The Golden Moonlight Left Her After a Fling

Originally titled My Abandoned Horse Slave Turned Out to Be My Fiancée

Chen Nian’an is an unloved concubine-born daughter of the Minister of Rites.

Her birth father is cold, her birth mother doesn’t love her, and she was sent to the family estate in the countryside when she was young. Only when her legitimate elder sister ran away with a wandering martial artist just before her wedding did her father remember her and decide to make her take her sister’s place. He felt he couldn’t afford to offend that woman.

Chen Nian’an resents it. She hates being treated like an object people can manipulate, a puppet on strings, forced to marry a woman with overwhelming power and influence!

On the way back to the capital, she happens to save a slave. After washing up, the slave turns out to be stunningly beautiful, with a cool, aloof air and a serious promise to repay the favor. Chen Nian’an finds herself intrigued.

Using her life-saving favor as leverage, Chen Nian’an makes the other woman serve as her horse slave.

Life being waited on is so delightful that Chen Nian’an almost forgets she’s supposed to take her sister’s place in marriage.

As they near the capital, Chen Nian’an decides she’d rather be safe than sorry. Afraid the truth will come out, she drugs the horse slave, leaves her some money at an inn, and runs off with her servants.

She assumes it was just a brief affair, and that all she can do from now on is remember the days they spent in each other’s arms. But on her wedding day, she lifts the bridal veil and sees the woman in wedding clothes standing before her. Who else could it be but the horse slave?

Chen Nian’an: The sky is falling.

Xiao Yunjing is ambushed by one of her own while on an assignment. When she’s at death’s door, a delicate young woman saves her.

The woman wants neither gold nor silver. Her gaze wanders over Xiao Yunjing’s slender waist and long legs, then she parts her pink lips and gives her a job: horse slave.

How could Xiao Yunjing, the dignified Ninth Princess, ever have suffered such humiliation? She’s so furious she almost laughs.

Xiao Yunjing once considered killing Chen Nian’an. Unfortunately, Chen Nian’an is beautiful and knows how to play the victim, crying so hard that Xiao Yunjing can’t help softening toward her…

During their journey together, Xiao Yunjing has already sent a letter back to the capital refusing the marriage arranged by her elders, and is preparing to bring Chen Nian’an home as her wife. But just as they reach the capital, Chen Nian’an runs away!

Only then does Xiao Yunjing realize that not a single word a woman says can be trusted. All those declarations that she couldn’t live without her had been lies, meant to trick her into putting in more effort.

When they meet again, Chen Nian’an is dressed in her wedding clothes, sitting obediently on the bed waiting for her. She puts on the dignified air of a proper young lady, showing none of the bewitching allure she’d displayed at night.

Xiao Yunjing grips her chin and lifts her face, savoring the sight of her going pale. She smiles faintly. “Fancy meeting you again, Second Miss.”

[A story about a wicked woman who plays with another woman and then tries to run away]

[A story about an honest woman deceived in both body and heart]

[A flirtatious siren versus a poker-faced clean-freak with a love-addled brain]

[Setting: Women can hold office and marry]

Theme: Don’t toy with people’s feelings