Folding the Moon

Sorry, I've replaced the original idea.

Feel free to take it as you like.

Competitive x haughty

Ruan Shu first met Pei Yanzhi at the Zhaoxue Terrace.

At the time, the hall was filled with elegant, refined young men, but when the eldest young master Pei Yanzhi appeared, they all paled in comparison.

A peerless talent, cultivated with care by a century-old aristocratic family, as pure and cool as the moon.

Ruan Shu fixed her eyes on Pei Yanzhi at first sight.

Because the person she hated most had always acted aloof, yet even they had lost their composure at the sight of Pei Yanzhi and admired him beyond measure.

After suffering a humiliating defeat one day, Ruan Shu suddenly came up with a plan.

She would make Pei Yanzhi bend to her will.

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Pei Yanzhi had never once given Ruan Shu a second glance.

He did not exactly dislike her. It was just that people like her, who seemed not to compete on the surface but made every move with a plan, were everywhere.

Even when she tried every trick to tempt him, Pei Yanzhi only watched with cold indifference.

But whenever he turned her down, Ruan Shu never got angry. She simply smiled at him gently, though her eyes looked as if she were about to cry.

The next time they met, she would approach him again, cautiously.

Like a little cat that had been hurt but still couldn't help seeking affection, she was truly pitiful and adorable.

Later, when she accidentally fell into the water, Pei Yanzhi did not refuse to marry her.

He had to marry someone eventually, so it made no difference who.

Three days before the wedding, Pei Yanzhi went to find her with their marriage contract in hand.

From behind a flower-covered swing frame, he heard the young woman complain in exasperation: "So she likes someone else. Then I don't want to marry Pei Yanzhi either!"

Pei Yanzhi's eyes turned icy as he crushed the jade cup in his hand.

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As the eldest legitimate son of the Pei clan, a family of generations of high-ranking officials, Pei Yanzhi had been outstanding in his studies since childhood and was well-versed in the classics and histories. He was regarded as the very model of an aristocrat.

He was the center of attention wherever he went.

When news of his marriage to Ruan Shu spread, everyone was in an uproar, and they all placed bets.

The marriage would surely be called off within three days.

And so it was.

Only the one who called it off was not Pei Yanzhi, the lofty and peerless eldest young master of the Pei clan, but the obscure Ruan Shu.

And that was not all.

This cool, distant young gentleman, always as pure and upright as a bright breeze and clear moon, changed completely. He would stop at nothing to take her back to his side.

Even though Ruan Shu claimed she had a new love.*

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A little clarification:

The female lead is actually very willful and competitive, but she pretends to be an innocent, helpless little white flower in front of the male lead, then gets caught out.

The male lead saw through her long ago, but whenever she puts on an act, he just brainwashes himself. And, well, that's how things go.

Theme: Stay alert around things that seem too good to be true