Eunuch Romance Masterlist (links updated 8-22-2023)
All my conversations with @dangermousie about Schrodinger’s Eunuch (aka the upcoming Dylan Wang drama Forbidden Love and its source novel) have me wanting to share my top list of REAL EUNUCH romances because unlike some of y’all I like knowing my Eunuch is dead inside the box. Or the pants. Cough. ANYWAYS.
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Disclaimer: I don’t have a weird eunuch fetish. I just find that this super specific subgenre of xuanhuan hits a lot of my favorite romance tropes.
I’ve discovered there are three main types of ML with this genre. First there’s the seemingly cold, sinister male lead that everyone fears–but who actually is a secret bundle of insecurity and self-hatred whose defense can only be vanquished by the love and persistence of the female lead. I looove the whump and the role reversal where the FL is the one pursuing, coaxing, and seducing while the ML takes on a submissive role in their private life. (Is this the gateway to me reading danmei novels?) (Dear reader, it wasn’t.) (But I have since read many scholarly articles about Ming dynasty sex toys and castration practices so...yay?) Second, is the ML who is super soft, sweet, and shy. Then there’s the third type, the completely irredeemably evil & black-bellied yandere. Not as big a fan of that one since it seems to go hand-in-hand with dubcon, but gotta acknowledge that one is out there.
Anyways, to those of you who made it this far but have had zero interest in reading about the love lives of the castrated, thanks for listening to my rant.
For anyone else who wants their Eunuchs as they should be, lacking their manly bits, read on!
Art credit: 《世间戏4》封面 by 槿木-_-
苏公公,公公苏!/ Eunuch Su! Eunuch Su!
Previously Song Hui Ming had been afraid of Su Jin even in her dreams, fearful that he would use his power to oppress and force her to have a relationship with him.
It was not until Su Gonggong died that she realized it was just a misunderstanding.
Born again, feeling ashamed, she decided to repay her debt of gratitude, but, what? Su Gonggong, aren’t you a gentleman? I take you as a benefactor, and you really like me?
Su Gonggong: I, I, I’m not! I don’t! Don’t talk nonsense!
FL is reborn and decides Eunuch Su needs some good old-fashioned cherishing and appreciation. Sweet slice-of-life. 5 stars
嫁給一個死太監 / I Married an Exasperating Eunuch
Chen Hui had traveled through the passage of time, but – when she woke up, there wasn’t even a single female servant surrounding her who exclaimed her return to consciousness.
Instead, the only person standing in front of her was an exasperating eunuch who pinned her with a malicious glare whilst remarking sarcastically:
“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!”
Chen Hui: …
It turns out, that Chen Hui had time traveled, and awoken in the body of a lady who had attempted to commit suicide (by ramming her head against the pillar) to display her staunch refusal to marry an exasperating eunuch.
However, in order to fill her belly full and keep her body warm, Chen Hui had no choice but to continuously think of different ways and means to approach the exasperating eunuch, to get to know more about the exasperating eunuch, to please and bootlick the exasperating eunuch, and to seduce… No, wait, forget about seducing that exasperating eunuch.
The eunuch Li Youde had spent his entire life being a callous, deceitful, and sly person. Never in his wildest dreams did he imagine during his most desperate hour all he could think about was how the mischievous, pampered, trouble-making enchantress at home would be able to continue living a worry-free and comfortable life without him by her side.
This was the third Eunuch romance I read and I’ve gone back and re-read it several times. It’s hilarious, and I loooove the female lead. She knows what she wants lmao. The ML, is not a likable character at all, but not in a fucked up cold dark killing machine way. He’s just a petty dude with an inferiority complex that does not jive with his overinflated ego and the amount of powder he cakes on his face. What’s sweet is watching him slowly become a better person by the end of the novel. (Or at least a whipped one.) 5 stars
恃宦而骄 / Arrogant in the Name of a Eunuch
Ming Shenzhou entered the palace as a pawn on the chessboard. When everyone was waiting to see her joke, a whip fell into her line of sight. "If you can't get in through the East Gate, then you can enter through the West Gate."
