The Full Moon in the Night Sky

A gentle, composed, divorced violinist with a child x a youthful, daddy-smart, intellectually romantic dreamboat, a genius in artificial intelligence

*Older woman/younger man romance / mutual teasing and tension / two highly intelligent leads / size difference

Shu Qingyue has a fastidious sense of emotional purity and wants the most sincere kind of love. She cannot accept any betrayal, or being anything less than the only one in her partner's heart. As soon as she learns she was treated as a substitute, she decisively divorces her first love, whom she had been dating for years.

So what if her marriage failed? Shu Qingyue still has plenty of admirers. Her friends are eager to introduce her to men, and after being asked again and again what kind of man she wants, she only says, “You know, someone older than me. Not even a year younger.”

She won't date a younger man. She's afraid he'll be immature, that he'll be after her money, that he'll expect her to manage his emotions...

Shu Qingyue is a woman of principle. Even though that man is mature, emotionally stable, and has a lot going for him, and even though she's genuinely attracted to him, she can't help seeing him as a younger brother once she learns he's seven years younger than her.

Pei Ji is a genius. He started college at fifteen, and now, at twenty-one, he's already in his third year of a PhD program. With his striking looks and wealthy family, everyone says he's a once-in-a-generation talent, a natural-born leader with an unlimited future ahead of him.

But even someone like him has things he can't do anything about. In his case, it's his age. For the first time, he hates being so young.

On Pei Ji's twenty-second birthday, a junior student asks what he wished for: to do a postdoc at MIT, to launch a successful startup and become a leader in artificial intelligence in China and around the world, or to publish more papers at NeurIPS?

The birthday boy himself, expressionless and practically dead inside: “I wish I could somehow get seven or eight years older.”

Soon, rumors spread through his research group that their senior has gone crazy from his PhD, dreaming of traveling seven or eight years into the future so he can finish his postdoc, launch a successful startup, and make the Forbes rich list.

The rumor starts in his research group and gets changed there too. Soon, people are saying that twenty-two-year-old Pei Ji has a two-year-old daughter, and that the mother dumped him! He's a poor single dad! OMG! He's been hiding it all this time! Everyone feels sorry for him, but also thinks this is a little too much for them to believe. They'd find it easier to accept that Pei Ji has gone crazy.

Pei Ji can only laugh helplessly when he hears the rumor. Then he plays along with the image his labmates have created for him and acts pitiful. “They say you're heartless, that you seduced me and then abandoned me, leaving your husband and daughter behind.”

Shu Qingyue replies with a faint smile, “I could never abandon my daughter, but I did leave my husband.” She really did kick her ex-husband to the curb.

Now Pei Ji really does feel sorry for himself. He lowers his head and clings to her, looking aggrieved. “You know who I'm talking about.”

Shu Qingyue likes teasing him, but always has to comfort him right after. “All right, all right. So what should I do to prove I'm innocent and put these rumors to rest?”

Pei Ji curls his lips into a smile, wraps an arm around her waist, and whispers in her ear, “Big sister, be with me.”

At first, Shu Qingyue thinks Pei Ji is just a refined, aristocratic-looking graduate student without much money, who zips around campus and the surrounding area on a little electric scooter every day. That is, until she sees the million-yuan luxury car parked at the university gates, notices his seemingly unbranded but clearly bespoke suit, and receives a bracelet worth hundreds of thousands of yuan just because she casually mentioned liking it.

One day, everyone goes out together. Her ex-husband, unaware of the truth, deliberately sneers at Pei Ji: “Young man, you're so young and already don't want to work hard?”

Ignoring him, Pei Ji looks at Shu Qingyue, who's playing in the distance, and says tenderly, “I'm rich, even richer than all of you. What I want is her, for who she is.”

I love you, truly and completely, until death do us part.

[Reading Guide]

1. Seven-year age gap. The female lead has had other partners, while the male lead hasn't. The female lead has a very clever, adorable two-year-old daughter with her ex-husband, and she has custody.

2. The leads won't have any more children after marriage. They have only this one daughter, and the male lead treats her as his own.

3. They will separate for a few years later on. The female lead is the one who breaks up with him, but it has a happy ending!

4. Everyday romance, slow-paced.

Blurb written on February 24, 2026, and saved as a screenshot.

Theme: I love you, regardless of age.