TLNote: This book is about two people who came to love one another and tried their best to make a world where they can grow old together. The male character is a eunuch who is so powerful that everyone at court feared him, but deep down he is a lonely person who lacked love and trust. He is insecure and feel that he isn’t worthy of the female lead. The female gradually won him over by showing her undying love for him. The female lead’s personality is kinda like Shen Miao from The Rebirth of the Malicious Empress of Military Lineage. She is cold and indifferent, but when she falls in love, she would love that person with all her heart. She is a highly skilled martial artist who likes to use her strength to tease the male lead in bed. The roles seemed to be reversed in this book. The female lead is the one who does the teasing and the one who has the strength while the male lead is like a shy girl. So, the story is basically about the female lead coming back to repay the male lead for saving her in her past life. During this process, she came to love him and wanted to do everything to keep him safe, since she knew his ending in the last life. What I also like about this book is the more realistic portrayal of the ancient life and that it was not always rainbows and unicorns.
Chapter 1 Zhao Zimu
The moonlight was helplessly intoxicating. Zhao Zimu blankly used her hand to block her face. The dots and spots of the tree were printed like a painting on her lying body, but the face of the person in the painting was a bit blank because Zhao Zimu somehow found that she had been reborn.
She originally has already died…
In the past lifetime, Zhao Zimu was the seventh lady of the illegitimate line of Zhao clan. Her mother had passed away when she was young. Her father was an official of the seventh rank. When she was seventeen-year-old, she was given as a gift to the Great Inner Chief Eunuch Lin Qing, that is, Lord Jiu Qiansui of this dynasty. When she was twenty-seven-year-old, she was killed because of being implicated by Lord Jiu Qiansui under the pretense of getting rid of the traitor. Now, like a dream, she came back to the place where she had lived for ten years, his residence….
- Jiu Qiansui means nine thousand
Supernatural things were not credible. Even if it was not as good as Zhuangzi and a dream, it also made her feel perplexed. She didn’t want to think too much anymore, but after being reborn, did she want to live like the past life again? Although, there was nothing bad with that, but…the moment she thought about that person, it gave her a complex feeling in her heart.
- Zhuangzi: a Daoist author (369-286BC)
The maid next to her, Ling Er, wrapped her in a large white cloak to prevent her from freezing. Ling Er couldn’t help but feel a bit depressed. Miss liked to lay in the yard. No matter if it was spring, summer, autumn or winter, miss liked to lay on the deck chair under the apricot tree. Sometimes, with a book and a cup of tea, she could stay there for a whole day. Truly a bit too cold, without desire and something she wanted beseech. Although, other misses were also raised inside the boudoir, at least they have some fun. However, her miss was different. Sometimes, she felt that her miss was like the Buddha in the temple. What missed was, people worshipping her.
The weather gradually got colder. Even if miss wanted to lay there, she didn’t know to put on more clothes. She (L) had just took a trip to the kitchen and when she returned, miss was laying under the apricot tree again. Ling Er felt that a family was about to form under the tree. Ling Er with an expression of a little adult showed a helpless look. She felt that her miss must’ve been frozen to blankness. Just now, she actually pulled her (L) and asked about what year and month it was. Moreover, miss was very serious, scaring her so much that she even reported the reigning year.
- The reigning year refers to how many years the current emperor had reigned.
If something happened to miss because of a cold, she also didn’t want to live anymore. Miss is her closest person in this world. She couldn’t be without miss. Ling Er thought seriously.
Zhao Zimu shook her head. She took Ling Er’s hand and patted on her chubby hand, signaling her that she was fine. This maid of hers, no matter if it was in the past life or this life, she was so likeable. That was why, she (ZZM) looked for a good partner for her and married her off so soon, lest she (ZZM) delays her if she (ZZM) kept her by her side and also let her escape the calamity. Now, meeting again, they weren’t estranged. It felt like a scene from yesterday.
The fireworks of a few streets away could still be seen under the dark sky of Jiu Qiansui’s residence. Today is the emperor of Liang’s third prince Situ Wenrui’s birthday. Situ Wenrui is the child of emperor Jinghui’s favorite consort. He was deeply favored and received the flattered of the officials. They expected to please this third prince so that he would say a few good things about them in front of the emperor. Perhaps, they could move a bit forward then. Who didn’t want to hold power? Just thinking about it would make people be so excited that they would be unable to sleep.