Ming Shenzhou looked at the icy face and had a bold idea. She needs a mountain of support. Even if he is vicious and paranoid, even if he is notorious. Even if he is a eunuch.
She took him as a shelter, a reliance, not a dog, not a cold-blooded and filthy beast. He held her like a bright moon, sending her all the way.
“In a high position, no one can bully you."
She is the pearl he will never let go of.
I read this one most recently and enjoyed it a lot. The author has also written some het novels, but none of them were as good as this one IMO. 5 stars
宦宠 / Eunuch's Pet
The world knows that the eunuch Pei Huiguang is treacherous and hostile, and when the emperor died, everyone said that he wouldn’t leave the little empress dowager alive.
In the ceremony of the sacrifice to heaven, he crouched at her feet in front of thousands of people and held up the hem of her palace dress for her.
He is a living evil devil, born to overthrow, but only willing to be her minister.
She is the moon, and he is mud beneath her feet. But even so, he will risk the world to get her.
Turn this deep palace into a sea of joy for him and her, until death.
This is my all-time fAVoRiTE Eunuch romance. I was rabid, foaming at the mouth while reading this. It’s also VERY FUCKED UP. Like, the ML is a toxic wasteland and he does some really weird (kinky?) shit. So this is not for the faint-hearted. I mean at one point he drinks her bathwater, asks her to keep his thumb ring stored in her hoochie so he can lick it later, sticks his hand in a candle flame to warm it up for her because he’s jealous of the porcelain dildo THAT HE GIFTED HER IN THE FIRST PLACE, and eventually makes her a medicinal amulet out of his own bones and blood. SO. The dude is not the most stable of male leads! That said. 5 STARS
祸宦 / High-Official
The day the traitorous eunuch Yan Qing was executed, the empress went mad. He was named Yan Qi when he entered the palace at the age of twelve, and in his sixth year, he saw the embroidered skirts of the empress spread out before him, so dazzling that he couldn't look directly. The Empress was sitting in front of the dressing table, motionless, her profile as beautiful as a painting, and sad as a broken poem. Since then, the whole meaning of his life has become her. She needed warmth, so he can burn himself.
The empress and the eunuch, the love is deep and the life is not long.
Well I went into this one knowing it was going to be a tragedy, but what a beautiful one. Two broken people falling in love inside the cage of the palace. The prose was gorgeous, even using google translate. 5 stars
掌印太监的小尼姑 / The Little Nun Who Held the Eunuch’s Seal
Who is Chen Yixing? He is the eunuch holding the great seal, under one person but above ten thousand. He turns black to white, hides a knife in his smile, and while he speaks softly with you one moment, he can kill you the next...
As an ordinary little nun, Fanyi's wish is very simple: To chant sutras and spend this life in peace. But now her nunnery is involved in a case of treasury theft, and in order to save her fellow sisters she had to agree to Chen Yixing's condition - stay by his side to assist in the investigation until the case is over...
The fate of this little nun must not be too good-looking.
But a year later, the case was solved, and everyone was beaten in the face.
One is that the gloomy Eunuch actually lets the little nun go back to the nunnery according to the original agreement. The other is that the little nun wished to leave again, returning to a life in the secular world even if it meant undergoing the three torturous punishments.
Seeing Fan Yi coming back covered in blood, Chen Yixing was so angry that his temples hurt, but the little nun just smiled at him with a pale face and said, "I am willing." Chen Yixing turned away, but the little nun behind him was unrelenting: "Chen Yixing, I love you, and I’m not ashamed." His figure froze, and his eyes turned red...
