Moonlight with a Price Tag

When Su Haitang, a third-year art student, stood in the lobby of a golf club clutching her crumpled resume, she had no idea that this job interview would completely rewrite her life. Season Chu, a rising business tycoon, lured her into a carefully arranged deal with promises to fund her artistic dreams and pay for her mother's surgery.

In an apartment decked out with crystal chandeliers, Su Haitang traded her body for a life of luxury, yet found herself speechless before a blank canvas in the dead of night. Wearing a diamond necklace, she crossed paths with Season Chu's wife, whose wrist was adorned with a jade bangle. She forced herself to look composed at a gallery opening, while her phone kept buzzing with debt notices and insults from his mistress. When an unexpected pregnancy became the final straw, she realized she was merely a tool for the man's money laundering, and that all his promises were as illusory as flowers in a mirror and the moon reflected in water.

From a gilded cage to utter disgrace, from a desperate abortion to fighting back against all odds, Su Haitang struggles amid love and hatred. Ten years later, when her paintings are exhibited at the Louvre, the man who once pushed her into the abyss stops there with his daughter. As their eyes meet, the mists clear, leaving only a single crabapple blossom stubbornly blooming through the years. This is a story of corruption and redemption, of betrayal.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.