As long as you enter the Eastern Depot, you’re guaranteed to have a group of people bring beautiful women right to you. Every eunuch in the Eastern Depot has three or four concubines. Even though they can’t actually have sex, just holding them while sleeping is still a thrill—truly the winners of life.

The Eastern Depot is so awesome, so naturally the selection process is extremely strict. Only the top ten super-elite students in each year’s final exams at the Eunuch Academy can enter the Eastern Depot.

But for Henry Clark, there was absolutely no hope.

Just how bad were Henry Clark’s grades? In last year’s year-end exams, with a total possible score of 500 points across five subjects, he scored a combined 40 points. He was simply the disgrace of the eunuch faction.

Of course, even with such terrible grades, you could still be assigned a job after graduation—sent off to do menial eunuch work like sweeping, fetching water, or carrying out chamber pots, never amounting to anything for your whole life.

But now, Henry Clark wouldn’t even get a job carrying chamber pots. He was going to die tomorrow, because he had gotten himself into a colossal mess.

A few days ago, Henry Clark was, as usual, wandering aimlessly away from the crowds in the woods, when he discovered a muntjac caught in a trap. He was so kind-hearted it was almost naïve, so he immediately tried to rescue it. But he didn’t have any tools with him, so he hurried off to buy some rope, plaster, and medicine, and then returned to the forest to set the muntjac’s broken leg.

But deep in the woods, he accidentally witnessed the second young lady of the Cui family having an affair with a man.

The Cui family was one of the most prominent clans in the entire Guangxi province, with vast fields and countless shops. There were at least seven or eight officials in the family, they kept hundreds of swordsmen, and had intermarried with the Beiming Sword Sect for generations—their power was immense.

The Cui family’s second young lady, Olivia Cooper, was a renowned talent throughout the provincial capital—beautiful, virtuous, and gentle, and also an outstanding female disciple of the Beiming Sword Sect. She was a great beauty, skilled in both literature and martial arts, with a reputation for purity and integrity, the dream woman of countless men.

The key point was, she was already engaged. Her fiancé, Edward Foster, came from the military aristocratic Lin family, was a young martial arts expert at the Nanhai Dojo, and after marriage would join the military, destined to become a pillar of the empire’s armed forces. The two of them were simply a match made in heaven.

Yet, the Cui family’s second young lady was having an affair with another man in the woods. When Henry Clark saw them, she was down to just a camisole and silk panties. Her fair, snowy skin made Henry Clark, this inexperienced youth, so nervous his heart raced and he could barely breathe.

Although Henry Clark didn’t make a sound, his heart was pounding like thunder and his breathing was heavy. The young lady’s lover was her senior brother from the Beiming Sword Sect, a highly skilled swordsman, so he immediately noticed Henry Clark’s presence.

At that moment, Henry Clark was so stunned he just stared. Suddenly, everything went blurry, and the lover appeared right in front of him and knocked him out. When Henry Clark woke up, he was lying on top of Miss Cui, who was disheveled and screaming for help—a scene that looked exactly like a eunuch assaulting a noble young lady.

In fact, Olivia Cooper and her lover had originally intended to kill Henry Clark to silence him. But there wasn’t enough time—the Cui family’s servants and her fiancé’s family’s warriors had already arrived, and Miss Cui didn’t even have time to get dressed. So they could only stage the scene to make it look like Henry Clark had drugged and assaulted her, while the lover became the hero who saved her.

Right then and there, Henry Clark was beaten half to death by the Cui family’s servants. If it hadn’t been for Instructor David Thompson leading the Eunuch Academy’s warriors in a bloody rescue, snatching Henry Clark from the blades, he would have been killed on the spot.

Of course, even after being rescued, Henry Clark didn’t last long. Overwhelmed by fear and with serious injuries, he died in the dungeon, only to be possessed by another Henry Clark from Earth.

But in the days that followed, both the Cui and Lin families kept pressuring the Eunuch Academy to hand over Henry Clark, even sending large numbers of people to besiege the academy.

Originally, for the sake of face, the Eunuch Academy would never have handed over Henry Clark. Even though the two noble families and the Beiming Sword Sect were powerful, the eunuch faction didn’t care. Henry Clark might be a loser, but he was their loser, and they would never let him die at someone else’s hands.

However, at this very moment, the pillar of the Cui family, Brian Cooper, managed to fight his way to become the Prefect of Yangzhou.

Although Yangzhou was just a prefecture, in terms of importance it might even surpass most of Guangxi province. The weaving bureau, shipbuilding office, and salt transport office—all eunuch-run institutions—needed the support and cooperation of the Yangzhou prefecture. And since Henry Clark was just a nobody, the Eunuch Academy chose to compromise and abandon Henry Clark.

Once Henry Clark was abandoned, it meant death. Being cut to pieces would be the least of it—the most tragic fate would be to be refined into a human elixir, and that was highly likely.

Of course, the fact that Brian Cooper became the Prefect of Yangzhou was something Henry Clark at his level wouldn’t know. All he knew was that he’d been abandoned, with no place to die in peace.

After recalling the whole process, Henry Clark thought bitterly to himself: “Olivia Cooper, you bitch, one day I’ll rape you, then kill you, then rape you and kill you again.”

It was just too much—framing a eunuch for assaulting a noblewoman? And besides, Olivia Cooper, are you really a noblewoman? Don’t you know yourself at all?

Of course, for now, Henry Clark could only curse her in his heart to vent his anger. The most important thing was to stay alive.

He didn’t want to die—he had to save himself.

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Chapter 4: Eunuch Faction Bigwig James Thompson