A lot of noble idiocy and masochism in this one. At one point the FL willingly walks a gauntlet of hot coals (among other tortures) in order to leave her nunnery and return to the vulgar (and marry the eunuch ML.) Then the ML forcibly leaves her behind to try and get her to live a normal life with the 2nd ML which goes about as well as you would expect. Then there’s an uncomfortable scene where she vents her fear and frustrations at his noble idiocy by some borderline non-con means, so trigger warning for that. 4.5 stars
诱宦 / Enticing the Eunuch
Lu Zhan was sent to Suzhou Prefecture to oversee the weaving industry. Everyone flatters him to his face, then turns their backs to scold him.
He has been in hell for too long and gradually forgot that he was once a man with high aspirations and a high degree of integrity. Now as a Eunuch, only power brings him dignity. Until he met Yuan Zhiqiu, the flower girl of Suzhou. She is charming, doesn’t fear him, and uses her own hands to wipe off the blood.
Lu Zhan's hand was hot, his eyes were cold, and something dark sprouted at the bottom of his heart. Lu Zhan gradually lost himself in her methods, but looking down at his empty brocade pants, he pushed her away.
"Don’t you know that I’m a Eunuch?"
She laughed with care. "Lu Zhan, a man's dignity doesn't grow there, it grows in his heart."
From then on, she became Lu Zhan's dignity.
So this one was a REALLY rough MTL, but I persevered because the OTP was so beautiful. She’s a fallen woman, he’s a despised Eunuch. Her tender pursuit of him, body and soul, is really lovely to watch. I was also telling @dangermousie that this is the novel where the Eunuch uses some weird poison Viagra and a blindfold during the sex scenes because he’s so hung up on the FL having a nice time/not noticing what he’s lacking. For the longest time, she thinks he actually has a dick. (He does not.) 4.5 stars
这个太监我要了 / I’ll Take This Eunuch
Jiang Banxia fished out a dying beauty from the river under the cliff, taking him back home without a word only to find that the “beauty” is a eunuch!
As the youngest and most ruthless Eunuch in the history of the Great Jin Dynasty, Lu Xuan had never seen a woman like Jiang Banxia in his 26 years of life! At first, Lu Xuan only wanted to kill this woman who had seen his true face, but later this woman pulled him back from the gates of hell again and again...
FL is a transmigrator living with her cute dog named Rhubarb in a little shack by the river. She saves the ML, vicious Eunuch on the run from a billion assassins, and blackmails him into taking her back home. At one point they pretend to be siblings, and then because PLOT we find out they might actually be siblings! Ahhhh fakecest! (What makes it angstier is they totally banged before finding out.) Anyways don’t worry they aren’t really related and they get a HEA. 4.5 stars
穿成太监的冲喜新娘 / Dressed as a Eunuch’s Bride
Jiang Fei has become the cannon fodder female supporting role in the book. The original owner was the daughter of the Hou mansion, but she lived abroad for more than ten years and could not enter the eyes of nobles in the capital. Everyone ridiculed that this person was not as good as Jiang Yunlan, the adopted daughter of Hou Ye. Jiang Feiwei wasn't as inconceivable as the original owner. She can fight the sky and the ground, and she can be a salted fish, holding a script in her hand, passing the test, and making a name for herself in the capital... Then she became the counterpart of the eunuch.
Everyone: Will she throw herself into the river with grief and anger?
Jiang Feiwei: Marrying Gu Yan? Anyway, the big villain has his own white moonlight, wouldn't it be nice to eat and wait to die?
Gu Yan's warm face flashed a haze: "Is this the reason why Madam agreed to marry me?"
"Living King of Hell" Gu Yan was given marriage by the emperor. While everyone laughed at the eunuch's marriage, they also bet that the lady would not live long. Until one day, someone saw that the ruthless and unscrupulous Eunuch carrying his little girl on his back, walking down the long palace road with a smile.
The ill-fated noble lady of the Hou mansion and the eunuch with a far-reaching reputation have actually become a good story sung in the picture book.
