The eldest young master of the Pei family has a little secret: he's in love with the sweet, delicate young lady of the Wen family. But she doesn't know that and only sees him as an older brother, and an older brother from the Wen family's sworn enemy, no less. It gives Young Master Pei quite a headache...
What? He hears that the second young lady of the Wen family is going to marry her childhood sweetheart. Young Master Pei sneers. "Hah. Marry someone else? Not a chance."
In short, this is a sweet historical romance.
Reading guide: One-on-one romance, sweet and doting.
---Coming soon: The Powerful Minister's White Moonlight---
Shen Fuqu, daughter of the richest family in Yangzhou, is stunningly beautiful and a peerless musician. Suitors come in droves, but the one she likes is a poor scholar.
In Shen Fuqu's eyes, the impoverished scholar Lu Baiyu is handsome, talented, and wonderful in every way.
Except for one thing: he doesn't like her.
In her previous life, a twist of fate brought Shen Fuqu and Lu Baiyu together in marriage. She stayed by his side as he rose from a poor scholar to the pinnacle of power, becoming The Outcast, the prime minister who stood second only to the emperor.
They were married for decades, but she never managed to warm his heart.
Reborn, Shen Fuqu decides to set both him and herself free and find someone else.
But she never expected that in this life he would become prime minister early and arrive with a wedding procession stretching ten miles to ask for her hand.
"You said we would be together for all eternity. Even if there's someone else in your heart, you can't break your promise."
Shen Fuqu: "???"
Lu Baiyu knows that Shen Fuqu has a long-dead white moonlight in her heart, and that she likes him only because he looks like that person.
Only later does he realize that he himself is that white moonlight, and there was never anyone else.
One-on-one romance, both leads reborn, the hero must win back his wife.
Theme: Prosperity, democracy, civility, harmony, freedom, equality, justice, and the rule of law.
