Spring Moon Over Yujing

A historical romance in advance, A Record of Cheng Huan. The blurb is at the very bottom. Please add it to your collections, dear readers~

Blurb for this novel:

She is a touch of spring in Yujing, unwittingly teasing the moon.

He is the finest moon in the world, scheming carefully to gather spring into his arms.

[Cool, calculating, famed general + X + clever, peerlessly beautiful young lady whose family was wiped out]

Twelve years ago

Chen Keduan, Vice Minister of Revenue, was framed and his entire family executed. Only two-year-old Chen Moyu was lucky enough to escape.

Twelve years later

A graceful, otherworldly young man named Su Mo arrives in Yujing. He is staying at the former Imperial Academy Physician's residence to find work, but Murong Lang, the Great Zhou's foremost general, knows there is more to him than meets the eye.

At nightfall, Su Mo changes into dark clothes and steps out into the courtyard. Suddenly, he senses someone watching him from the roof above.

He looks up and sees a man beneath the moon, his face as cold as a still pool and his gaze icy.

“Murong Lang!” Surprise flashes in Su Mo's eyes.

Murong Lang, however, is feeling playful. He dangles the sachet Su Mo lost, its tassel swaying back and forth beneath it, as if taunting him and announcing that he knows Su Mo was the one who trespassed in his father's study!

“If that's the case, there's no need to bother hiding it anymore!” Anger rising, Su Mo swiftly removes his face covering. In the moonlight, the young man's skin is as luminous as snow, and his eyes sparkle like stars.

Murong Lang's heart skips a beat!

The night wind stirs the leaves with a rustling sound. The two gaze into each other's eyes, neither saying a word...

Tonight is the Qixi Festival.

Two years later, at Diecui Convent.

The air around them suddenly grows thin. Seeing Chen Moyu in her monk's robes, addressing him as “Benefactor,” Murong Lang's face darkens like the sky before a storm.

“What? Miss Chen left Yujing only recently, and already you don't recognize me?” He suppresses his anger and asks sourly. Seeing Chen Moyu make it quite clear she wants nothing to do with him, he can hardly resist dragging her onto his horse without a word, taking her back to his residence, tossing her onto the bed, and having a proper talk with her about “Benefactor” and “this humble nun.”

“Miss Chen, don't tell me you're pretending not to hear me? You seduced me, abandoned me, and now you're acting like nothing happened?” Murong Lang challenges her.

Chen Moyu freezes. “Seduce and abandon you?” When did she do that? And what did he mean by acting like nothing happened? Murong Lang is talking nonsense, so she assumes he has come to make trouble and turns to leave.

How could Murong Lang let her get away so easily? He steps closer as he continues, “You took my body and stole my whole heart, then tossed me aside and came to become a nun in this convent! Is that the law you've laid down, Chen Moyu?”

P.S.:

1. The leads are both clever throughout, and their push-and-pull romance runs through the whole novel.

2. Political intrigue + romance.

3. One-on-one romance, both leads are each other's first and only, happy ending.

4. The story unfolds gradually, so please be patient at first. Once the leads leave the capital, the pace picks up.

5. Updates every day or every other day, with no hiatus or abandonment. Feel free to add it to your collection.

***Blurb for the upcoming novel A Record of Cheng Huan. Please add it to your collections, dear readers.***

“Lord Shen, the mortal world is a net that ensnares and ruins the lovestruck. The day a young gentleman awakens is the day he attains Buddhahood.”

“Abbot Miaohui has never entered the mortal world, so how can you claim to have seen through it? If you have never tasted love, how can you know you won't enjoy it so much that you forget to return?”

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At Daci'en Temple, Shen Xi looks at the group of young ladies standing in the courtyard and feels a headache coming on. They are supposedly here to be selected as Buddhist maidens for the Empress Dowager's eightieth birthday, but every one of them is dressed to the nines, as if applying to become his, Shen Xi's, wife.

One young woman is particularly outrageous! While all the others wear official-style skirts and blouses, she alone is dressed in simple monk's robes. Relying on her lovely face, she goes without makeup and stands aloof and alone, playing the part of an otherworldly beauty to perfection. But in Shen Xi's eyes, she is far too calculating.

“Eunuch Wang, that young lady certainly has a clever plan!” He points at her from afar with the handle of his fan and says to the eunuch beside him. “Too bad that trying to scheme against me is a poor choice! I won't let her have her way! Whoever her father is, send her home!”

“Uh... Lord Shen, she isn't a young lady from an official's family who came to be considered as a Buddhist maiden. She... she's the abbot of Daci'en Temple, the nun Miaohui!”

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On the day of the Empress Dowager's birthday, with only an hour before the Buddhist ceremony begins, the two central figures are nowhere to be found.

The royal nobles and court officials are all seated when Miaohui finally rushes into the hall, looking flustered. Her face is flushed, her lips are swollen, and she is still catching her breath. A few strands of hair hang loose from beneath her monk's hat, and there is a red mark behind her ear.

Lord Shen follows behind her, his gaze seemingly glued to her. His collar is disheveled and his jade crown sits askew. Most astonishing of all, around his neck hangs the string of prayer beads Abbot Miaohui never goes anywhere without...

Male lead: Shen Xi, Vice Minister of Rites, with the looks of an immortal and a flirtatious nature.

Female lead: Cheng Wanning, the Miaohui abbot of Daci'en Temple, daughter of a treacherous minister, with a cool and distant bearing.

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P.S.:

1. One-on-one romance, both leads are each other's first and only, happy ending.

2. A lighthearted, sweet romance, with no schemes or brainteasers. Perfect to read over a meal.

The above blurb was posted on 2023.01.08 and screenshotted for my social media.

Theme: The heart finds its way to where it belongs.