When Xiao Tingzi first started following Ye Zao, he was just moved.
He was very young when he was sent to the Imperial Household Department, and after enduring a surgery, he started working after several months of recovery.
Being too small and weak, he couldn't handle heavy tasks. But the Imperial Household Department was a place that devoured people.
Eunuchs, having no family lineage, were worthless. Not being able to work meant there was no food to eat.
Even though everyone was a eunuch, all missing a part, people are just peculiar that way.
There's no mutual sympathy, but rather it's easy to bully the weak.
When Xiao Tingzi was assigned to look after the dogs, he was actually very happy; he no longer had to suffer harassment and beatings from the other eunuchs he lived with. He could have his own room and eat his fill, it was truly like paradise.
At that time, the mistress was still a concubine, not even to be called mistress, but just addressed as "Miss."
