The Bright Moon Shines on Me

Please add my next novel, "After Forcibly Claiming the Untouchable Beauty," to your reading list!

Qi Mingle likes Wei Shu. She hears he likes refined, elegant girls, so she puts down her sword and takes up refined pursuits like blending perfume and brewing tea.

Qi Mingle thinks that one day, Wei Shu will come to like her.

But when an earthquake strikes and Wei Shu unhesitatingly protects the woman he loves, his moonlight, who is already married to someone else, Qi Mingle finally understands: some things don't work out just because you try hard.

Qi Mingle lets go of her obsession with Wei Shu, follows her father's arrangements, and marries Zhang Yuanxiu, the top candidate in the palace examinations.

Qi Mingle and Zhang Yuanxiu are strangers married by arrangement. At first, Qi Mingle has little hope for the marriage. But after they wed, she discovers that her husband is not only talented and handsome, but also gentle and mild-mannered.

Qi Mingle had planned to ask for a divorce if things didn't work out. But looking at her gentle, ambitious husband, she decides she might be able to make this marriage work.

When Qi Mingle marries Zhang Yuanxiu, many people think she's doing it out of spite.

Zhang Yuanxiu thinks so too, but he doesn't care. He has his own reasons for marrying her. If Qi Mingle ever regrets it and wants a divorce, he'll grant her wish.

But as they grow closer after marriage, Zhang Yuanxiu can no longer bear to let her go.

Bonus Scene:

The people who were waiting for Qi Mingle to regret her decision never imagined that Wei Shu would be the first to regret his.

In a dark alley, Wei Shu lies on the ground and looks up in a miserable state.

The gentle and courteous scholar who came first in the palace examinations is slowly grinding the hand Wei Shu used to touch Qi Mingle, his eyes glazed with a thin layer of ice. "Mingle is my wife. Please conduct yourself with propriety, Master Wei."

Next novel, "After Forcibly Claiming the Untouchable Beauty". Blurb:

Princess Mingwei is noble and dazzling, but also extravagant, dissolute, and domineering.

One day, she takes a liking to Zhongli Heng, the upright and aloof eldest son of the Zhongli clan. But he politely turns her down, saying he is already engaged.

Princess Mingwei doesn't say anything on the surface. Instead, she drugs him, then carries him off to bed.

After a night of debauchery, Mingwei props her chin up with one hand, smiles radiantly, and asks, "Heng, are you willing to marry me now?"

Zhongli Heng coldly puts his clothes back on, immediately breaks off his engagement, and marries Mingwei.

But not long after the wedding, Mingwei gets bored now that she has what she wanted.

Zhongli Heng's face is certainly handsome, but she'd tried the forcibly picked melon and it wasn't sweet.

Mingwei leaves him a divorce agreement and heads off to tour the mountains and rivers.

Half a year later, Mingwei finds another pretty young man and plans to marry him.

But on her wedding night, the man who arrives isn't the handsome young groom. It's her former husband, who should be thousands of miles away.

Zhongli Heng bows over the bed. In that moment, the man who's always been upright and aloof reveals a side no one knew about. "Mingwei, since you chose to provoke me, you should stay with me for good."

Zhongli Heng is gifted and intelligent. From childhood, he is raised to become the next head of his family.

From who he studies under, to whom he befriends, to whom he marries, everything has already been arranged.

For the first twenty years of his life, Zhongli Heng follows every rule to the letter and never steps out of line.

Until Mingwei barges into his life and shatters it all.

Zhongli Heng knows from the start that Mingwei has no heart, but he still falls for her with full awareness.

Then she abandons him.

Reading Guide:

Marriage before love | Forcibly claiming someone | Untouchable beauty turns dark | Reconciliation after a broken relationship

Theme: If it's meant to be, it will be. If it's not, don't force it.