Marrying the Chief Minister as His White Moonlight

The neighboring novel, "Shipping Everything Will Only Ruin You!", has started serializing. If you're interested, feel free to check it out!

[Synopsis]

Bai Shuangyue is an overlooked concubine-born daughter of the Bai family.

With barely any servants to wait on her, she often goes hungry. Unwilling to spend every day with an empty stomach, Bai Shuangyue frequently slips out of the walled compound and heads to a quiet, unassuming teahouse.

There's a kind young gentleman there who always gives her sweets to eat.

Waving a folding fan, the handsome gentleman watches Bai Shuangyue eat with a gentle gaze and asks why she always comes to the teahouse hungry.

"I won't be coming anymore." Bai Shuangyue sets down the pastry in her hand. "The chief minister has come to ask for my hand. My father says he's a vicious, immoral man, and he can't bear to let my legitimate older sister marry someone like that... so if someone has to marry him, it might as well be me."

The handsome gentleman folds his fan, his gaze darkening.

*

Lu Muzhi became chief minister before turning twenty. He has seen countless intrigues at court, and people constantly condemn him as ruthless and immoral.

But he knows that in one person's eyes, he has always been pure and untainted.

For years beyond counting, he has waited for Bai Shuangyue in a secluded teahouse, wearing the same air of noble refinement as he watched her grow from a young girl into a graceful beauty.

When she lowers her head and says she has to marry the ruthless, immoral chief minister, Lu Muzhi nods. "He will indeed marry you."

It is hard to defy one's parents' wishes. Dejected, Bai Shuangyue says, "If he treats me badly..."

Lu Muzhi's throat bobs. His gaze turns inscrutable. "He will treat you very well."

A kindhearted, principled, innocent concubine-born daughter x a calculating, secretly ruthless chief minister

[The neighboring novel's synopsis] "Shipping Everything Will Only Ruin You!" A modern-day sweet romance!

In her senior year of college, Lin Zhiming joins a reality show about academic prodigies and their growth for the prize money. She never expects to reunite on the show with her first love, Shi Yu.

Four years have passed. Shi Yu is still the adored golden boy, basking in the spotlight.

Meanwhile, she is the quiet, aloof academic genius of the rumors. No one would ever imagine that these two, so far apart, were once together.

But both of them still seem unable to let go of what happened back then. After being assigned to the same study group, they keep taking subtle shots at each other.

During a game, they're asked which matters more, talent or hard work. Lin Zhiming answers, "Talent. My ex-boyfriend broke up with me because his grades were bad and he was afraid it'd affect his genes."

Later, asked what motivates him to study, Shi Yu smiles. "My ex-girlfriend broke up with me because my grades were bad. After that, I got into Huada and have been top of my major ever since."

The production crew: Are you two putting on a whole serial drama here?

Unexpectedly, after the show airs, it goes viral as an academic-prodigy dating show. Lin Zhiming and Shi Yu's "reputation couple" turns out to be packed with countless sweet moments, sending them straight to the top of the ship rankings.

A viewer comments, "They look like they're constantly bickering, but don't you think Shi Yu responds to every single thing Lin Zhiming says? Everyone, how can you not ship them? I'm already completely hooked!"

Lin Zhiming: "..." Shipping everything will only ruin you!

■ A fake tsundere, genuine bookworm, science whiz heroine

■ A seemingly scheming, secretly lovesick hero from a wealthy family

(The full synopsis is in the author's note in Chapter One!)

Theme: Keep your original aspirations and act with integrity.