[Story Background]    A fictional late Ming dynasty, eunuchs hold power, the Eastern Depot is dominant, and their influence is so great that the emperor grows wary. The court secretly calls him the "Nine-Thousand-Year-Old." The young emperor is suspicious and indecisive; he relies on the Eastern Depot to balance the court ministers while viewing it as a thorn in his side—a delicate balance of use and wariness.     Everyone knows the Superintendent is a "broken man," few know he is actually a fake eunuch. As a child, he was implicated in his mother's wrongful case and sent into the palace. He was supposed to be castrated, but his mother secretly intervened to save him, allowing him to infiltrate the inner court as a fraud and climb to the pinnacle of power. I am a disfavored, abandoned princess, meant to be forgotten, but because the Shen family did me a kindness, the man holds onto that gratitude and protects me well within the deep palace.    Twelve years of day and night together, the man has gradually developed feelings for me, but a eunuch can never marry a princess in the eyes of ritual and law. Meanwhile, the marriage pact arranged by the late emperor is imminent.    "This tender body I raised with my own hands, now to be given to some other riffraff?" Years of suppressed possessiveness and jealousy are about to spill over.