Wen Heng is the most refined gentleman in the capital, the Wen family’s perfect adopted son, or so it seems. Only his adopted younger sister, Wen Yue, knows that her brother, who goes around with a look of “I’m terribly worried about you,” is a possessive maniac who sticks pins into little effigies of anyone who comes to propose to her.
“Yue’er, someone else tried to take you away again today.” He gently pins a new crescent-moon jade hairpin in her hair, then casually destroys her third engagement. “Your brother is heartbroken.”
Wen Yue looks at the new gold chain around her ankle and sighs. “Brother, that’s your third one this month. The Junior Minister of the Court of Justice already suspects our family has bad feng shui.”
When an old case from the northern frontier is reopened after seven years, a scholar writes in blood, “I will come marry you.” Wen Heng finally tears away his refined mask, revealing the madman beneath. But just as he locks Wen Yue inside a gilded cage encrusted with jade, she seriously suggests, “Why don’t we solve the murder first? The dead are harder to deal with than the living, after all.”
Wen Heng: “...”
Later, the entire capital sees that the resourceful young Master Wen is perfectly willing to let his adopted sister lead him around by the nose: investigating cases, solving mysteries, and even falling in love along the way.
“Your brother is protecting you.” He strokes the gold chain around her ankle, only for her to clasp a matching silver bracelet around his wrist. “Then Yue’er will protect you, Brother. A fair trade.”
He had caged her as the moon in his palm, but she became the light that illuminated his abyss. Two little foxes who each thought they were controlling the other eventually surrender to each other in love.
[What it looks like: My crazy brother locks me up / What’s really happening: We’re playing a game of who can save the other first]
[He carefully weaves a web, she calmly takes it apart, and in the end he discovers he’s the one caught in it]
