The Young Uncle’s Moonlight

1v1 + redemption + forbidden love + ruthless power minister + cherished first love

After being widowed, she became the apple of her brother-in-law’s eye.

The Gu family fell, and all its splendor turned to ashes. With only her ten-year-old brother-in-law, Gu Yu, left alive, Yun Pei chose to stay. For ten grueling years, she made tofu and endured endless scorn, supporting the boy from the streets all the way to the imperial court. In return, his possessiveness only grew, along with his sharp tongue.

After Gu Yu placed first in the palace examinations and donned his official robes, the first thing he did was clip her wings. He mocked the tofu stall she struggled to keep afloat and ruined the chance of a match for her. When she tentatively tried to leave, he smashed a teacup and, eyes red, cornered her against the wall. “Yun Pei, you dare marry someone else?”

Later, he cleared his family’s name and rose to the highest ranks, yet at a palace banquet, he publicly declared in her defense, “All the honors and riches in the world are worth less than one person in my home.” He offered her a wedding procession stretching ten miles, washing away the humiliation she had endured for ten years.

Everyone called Yun Pei a seductress who had bewitched her young, famous brother-in-law. But no one knew that he was willing to wager his whole life to repay this immense debt of gratitude with the grandest love.

A debt of gratitude can also be a debt of love.