The third daughter of the Su family, Su Yuemian, is known as the most beautiful woman in Jiangnan. Though still young, she has already grown into a ravishing beauty, with alluring eyes and a graceful, seductive air.
However, when she was fifteen, her father met with disaster while serving in office, and her mother followed him in death.
The girl who had been raised in luxury was forced to live at the mercy of others. Even the childhood betrothal arranged for her was called off, and her uncles wanted to offer her to their lecherous superior to advance their careers.
The timid beauty spent her days weeping. With no other choice, she tried writing to her maternal grandfather in distant Chang'an for help. As luck would have it, her cousin was passing through Jinling on an errand for the Emperor and brought her back with him.
Her cousin was as bright and graceful as the moon, of noble status, and the dream man whom the noblewomen of Chang'an could only yearn for.
He was gentle and courteous to everyone. Only Su Yuemian, who spent every day and night with him along the journey, knew what a shameless side lay behind her cousin's noble bearing and splendid robes.
By day, he seemed sacred and untouchable.
At night, he shed the aloof gentleman's facade, his eyes darkening. “Did Mianmian look at Erlang one time too many today?”
“I told you, Mianmian's eyes should see only me.”
He gripped her delicate chin, his icy fingertips gliding over her cheek like a sinister snake's tongue. “Mianmian, do you love me?”
How, how shameless!
Mianmian blushed bright red and whispered, “We're only cousins...”
He straightened up and gently wiped the rouge from his lips with his thumb. “What cousin would let her cousin...”
“Don't say it, don't say it! I love you, Mianmian loves you most!”
His gaze brimmed with tender affection as he lifted her delicate hand and pressed a rewarding kiss to her palm. “Good Mianmian.”
Bonus scene:
At the Grand Princess's banquet, Su Yuemian sat off to the side, where the lantern light was dim, and sighed with a little frown.
She had been in Chang'an for half a year. The young men of the capital had their eyes on her, yet her marriage prospects were going especially badly. Her childhood friend, who had lived as a boy since childhood and inherited a noble title, had only recently arrived in Chang'an and knew nothing of the situation. She simply said, “They're blind. I'll marry you!”
But the Grand Princess's son glanced over from a distance with an unfriendly look. The childhood friend frowned. “Your cousin looks fierce. He really doesn't seem to like me.”
Mianmian sighed. What was she to do about her lover-cousin's jealousy?
Several young gentlemen had just come by one after another to ask for her hand. She had no idea which dark alley her cousin would drag them into and beat them up in once the banquet ended.
She looked pityingly at her foolish childhood friend. “Why don't you run away?”
“?”
Short bonus scene:
Her cousin sneered. The hunt began.
They ran, he chased, and they had nowhere to escape.
A pure, sugary sweet romance
A clingy, love-starved and possessive aloof beauty on the mountain peak X an obedient little beauty who is completely under his thumb
Theme: Love yourself before loving someone else
