Forbidden imperial tales (Jia dao gong li de nan ren)

During the Ching Dynasty, all pretty Manchurian girls at the age of eighteen were drafted by law to the palace to be selected by Empress Dowager to serve the Emperor. Zhu, unfortunately, is among them. Her boyfriend Fu tries to obtain news about her in Beijing but to no avail. One day he encounters Liu-The-Knife and is told that there is one way to enter the Forbidden Palace: if he signs up voluntarily to be “married” to the palace. He realizes too late, however, that he has to become a eunuch and therefore has to be castrated ...