The FL is a salted fish, the ML fronts as a big baddie but actually has a huge inferiority complex. I will say that the ending was a bit rushed in that it felt like a big chunk of the story got cut out. (At one point the OTP is separated but we don’t get to see how the FL makes it back to the ML, but it’s implied a lot of fucked up stuff happened in between.) Anyways one of the best reunion scenes. They’re both sick and injured and clinging to each other and the ML is like “I heard you calling me, so I didn’t drink the Mengpo soup and made my way back running all the way.” A++ doting. 4.5 stars
宦来娇 / Huan Lai Jiao
After her half-sister snatched away her marriage, Le You’s father sent her to the court eunuch Ning Yuandao to be despised and ridiculed by the world. Ning Yuandao gave her treasures and affection, seemingly doting, but in reality he plans to use her as a pawn. But then the situation changed and the former high official found himself in prison, only to watch his wife smile and drink the poisoned wine and exchange his life for hers. After seeing the warm sun, who can endure the long and lonely winter’s night? In the end, it's a story of a kind and lovely white rabbit sympathizing with a strange wolf and being taken back to his nest!
The MTL of this one was a bit rough to read, but I enjoyed it. Transmigrator wakes up and finds that she’s marrying a eunuch, and decides to treat him with sincerity and live a good life. There’s some great doting and some really lovely angsty bits. 4.5 stars
棺材铺里的小太监 / The Little Eunuch in the Coffin Shop
So this is a village/economics slice-of-life with a dash of Eunuch romance. FL is the servant/poor relative of an awful family who tries to force her to marry their idiot son and runs away after her future FIL tries to rape her. She opens up a coffin shop in a little village and meets her old childhood sweetheart and falls in love, not knowing that he’s now a high-ranking Eunuch in the imperial court on a personal quest for revenge. 4 stars
跟病娇太监比命长 / Live Longer than the Sickly Eunuch
Ning Wanxin used to be the pearl in the palm of Marquis Mansion. However, in a coup d'etat, the Ning family was destroyed. In the past, the charming girl who was amazing in the imperial capital became crazy overnight and was given to the ruthless and sinister eunuch chief as a plaything.
Wei Lan's brows were gloomy. The first time he saw her, he asked the question: Can I send Ning Wanxin to her death today?
The entire palace was in a state of pity, thinking the flower was helpless and would die in a few days. But Ning Wanxin not only lived, but she also lived day after day.
Until the entire court knew that the Chief Eunuch had someone at the tip of his heart.
This is a shorter one (64 chapters) and has a lot of political intrigues as well (blah blah forest army, blah blah tiger seal) but what sticks out most to me is at one point towards the end, the FL literally tortures the delusional 2nd ML in prison with whips and brands in order to make him hand over the antidote to the poison that was killing the ML. Like, damn girl. And later the Eunuch goes to the prison and is all “ha you don’t even know what her favorite food is and you think you’re worthy of her love.” Lol. 4 stars
权宦为我点朱砂 / The Powerful Eunuch Paints My Face with Cinnabar
Mu Qing is the admiral of Dongchang, a treacherous eunuch with blood on his hands and a vicious heart, and also the sweetheart of princess Fu Huan. If there is anyone in the world who can make him kneel willingly, it can only be her. From the humblest eunuch to the position above tens of millions, he was willing to bow his head and kiss the corner of her skirt. Like silt, always longing for flowers. He tapped Fuhuan's forehead with his fingertips, and the blood on his finger was so thick that it was printed on her forehead, even more colorful than the cinnabar on the little princess' eyebrows when they first met. Mu Qing kissed that spot of blood, his lips sickly and flirtatious. He murmured and said stubbornly: "Your Highness, you belong to Mu Qing."
