Brocade Robes Beneath the Bright Moon

She is the most awkward princess of the Ming dynasty. Born to a lowly mother, she treads carefully in the depths of the imperial palace.

He is the most mysterious guest adviser at the Jiangnan Weaving Bureau. Carrying a blood feud, he has endured in silence through ten years of darkness.

In the tenth year of the Wanli reign, the Empress Dowager tours Suzhou in the south, accompanied by Princess Ning'an, Zhu Yanyue. At the Lantern Festival, she meets the man who will claim her heart for a lifetime: Shen Yunjie, an adviser to the Weaving Bureau. They exchange lines over riddles and play music together in perfect harmony. She thinks she has found a kindred spirit, unaware that he has another reason for approaching her.

A corruption case involving a million taels of silver at the Weaving Bureau binds their fates together. Shen Yunjie holds the truth about her mother’s murder, while behind Zhu Yanyue stands the Ming realm she must protect. He is the son of a condemned official; she is a princess of the imperial house. He seeks revenge, while she seeks justice.

From the misty rains of Jiangnan to the storms of the capital, from the palace’s inner chambers to battlefields beyond the frontier, they are torn again and again between duty to their country and the love they share. When the old case is overturned and the truth revealed, they believe they can finally be together...

But they do not know that an even greater storm is brewing at court...

She is his trial; he is her fate.

In this life, may mountains and rivers be our betrothal and the sun and moon our pledge. All we ask is to hold each other’s hands and grow old together.