The Bright Moon Reflects the Lotus

Wanwan is the most beautiful woman in Shengjing, born with a delicate, lotus-like appearance and skin as smooth as ice, bones as lovely as jade.

Unfortunately, her birth is far too lowly. Orphaned at eleven, she is taken in by the Jing'an Marquis's household. Countless sons of powerful families in the city dream of bringing her home, as a concubine.

Lu Jue, heir to the Jing'an Marquis, is as beautiful inside as out, like an immortal descended from the heavens. With an aunt who is empress and a cousin who is crown prince, he shines so brightly that no one in all of Shengjing can match him. So even though he has never been interested in women, he is still the moon in the hearts of the city's noble young ladies.

They are worlds apart. There is no chance for them to be together.

Wanwan has always hidden her feelings well. She has never spoken of them, nor dared to show even a hint in public.

Until one day, her grandmother suddenly announces in front of everyone that she is to marry Lu Jue.

The news sends the city into an uproar. Everyone starts digging into the secret behind this marriage.

Wanwan goes to see Lu Jue of her own accord and asks nervously, "Since Cousin doesn't want this, shall we go to Grandmother together and call off the engagement?"

To her surprise, Lu Jue frowns almost imperceptibly. "You're not me, so how do you know I don't want it?"

*

On the first night after their wedding, rain falls outside the window.

After a flash of lightning, the man sleeping beside Wanwan suddenly reaches out and covers her ears.

Thunder follows close behind.

His broad palm blocks out the rumble. She doesn't wake, only lets out a soft whimper and burrows further into his arms, murmuring in her sleep, "Husband..."

Lu Jue lowers his head and kisses her forehead. "Sleep. I'm here."

[Cool and gentle x sweet and charming]

[A secret crush comes true + mutual devotion]

2020/10/3

Coming soon: Vermilion Rouge on Young Buds

[Sickly-sweet and deceptively obedient x refined, true gentleman]

Nian'an is five when she is left to wander the streets. The young Pei Huan takes her home, and she becomes his sister's adopted daughter.

Her adoptive mother is frail, so Pei Huan teaches her to read and write, to understand the ways of the world, and never to be afraid of anything, because her uncle is there for her.

After her adoptive mother dies, Nian'an and her uncle, Pei Huan, depend on each other.

Later, when Pei Huan is about to leave for Shengjing to sit for the imperial examinations, Nian'an is anxious every day. He smiles and tells her, "Don't be afraid. Your uncle will take care of you for the rest of your life. I won't abandon you."

Nian'an takes those words to heart. But it turns out that Pei Huan's idea of "the rest of your life" isn't the same as hers.

When she says the same thing to him, he only gets angry. He coldly tells her to stop indulging in wishful thinking and even plans to marry her off to someone else.

Nian'an has learned her lesson.

On the eve of her engagement, she casts aside every lesson he taught her and uses herself to make Pei Huan break half a lifetime of restraint and propriety.

Nian'an asks him, "Do you still want me to marry someone else, Uncle? You said we'd be together for the rest of our lives."

Pei Huan, Imperial Tutor, is upright and dignified, dazzlingly talented, and widely regarded as a paragon of gentlemanly virtue. He has spent his whole life with propriety etched into his bones.

The only outrageous thing he has ever done is marry the girl he raised for more than a decade, the girl who used to call him Uncle.

On the day of their grand wedding procession, he also falls from his pedestal. Pei Huan bears the infamy of defying propriety for years.

Yet one day, when a friend asks whether he regrets marrying her, Pei Huan is silent for a moment, his eyes filled with endless tenderness. "I only wish I hadn't raised her by my side. If we'd met later, perhaps she wouldn't have had to suffer so much because of me."

His friend is stunned. Then, by the window inside, Nian'an wakes from her nap and softly calls out, "Shiqing... Uncle..."

[Ten-year age gap; the romance begins after the heroine comes of age]

[The heroine is genuinely obsessive; the hero goes from doting on her to loving her]

Coming soon 2: A Sprig of Spring

[Alluring, bewitching black lotus x scheming, deep-thinking powerful minister]

When Shengjing falls overnight, Shen Rongyin goes from a marquis's legitimate daughter to the descendant of a disgraced official, sentenced to serve in the entertainment quarter.

Once the untouchable First Beauty, now she is within everyone's reach.

On the night she is put up for sale, someone pays a high price for her, intending to send her to please the most powerful man in the new dynasty, Regent King Lu Yuan.

The man wields enormous power and has killed countless people on the battlefield. Rongyin can't help worrying for her life.

But that night, with candlelight flickering, they meet.

She thinks Lu Yuan looks familiar, and Lu Yuan... thinks she looks familiar too.

*

When Rongyin knew him, he wasn't called Lu Yuan. His name was Qi Heng.

But the entire Qi family was exiled six years ago. Rongyin never got the chance to see him one last time before hearing of his death. They never even found his remains, and she wept in heartbreak for a long time.

But now her dead former lover has come back from the grave. The question is:

Should she cling to this expired golden thigh or not?

*

Six years ago, the Qi family was falsely accused of embezzling military funds. Marquis Shen's silence was the last straw that broke them.

The family was destroyed during their exile. Qi Heng escaped death by a hair, changed his name to Lu Yuan, and rebelled against the country.

Their circumstances have since been turned upside down. Lu Yuan never expected that woman to be so reckless as to try to use their old relationship to blackmail him.

She feigns seduction, her face like a lotus and her voice like an oriole's song. "Your Highness, either keep me by your side forever, or... kill me to silence me."

Lu Yuan's hand closes around her slender neck, a cold smile on his lips. A little more pressure, and this woman would be dead on the spot. Then everything would be settled, and he could have some peace.

But even Lu Yuan never expected that one day, when he was gravely wounded and on the brink of unconsciousness, the only person on his mind would be the fussy little woman in his household.

He hadn't given her a title yet. What if someone bullied her when they thought he was gone?

So once again, he uses every last ounce of strength to crawl out of the sinister depths of hell and climb to the highest position in the world, then presents her with a phoenix crown and wedding robes.

*

Looking back, Lu Yuan wonders: Was revenge for his family really the only thing that kept him alive through mountains of corpses and seas of blood all those years ago? Or did he also want one last chance to see her?

To see whether she had shed even a single tear for him. One tear from her would have been enough for him.

Theme: What you cannot forget will surely find its way back to you