This one was interesting! As the author put it: “The male lead has evil intentions, evil hands, and is not a good person.” Lol no shit. This eunuch is perverse in that he is obsessively in love with the FL to the point where he happily commits regicide left and right just to keep a smile on her face. You have to read closely to pick up all the clues as the author isn’t super explicit. Is this relationship unhealthy? Yes lol. But despite being evil and slightly gross in his isolating possessiveness, he does treat the FL like the princess she is. The ending was pretty open-ended though, which while not feeling abrupt, did seem to leave a lot hanging. (Like, will the princess ever find out all the nasty shit her eunuch lover did to the people around her? Does it matter?) 4 stars
宦妃 / Eunuch and Concubine
The saddest thing isn’t being poisoned and time-traveling, but falling in love with a ruthless man who has no penis after time-traveling, all while being his master’s concubine. What to do now?? AKA “How to Fall in Love if you Don’t have a Dick.” The heroine is calm, and the hero is ruthless.
So the plot summary makes this sound like a comedy, but its actually a harem-fight novel + thoughtful romance. Our FL transmigrates and ends up entering the palace as a concubine with zero interest in the emperor (”who wants a cucumber that’s been licked by so many people??”) and instead sets her eyes on the handsome head eunuch who happens to be quite the lothario. They go from using each other, to genuinely falling in love, and then having to sneak around behind the emperor’s back while dodging mines concubines set on sinking their battleship relationship. Nice angsty bits, sweet love confessions (the FL tattoos her name on the ML’s chest) hot make outs, and a rare “pro-choice” view on childbirth. 4 stars
嫁宦 / Marry a Eunuch
In charge of the East Factory for five years, Yin Cheng has always been a villain who has been dubbed cold-blooded and vicious by the world. Until one day, a woman appeared, and his iceberg-like heart gradually melted, and he was stuck in the mud from then on, unable to extricate himself. He loves deeply, but loves hesitantly; he desires to be loved, but fears that it is not true love. It wasn't until the woman satisfied his self-esteem by saying sweetly that he would marry him that he took out the marriage decree and stuffed it into her hands. "Okay, I'll marry you." When the woman saw the decree, she knew she had been fooled.
This one had a fresh and interesting setting. The smart FL is a blind storyteller making her living at a teahouse with her adoptive family. I will say it felt a little too long in that it took forever for the couple to get together. There were some also unexpectedly violent/gory scenes towards the end with a bunch of side characters dropping like flies. 3.75 stars
权宦的美娇娘 / The Beauty of a Powerful Eunuch
Zhao Shiyi encounters a group of robbers on her way to Qingzhou, but she is fortunate enough to be saved by the eunuch Wang Zhichan.
Wang Zhichan brings a bride price of ten thousand dollars to the Zhao family's doorstep and smiles at her askance: "You will never escape our family's palm!”
When he first met Zhao Shiyi, he only saw her as unruly and was determined to tame her into a good little white rabbit. The main thing is that he is still willing and happy to do it.
From what I recall there was not much plot, but there was good snu-snu so I gave it 3.75 stars
女富商的小太监 / The Little Eunuch of a Wealthy Businesswoman
The regulations of the Great Zhou Dynasty stipulated that all servants in the palace who were seriously ill should be expelled. The rough eunuch, Xiao Hezi, couldn't afford to be sick. He used the money he had saved to hire a doctor, but when the doctor said he was dying he was thrown out anyway.
It was cold and windy, and Xiao Hezi had no money, no place to live, and no food to eat. Before he lost consciousness, only hatred remained in his heart. When he woke, he met a pair of gentle eyes asking with a smile, "What's your name?"
Xiao Hezi lied, concealed his identity, and choked, "Slave's name is He Liu."
“That’s too plain. Why don’t we call you He Muqing?”
After suffering from humiliation in the scum and ugliness in the palace, all He Muqing could feel was hatred, but now there was a person who made those memories turn into dust in an instant. The soil nourishes the buds.
"People in the world are created equal." Gu Heyi's words touched He Muqing thoroughly. Having concealed his identity, he thought, can you accept a lowly person like me?” The fear of discovery terrified him day and night.
