The Powerful Minister's White Moonlight Has Returned

After returning to the capital with her father, who had been posted away, Jiang Yan felt terribly guilty. It was because, while fiercely arguing with her stepmother against an arranged marriage, she had made up a very convincing lie. She claimed that the boy next door, Chu Zhuoyan, had taken a liking to her years ago. If they forced her into marriage, they should watch out, or someone might use her to fill a well. Now she was back in the capital, and she had no idea whether she would end up at the bottom of a well. In front of a crowd, she unexpectedly bumped into him. Jiang Yan braced herself and went over to greet him, forcing herself to say her name: "It's been years, Young Master Chu. How have you been? I'm Jiang Yan, your neighbor from next door." Chu Zhuoyan gave her a scornful look. "I've had neighbors who threw themselves into wells, neighbors who hanged themselves, and neighbors who were heartless and played with people's feelings. Which one are you?" Jiang Yan had no idea what time had done to the aloof, easily embarrassed boy he used to be. From then on, she avoided him whenever possible. When she was unlucky enough to run into him again, she could only pretend to be a fragile, pitiful little flower who'd been cast aside, sighing to her friends, "Things change, and the past fades like clouds and smoke. There's no need to bring it up again." Chu Zhuoyan turned down the beauty the host had offered him at the banquet, accepting only an ancient jade instead. "I'm a sentimental man." Jiang Yan thought the whole thing was finally behind her and quietly began looking for a husband. At the Hundred Flowers Banquet, she told a scholar in white, "Don't believe those rumors, Young Master. I've never been engaged to anyone, and I've never given my heart to another man." Chu Zhuoyan pulled the scholar in white away, pinned Jiang Yan against the wall, and said, "Didn't you say I'd taken a liking to you long ago, and that you'd marry no one but me, hmm?" They say the Dali Temple Minister's first love has returned. Every unmarried woman in the capital is waiting to see how it plays out. Chu Zhuoyan is a ruthless schemer who loves filling wells with human bones. How could he possibly like a woman? And if he really did, would he keep quiet about it for eight hundred years? That woman is a liar. Sooner or later, she'll end up in someone's well! But as they kept watching, the liar didn't die, and all the people who secretly bullied her ended up at the bottom of wells instead? How could someone as cruel and vicious as Chu Zhuoyan join the cabinet at such a young age, then spoil that liar rotten? Waaah, we're sorry! If we'd known, we would've gone for him ourselves! Handsome guy, look at me! I'm good at cooking and needlework, and I'm especially good at stirring up trouble! A naive little beauty who weaponizes her good behavior X an arrogant, tsundere, secretly lovestruck minister who refuses to confess Theme: Love is bravery