Worship the Moon

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Story blurb

[Delicate Princess x Prairie Wolf Cub]

Selehe is a servant to the Second Prince of Yubei. When Yubei lost the war and the prince was taken hostage, Selehe went with him to Dazhao. Back in Yubei, he had been bullied and forced to live beneath others. He thought things would be no different in Dazhao, but the pampered Princess Kangning brought him back to the palace, gave him the name Chengfeng, and kept him by her side. She let him learn martial arts and serve her personally.

Selehe had always known that Gu Xi had ulterior motives for keeping him at her side, but he felt he had no other desire in his heart, either.

When the Second Prince nearly beat him to death, Gu Xi burst into the palace with her people and rescued him. In that moment, Selehe watched Gu Xi enter against the light, as if she shone with her own radiance, like the lofty, luminous moon above the vast prairie.

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When Gu Xi brought Selehe back to her palace, she never imagined that he would grow closer to her, step by step. But later, he left the palace and Dazhao, and Gu Xi never saw him again, until news arrived from the prairie that the young Wolf King had ascended the throne...

The young Wolf King was Selehe.

When Gu Xi heard the news about the Prairie King, she laughed. "I thought what came from the prairie was a horse, so I named him Chengfeng. I never imagined I'd gotten it wrong."

Later, Selehe came to Dazhao with Yubei's envoys. In front of the imperial relatives and nobles, he was grim and sinister. But when no one was watching, he quietly slipped into the princess's bedchamber and respectfully bowed to Gu Xi.

He asked Gu Xi, "Would you like to go to the prairie?"

The scent of the prairie on him and his gentle words drew Gu Xi in. She wanted to go, desperately. She had been sick of the palace for far too long.

So Gu Xi answered him, "I would."

The young prairie wolf narrowed his eyes. "Your Highness, the moon is the most precious and revered thing on our prairie. But you are the only one I cherish."

The prairie worships the moon, and his moon is Gu Xi.

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Upcoming story: My Heart Follows the River Willows. Please add it to your collection. Here's the blurb.

Zhu Tanzhen was reborn into another body, just as she was about to be made a permanent employee. Well, she could treat it like a gap year. The only flaw was that she had landed in the womb of a concubine. Zhu Tanzhen was terrified. According to modern online opinion, a daughter born to a concubine in ancient times had even less status than a modern wage slave.

So Zhu Tanzhen prepared to be a lazy good-for-nothing. But it seemed Heaven meant to carry its injustice through to the end: her mother suddenly died, and she was given a shocking marriage arrangement, to become a certain prince's secondary consort.

Zhu Tanzhen's eyes went dark. If she became a secondary consort now, that meant there would be a principal consort later. Could life get any worse? What was more, the prince was infamous. Rumors said he was moody and killed without batting an eye. Zhu Tanzhen sneered. She'd rather die than marry him... But could she really refuse? If she did, she'd lose her life.

Clinging to the faint hope that she hadn't done anything bad enough to deserve death and that Heaven might not be quite so cruel, Zhu Tanzhen climbed into the wedding sedan. Then she regretted it completely. The rumors weren't lies. She'd married a demon!

Every day, Zhu Tanzhen forced a miserable smile to deal with the demon, cursing him from head to toe in her heart while also finding time to think about how to escape.

But why was this demon getting kinder to her? And why had he suddenly handed over shops and farmland for her to manage? She had no interest in keeping accounts for anyone. Besides, accountants have a high chance of going to prison!

So Zhu Tanzhen roared, "Get these deeds and your paws off me!"

The demon from the rumors had tears in his eyes. "Wife, don't you want me anymore?"

Theme: Even when trapped, fight to rise and keep moving forward.