This one is rather sweet. The curmudgeonly eunuch ends up dying on the street and is brought home by a rich businesswoman. She takes him in and gives him work in her store, and they fall in love all while he conceals the secret that he’s actually a eunuch. Nice slice-of-life economics along with the angsty love if you like that sort of thing. I really loved how the FL just didn’t care about any of the class BS of the time and just wanted to love him. 3.75 stars
一心只想嫁太监 / I Only Want to Marry a Eunuch
Qiu Zhenmeng had a fiancé when she was young. After their hometown flooded, her fiancé was forced to make a living and entered the palace to earn money.
Now after so many years, she travels to the capital to find him and remind him of their betrothal, only to discover that her one-time sweetheart is now a powerful Eunuch.
Qiu Zhenmeng waited for a long time before explaining her intentions, but Wang Congyue just smiled and said softly: "What good is it to linger on a marriage contract from when we were young? I’ll choose another good person to marry you."
Qiu Zhenmeng grabbed his hand anxiously and asked, "Have you changed your mind?"
Wang Congyue was blushing, but his expression was light: "I'm already a eunuch. If you follow me, you can't have children, and you’ll be mocked by the world, what's the benefit?"
There were tears in Zhenmeng's eyes: "I don't want benefits, I just want my fiancé. Since you haven't changed your mind, I'm here, and I won't leave."
After a long time, Wang Congyue said: "If you don’t leave today, forget trying in the future. I will never let you go.”
After all, he too wanted to live like an ordinary person.
ML was tricked into becoming a Eunuch after he tried finding work, and is too embarrassed to contact his fiancé back home. Our FL travels to the capital in search of him, and when she finds out he’s a eunuch she’s more concerned about him reneging on the engagement than about the fact that he has no junk. A sweet little story. 3.75 stars
一梦归 / A Dream Returns
In the last life, Xiao Shen, the supervisor of the East Factory, met a tragic end, and the new emperor ordered his execution by a thousand cuts at the beginning of his term. Even though he was in a high position, he was still a prisoner of his own broken body, a disposable outcast of the imperial power, and the happiness of ordinary people had nothing to do with him. After his rebirth, he only wanted to keep himself from ending up in the same situation, but did not dare to think about love. But he didn’t expect that his wife Song Qiu Di, who was cold to him in his previous life, had changed her nature in this life and was loving and caring to him, taking the initiative to flirt with him from time to time, making him want to stop. After several attempts, the two finally put aside their knots, escaped from the cage and joined hands for a hundred years.
I had ignored this one on my TBR list because it was so short (37 chapters) but the chapters are a decent length and there are some really well done (and fairly explicit for a cnovel) sex scenes that had me fanning myself like whoa. There’s also a great note from the author towards the end of the book talking about the research they’d done on eunuchs and explaining some of the burning questions I had for google months ago lol. I just wish there was more OTP fluff and less political stuff but ah well, it was still pretty good. 3.75 stars
娇太后的宦官情郎 / The Empress Dowager’s Eunuch Lover
Chu Weiyang used to be the most charming and spoiled lady in the capital, and her tears were like golden beans. But when the eldest sister died in childbirth and she was forcibly escorted to the palace by the imperial army to wear the phoenix crown, she didn’t shed a tear. Then the old emperor died, and she withdrew into the palace with her young nephew with dry eyes.
Everyone said that the once spoiled young lady had grown up, but when she heard rumors that the new emperor had given a palace maid to the East Factory Admiral Wei Ming, she rushed to his room that night, crying and threatening him with a slap: "If you dare to bring people in, I will drown your mansion in tears!"
Wei Ming's heart grew warm, and he hugged the squeamish little girl coaxing softly and lingeringly: "I will listen to you, I will listen to you."
It was he who lifted the red veil on the night of her wedding to the emperor and accompanied her to sleep, but he felt that he was not worthy of her, so he could only love carefully, guarding her every time she wanted to cry but couldn't.
Wei Ming promised her a lot, but he could never promise his heart. His love was too forbearing and restrained, but he didn't know that the other party had already entered his heart step by step and refused to leave.
