During the Jiajing period, in the Shen Mansion in Jinling, two sisters had a wrong marriage.
Sister Shen Qingyi, the eldest daughter, is as gentle and dignified as a white lotus under the moon. She is the perfect candidate to be the head of the house in everyone's eyes. My younger sister Shen Qinghe, the daughter of a concubine, is as lively and agile as a clear spring in the mountains, and never follows the rules.
In the spring of that year, Qinghan Juren Gu Mingxuan came to the mansion to teach. He has poems and books in his belly, and his eyes are clear. He said, "May I be like a star, a king like the moon, and I will cast different ripples in the hearts of my sisters."
One is a well-established engagement, and the other is a quietly stirring heart. When his parents ordered his sister to be betrothed to him, when his sister hid her worries and forced a smile - who would have expected that an imperial edict forced her to marry into Beijing on her behalf, leaving the whole house devastated.
The moon shines on the west wing, a misplaced love hidden in a deep house. The moon is the same moon. It shines on the west wing, the cloister, and the two hearts that are always separated. When the moonlight finally falls in the right place, do you still remember who stood under the peach blossoms in spring that year?
This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.
