u/Taki_the_chimaera

I don't remember what app I saw it on, or who was in it, but the story has stuck with me and I have to finish it!!

Abused and murdered woman is reborn and enacts revenge plot. Costume drama, woman of noble birth and is a concubine or "kept" woman that ends up being used and murdered by 4 or 5 high officials who get away with all they do to her because of their high positions.

After she's reborn, she gets her revenge on the first man and murders him, but it's witnessed by the main/highest ranking eunuch. He doesn't turn her in, instead he offers to help her get revenge because he knows how corrupt these officials are. And he's curious about her and how far she'll go.

Second revenge is the man who SA'd her if I remember correctly. Instead of killing him, the eunuch uses his connections and has the official stripped to his skivvies and beaten up while in a burlap bag. They then sell him to a brothel and tell the madam that he'll claim to be a certain person, but to ignore him. Somewhere in all this they scar his face because the man is a narcissist obsessed with his own handsomeness. The madam knows what's going on and is happy to go along because of who he is.

That's as far as I got, but there are 2 or 3 men left after this point. The title is something like "scheming with the fake eunuch" or something like that. I'm pretty sure it has the word eunuch or revenge in the title 😅

Thank you for any help you can give me! I hate losing a show in the middle! 😤

I read this and was surprised because I saw the family dynamics, but not to this extent. I never once thought Song Lan destroyed a happy family when he found his best friend in Yi City being deceived and poor A-Qing being terrorized. Yes, Xue Yang was learning to human, but he never actually stopped manipulating and controlling the situations that happened there between the three of them. I love Xue Yang, he's one of my favorite characters, but I couldn't see him going full human just by being with Xiao Xingchen and A-Qing. He eventually got bored and was constantly pushing limits. No matter how much he was enjoying the new family dynamic he'd never had, he still manipulated Xingchen to the extent he did. His mind breaking at the end is because he didn't understand why Xiao Xingchen would take the fact he murdered his friend as hard as he did. (imho) He doesn't understand those kinds of emotions, and has no experience with them.

Also, the tragedy of Yi City was created by Xue Yang manipulating Xiao Xingchen, Song Lan did not start it.

So that's my 2 cents. Wondering if anyone else saw Song Lan's part in the break of the family dynamic and massacre at Yi City the way this person does?

Edit: When I say he was learning to human, I mean emulating what he saw XXC do then perverting it into the twisted games he played. He had first hand knowledge of what life could be like, but instead he remained fixated on doing anything was ok so long as he did it. XXC was a saint and XY wanted to take that from him and use him to do evil. XXC stopped playing and XY had a meltdown. He became even more obsessed than he already was and made Song Lan his new toy after he lost XXC. He added a few more bats to his belfry when XXC took his own life. I also think there was some of what XY thought might be a feeling like love, and that's part of why he reacts the way he does to XXC death, but it was just mad obsession. (Didn't make me tear up any less seeing it acted out in CQL, though.)

Looking for this vertical drama...

Opinions on Song Lan "crashing" the cute little family dynamic of Yi City?