matter how she pulled and pushed, the door stayed still.

Had…she been locked up?

Not giving her food and also lock her up? Why didn’t that exasperating eunuch die!

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