Another dowager empress x eunuch romance. The FL cries a lot and is slightly annoying. See Eunuch’s Pet above for a better version of this plot. 3.5 stars
惨遭权宦强娶后 / After Being Forcibly Married to a Powerful Eunuch
The throne was changed, the prince and his family were imprisoned, and the once famous girl has fallen into the brothel.
Coincidentally, Xie Wu, the governor of the West Factory, was rich and powerful, with a thousand taels of gold in his pocket. Everyone in the capital sighed saying such powerful eunuchs are cold and vicious, and will definitely destroy such a flower in his hand.
Xie Wu's pale finger trailed along Wen Shumei's jaw: "Do you know who I am?"
Wen Shumei's heart was already burnt to ash before she entered the Xie Mansion. In the four years she spent at the brothel, several dignitaries in Chang'an City who had asked for her card died of violent illness. One who tried to rape her even died of ulceration three days later, and it was said that when he was buried that pus seeped out of his coffin. With a life like this, it would be better to go with this powerful and treacherous eunuch!
Later, when the treacherous eunuch heard about it, he looked at her speechlessly for a long time: "Little lady, you’re being too gracious." 3.5 stars
重生爱上九千岁 / Reborn to Love Lord Qiansui
If there was any identical and pure coincidence.
He is Lord Jiu Qiansui who everyone loathed. He is vicious, merciless, cruel, and savage. Receiving flattery and taking unfair advantage, causing calamity and chaos. The emperor doted on him and trusted him, the consorts tried to gain his favor, the crown prince vowed to get rid of him and the officials wished that they could devour his bones and eat his flesh.
The crafty wanted to get into his favor.
The honorable wanted to kill him.
The commoners looked down upon him.
He is the rebel and traitor that everyone wanted dead.
And then he got a love he wouldn’t even dare to think about. That cold fragrance had always stood by his side and vaguely always surrounded him. She was like an antidote that seemed to carry poison, making him crazy.
If you don’t abandon me, then I will give up everything for you to have a life of no worries!
When Zhao Zimu pulled Ling Qing’s first white hair, his lips were in a thin line, and asked displeased, “Do you abhor me now?”
Zhao Zimu touched his forehead with her lips and laughed, “How would I dislike you? You are the one I want to grow old with. Now, you are just one step ahead of me.”
Even through the rain of blood and forest of daggers, I will stay by your side in this life, looking at how the flowers bloom and wither and how winter becomes spring.
So this is the OG Eunuch novel I read and while at the time I found it amazing and subversive, on a writing/plot level it’s probably just a 2.5-star read if I’m generous. The drama adaptation Oh My Lord looked AWFUL and they made him a fake Eunuch in it so I never watched it. But if I hadn’t read this drama I wouldn’t have read all the others so, rounding it up to 3.5 stars
嫁给奸宦冲喜后 / After Marrying a Treacherous Eunuch
When Lu Shao was fifteen the empress dowager sent her to marry Jin Zhuoyuan, the bloodthirsty minister of ceremonies. Lu Shao is cautious and careful, not daring to make mistakes. She originally thought that when the factory governor woke up, he would either send her away or chop her up and feed her to the dogs. But who would have thought that the factory supervisor did not kill her, nor did he expel her. In fact, her life is quite nourishing. Lu Shao ate candied skewers, thinking that the people outside were wrong. The factory governor is so good-looking, how can he be a murderous devil? The people all thought that Lu Shao would die soon after marrying Jin Xhuoyuan, but one day, Lu Shao fell ill on her couch, and the ruthless factory governor's hand holding the medicine bowl was shaking. "Shao Shao, take a sip, and I’ll buy you sweet honey syrup to eat." Only then did everyone realize that the factory governor's hand is not only bloodthirsty with a knife, but can also hold a small face, serve tea, and wipe tears.
