Embracing the Bright Moon

My new novel next door, The White Moonlight Rejected by the Male Lead of a Redemption Story, is now underway! The blurb is below! In the second year of their marriage, Xue Yue asked Shen Qingzhao for a divorce. She had realized that their marriage was built on schemes and exploitation. Now that their love was gone, she thought he would let her leave. But instead, he imprisoned and humiliated her for an entire year. No matter how hard she tried, she could never escape his grasp. He locked her in a room, and night after night he chuckled in her ear: "Yue'er, I won't agree to a divorce. Just give in, and I'll treat you as gently as I used to." All he got in return was even more stubborn resistance. The more cruel he became, the less willing she was to yield. Her desperate, wretched days came to an abrupt end on the day Han Canglie returned to the capital. * Han Canglie was the youngest chief councilor in the court. Decisive and ruthless, even a casual glance from him was sharp and menacing, enough to make anyone tremble. Xue Yue felt gratitude and respect toward him... and guilt. She still remembered how, three years earlier, Shen Qingzhao had tenderly promised to marry her. She had answered earnestly, "But I'm already betrothed." He had said sympathetically, "To Han Canglie? I know. That betrothal was just a verbal agreement between our elders, with no token exchanged. Yue'er, everyone knows Han Canglie's reputation. He is not the right man for you." It was true. Han Canglie had killed countless people, and she was terribly afraid of him. Just looking at him made her legs go weak. Her parents were also very pleased with Shen Qingzhao, so they informed the Han family that the engagement was off. The steward came back and said that Han Canglie had silently nodded when he heard the news, then sent the young lady a generous gift. * No one knew that Xue Yue was the little bodhisattva in Han Canglie's heart. He had secretly loved her for years, his feelings deeply rooted, and had only been waiting for her to come of age so he could marry her. Sadly, the young girl loved someone else and felt nothing for him. He swallowed his pain and let her go. But after the girl he treasured married, that man surnamed Shen gradually revealed his snake-like, scorpion-hearted nature. "My lord, Shen Qingzhao has wronged Miss Xue for the sake of his new concubine." "My lord, Shen Qingzhao made Miss Xue kneel in the ancestral hall all night." "My lord, Miss Xue has lost the baby..." Han Canglie's heart was torn to shreds. He could no longer care about propriety or moral conventions, and stormed in to take her away. In a cold, desolate side room, he lifted her pale, frail body into his arms. "Yue'er, please... stop loving him." Will you be my wife? What others cast aside, he longed for. What others mistreated and made suffer was the treasure of his heart. Through countless sleepless nights, he couldn't help imagining the little moon he missed so dearly. A year later, the Marquis of Zhounan's household was implicated in a treason case, and the entire family was found guilty. In the dim candlelight of the imperial prison, Shen Qingzhao wept and begged for mercy until his voice gave out. Han Canglie stood outside the cell, his gaze bone-chilling and his voice demonic: "This is only the beginning." "The pain of having your wife stolen is unforgivable. I only hope, Marquis Shen, that you can bear what's coming." [Warnings and Highlights] 1. Female lead: virgin; male lead: not a virgin. The male lead is Han Canglie. 2. A sweet-and-sour little treat with a happy ending. 3. A self-indulgent short story, written just for fun, around 200,000 characters. April 24, 2024, Weibo My new novel, The White Moonlight Rejected by the Male Lead of a Redemption Story, is now underway! Add it to your collection and follow for updates! Ning Yao died a gruesome death. The pitiful man she had saved and tenderly cared for over many years came to hate her. He personally shattered her spiritual meridians and dissolved her body. Ning Yao: I'm grateful. I've finally been waiting for this day. * Ning Yao belonged to the ancient Bodhi clan. She was kind by nature, but had no heart. One year, she rescued a demon who had been tortured to the brink of death by cultivators of the Xuan Sect. She carefully cared for him, curing his chronic ailments and covering his body in old scars. She never looked down on him for his low status. She loved him wholeheartedly, always smiling as she held him and kissed him. Each time, Feng Jingzhuo looked at her with helpless tenderness, and his love grew deeper. The little Bodhi cured his crippled, hideous body, and healed his inferiority, self-loathing, sensitivity, and paranoia. How could he not love her with unwavering devotion, to the very depths of his soul? But Feng Jingzhuo didn't know that the Bodhi clan's path to ascension required them to help another attain enlightenment first. Only by dying and being reborn could they ascend. And Ning Yao's greatest wish in life was to ascend. That year, before her elder sister failed to ascend and went into hiding with her husband to live a blissful life, she pointed Ning Yao toward a clear path: "Yao Yao, our Bodhi clan is simply too lovable. Who would ever want to use us to attain enlightenment?" "If you still want to try, why not give that demon beast imprisoned by the Xuan Sect a chance? Those idiots don't know what they're looking at. He's a Cangyuan dragon." "If it works, great. If not... you can fall in love like your sister, all sweet and happy." Her sister said the Cangyuan dragons had a secret. When their feelings grew deep enough, scales would grow around their hearts to block their love. At that point, they would instinctively develop a desire to torture and kill the person they loved most. Kill their wife to attain enlightenment, ascend at once, and forget their past. It was the perfect solution for both. Ning Yao knew that scales had already begun growing around Feng Jingzhuo's heart. But he endured the pain of his heart being torn apart. He hid away, tore open his chest, and pulled out every scale that kept growing, then pinned down the hand that wanted to do evil with a bone nail, fighting against his dragon nature: "Yao Yao, don't come in..." "Please, please don't come in..." "It'll be over soon. Be good, don't come in..." Outside, Ning Yao thought: If both of us can ascend, isn't that better than neither of us ascending? She went in. As always, she held him and tenderly kissed his pale, trembling lips. * After an unknown number of years, Ning Yao was reborn and successfully ascended. She was very happy, though the deification ceremony was a little simple. The entire divine realm was too busy trying to stop the fallen god from activating the Reversal Array to do anything else. #Rumor has it that he was the most powerful god in the world. Ten thousand years ago, he accidentally killed his beloved wife, and from then on fell into the Infinite Hell, walked the Path of Avici, and crossed the River of the Underworld. #He tortured and ravaged himself until he was barely human, all to bring back a single spark of life in his beloved. Theme: Be brave and resolute in staying away from scumbags. Life can still be beautiful and brilliant.