Even with closed eyes, Zhao Zimu could think about how greedy those faces were. She remembered that today there would be an assassination attempt at the third prince’s residence.
She also remembered that after today, there would be rumors that Jiu Qiansui was injured.
When she heard this news in the past life, she didn’t care about whether it was true or false. Because, in the past life, Lin Qing was known as the Great Inner Chief Eunuch Jiu Qiansui. Usually, he wouldn’t stay in the residence that the emperor of Liang bestowed to him. Every month, he would only come back once or twice and these one or two times were often used to deal with those officials who wanted to curry favor from him.
Although, Lin Qing didn’t return, but everything that should be in Jiu Qiansui’s residence was there. A spacious and luxurious house, glittering and a delight for the eye furniture, able and efficient servants and many beauties that were beautiful as flowers.
She felt funny thinking about it. He was obviously a eunuch but those people who wanted to fawn upon him always stuffed his residence with various kinds of beauties. There were many variety. Each one had their own distinguished feature. Dancers, singers, pretty daughter of a humble family; all that one could think of was on hand.
The final analysis was that the court attendants generally had a strange problem, which couldn’t be considered to be a problem. It could be said that it was a requirement.
Although, a eunuch had lost the joy of human relations, they still wished that at their side was someone to their liking and that they could live like a normal couple. However, this was obviously impossible. Or perhaps some eunuch wanted to satisfy their morbid mental needs and requirements. So, they refused nobody that came. And this eunuch’s power was bound to be great.
Since ancient times, there had been customary rules in the palace that had been agreed on tacitly. Some older maids who didn’t have the fate to be favored by the emperor tended to be with eunuch to meet their own physical and psychological needs. This binding was called Eating Together.
Lin Qing was different from those people but also the same. The difference was that he didn’t need to find those palace maids. There would be those who would automatically send those beautiful women to him to let him play with. The same was, he didn’t reject them. Jiu Qiansui’s residence never lacked beauties as long as he wanted.
Zhao Zimu was a beauty of his residence. Her father had sent her over to get into Lin Qing’s favor. Just like those dancers who were treated as gifts, her father let her put on revealing clothes, put up gorgeous makeup, make her appear charmingly and then personally sent her to Lin Qing.
Although, she didn’t think that she was pretty, but perhaps others wouldn’t think like that. Because she was from the illegitimate line, there were few people in Zhao residence that noticed her. Presumably, this was also why Zhao Wenbo would sent her over so unburdened. Moreover, he could show his heart better by doing so. There was nothing that could show his sincerity more than giving a daughter.
It was funny when thinking about it. Lin Qing wasn’t picky. He accepted her without even having looked at her. Later, after being for a long time in the residence did she got to know that there were only a few women that could stay in Jiu Qiansui’s residence. How one came in would be how one would leave. Those who knew about this would think that Jiu Qiansui’s trade was very good. Not only did it attract people’s heart but also achieved higher benefits for himself.
Before being reborn, Zhao Zimu didn’t care about these at all. However, after being reborn and experiencing those thing in the past life, she couldn’t stop paying attention to that person. No matter how vicious, merciless, treacherous and ruthless others saw him as and even if he was a traitor of the country, she was unable to ignore and not be concerned about him. This lifetime, she would protect him.
No matter if today’s matter was true or false, she had to go take a look. Zhao Zimu looked at the moon in the sky. It was almost time. After she let Ling Er clean up, they went back in the room together. After Ling Er finished cleaning, a flicker of a dark shadow rushed out of Zhao Zimu’s room silently and disappeared into the darkness in a flash.
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Thanks for a new translation starting with a mass release. How many chapters long is the novel?
After re-reading the chapter I noticed a sentence I didnt notice before. She was killer by his actions but she decides to protect him. I hope it Will be explained why in the next chapters as any sane people would surely resent him
In her past life, he gave up his life for her but was still not able to save her. after she reincarnated, she decided to repay this gesture.
It is 145 chapters with three side stories
What does (L) mean in kind of confused
Ling Er, I usually put the first letter of the person I mean and sometimes the name and surname of the person. For example, Zhao Zimu (ZZ).
I don’t get he’s an eunuch? Can eunuchs have s*x?
Yes, just not typical sex, like for reproduction, but other types of sexual acts, if that makes sense.