Embracing the Moon: Moonlight in the Clouds

Name: Embracing the Moon: Moonlight in the Clouds
Author: Apples Don't Like Meatballs

揽月：云中月明

by Apples Don't Like Meatballs (苹果不爱吃丸子)

Status: Completed
Length: 499k Words
Genre: Ancient Romance
Subgenre: Palace & Household Intrigue
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Cast aside in the mud, she is determined to climb to the clouds and drag down, one by one, everyone who wronged her. When she was six, her father divorced her mother with a single letter, abandoning Yun Zhongyue and her mother like worn-out shoes so he could curry favor with the powerful. Her mother wept until she went blind, and her little brother died on the road while searching for their father. Blood and tears taught her that kindness wins no mercy: it only turns you into dust beneath someone else’s feet.

Taking up her pen like a blade, she became “Master Yue,” the most mysterious literary talent in the capital. Powerful nobles were captivated by her stories, unaware that beneath her radiant prose lurked a hatred steeped in poison. Returning with vengeance in her heart, she watched coldly as the man who fathered her lived his “happy” life. Her target was her half-sister, who was about to marry into the Marquis’s household.

“Since you took everything from me, I’ll take the marriage you treasure most.” She laid her plans carefully, advancing one step at a time. Gu Changyuan, the Marquis’s legitimate son, was a man as bright and pure as the moon. Step by step, he fell into the web of love she had spun, believing her to be his kindred spirit. Her sister’s engagement was broken off, and she married into the Marquis’s household in grand style, completing the first step of her revenge.

She built their love nest on lies, yet amid the false sweetness, she gave him her true heart. When the truth came out, the love in his eyes turned to icy blades. “So it was all a calculated scheme?” Just as everyone turned against her, a calamity engulfed the Marquis’s household and pushed it to the brink. Its former glory was on the verge of collapse. This time, she would act not for revenge, but for redemption. Watch as, despite her frail body, she plans with cool precision, turns the tide in their darkest hour, and raises up once more everything she herself had destroyed!

This is a love story born of a plot. Can the most dazzling flower bloom amid the ruins of the truth?

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