This one was...alright. Yandere ML and lots of sex scenes. TW for non-con elements and some kinky stuff with bunny tail butt plugs. 3 stars
裙下权宦 / Powerful Eunuch Under the Skirt
At first, Changle was just a eunuch that everyone could bully, although he was well-behaved, his pale face was full of coldness. Seeing that he was pitiful, , the empress dowager Seeing that he was pitiful, Song Ying asked him to be her personal eunuch. When she ascended the throne as empress dowager, Changle, as the most beloved eunuch beside the empress, began to take over and arrange all the affairs of the harem. He personally chose a beautiful young son from a large family and sent him to the Empress' palace, but when palace was brightly lit, he would carry a pot of wine and sit in the cold wind and drink alone. But one day he was so drunk that he stumbled into a warm embrace and looked up to see the face that had been in his dreams night after night. Song Ying gently wiped away the tears at the corners of his eyes with his hand and spoke in a gentle tone, "Changle, come back to the palace with me." The eunuch Changle feels that he has no desire in this life, but whenever he glances at His Highness in the big red phoenix robe, his heart always pounds.
So this one sounded great from the summary but from what little I remember, the ending wasn’t super happy. I rated it and promptly forgot the contents as it left zero impression. 3 stars
我的驸马是太监 / My Consort is a Eunuch
After being reborn, the Princess lived as she wished, and did all the things that women wanted to do but couldn't. She did them all fearlessly and boldly... and in the process, she abducted an astonishing husband.
So this one had potential, but it never got into the previous life stuff or explain why the Eunuch ML was crushing on the Princess in that timeline. Instead we got a slow burn type romance which was great, but there really wasn't much plot to go with it. And the villain of the previous life barely shows up or does anything. He's dealt with offscreen. Then the plot or what was left of it literally and figuratively goes over a cliff with the ML (though that was a nice angsty scene!) and everything after that was just annoying and poorly written IMO. Everything up to and including the cliff scene I'd give 4 stars, but because the ending didn't feel like an ending and they introduced a lot of weird stuff like magic Gu spiders and shit, I'm bumping it down. In its favor, there were a lot of hot make outs. 3 stars
公主养宦手册 / The Princess’ Handbook for Raising Eunuchs
This was a rough MTL where it felt like a lot of the story was missing? Cold and calculating princess + nondescript Eunuch who eventually becomes a rebel leader. Heavy on the politics, not so much on the romance. Meh. 3 stars
穿书后和偏执太监HE了 / After Entering the Book, She had a HE with the Paranoid Eunuch
Once Li Jianran entered the book, she became the brainless and domineering brainless cannon fodder and decided to listen to the system's advice and turn to the embrace of the villain. However, when the the mantle was lifted the man in front of her was white and beardless, his eyes were sharp, feminine and ruthless. Her expression gradually froze. Mo Yanjin looked at the unkempt woman in front of him and gritted his teeth: "Miss Li, why do you want to humiliate this family?" Li Jianran was in shock. “Wait! What is going on? How is this a eunuch? Where is the villain?” System: “The villain is this eunuch!” Once Mo Yanjin gained power, he vowed to take revenge on all the people who had humiliated him, and the first on the list was the domineering Miss Li. But for some reason, I don't know when, she gradually became a bright color on his heart, lingering.
Eunuch villain + FL transmigrator. There is no plot. Scenes with the OTP are cute though. 3 stars
找个太监嫁了吧 / Find a Eunuch to Marry
Eunuch Fang, the eunuch of the Punishment Department, is notoriously vicious, fierce and difficult to deal with. Everyone knows that this father-in-law is not a vegetarian. Until one day—"Gongong, look how juicy this little cabbage is, sweet and crunchy, come and open your mouth~" "Gongong, look how smooth this little bitter gourd is, it clears away heat and fire, come and open your mouth~" ” ——The next day, Eunuch Zhang burst into a blush and the little girl started digging the soil to plant vegetables, humming a little tune: “Little cabbage, the Gongong is shy again~” 2.5 stars
一梦归(太监X女官) / This Eunuch isn't Too Cold
3rd life is the charm. Weird Gu worms and the female lead has the appetite of No Face and rips a bears throat out with her teeth. 2 stars
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