The Sun Rises, the Moon Grows Full [Historical Romance]

[Coming soon. Blurb written on July 13, 2023, and screenshotted]

During the Wuqing era, everyone in the capital knew of the Hang family. The Hangs had twin sons: the elder was brave and valiant, while his younger brother was clever and wise.

As a boy, the eldest son, Hang Ji, followed his father to war. He earned his fame on the battlefield and, before he was even twenty-five, was named General Ningyuan.

The younger son, Hang Yue, was poisoned while still in his mother's womb, leaving him frail from birth and unable to practice martial arts for his entire life. Yet Hang Yue was exceptionally gifted. At eighteen, he came first in the imperial examinations and was appointed to the Hanlin Academy.

The Xia and Hang families had been close for generations. The Xia family was a distinguished scholarly household, and their daughter, Xia Litang, was gentle and refined, regarded as a model young lady.

When the Hang family matriarch was pregnant, the two families' wives arranged a marriage between their unborn children. Everyone knew the Hang and Xia families would become in-laws one day.

As the eldest son of the Hang family, Hang Ji was naturally assumed to be the one betrothed to Xia Litang.

But fate is unpredictable. Hang Ji was once ordered to lead troops south, and disappeared on the way. He never returned.

People lamented that heaven was jealous of great talent and assumed he had died on the battlefield, giving his life for his country.

As a result, everyone thought the engagement between the Xia and Hang families was over.

Suitors from all over came to ask for Xia Litang's hand, but the Xia family turned them all away.

Then, three years later, news spread that the Xia and Hang families were to become in-laws after all. But the man marrying Xia Litang wasn't someone else. It was Hang Ji's own younger brother, Hang Yue.

No outsider knew that Hang Yue had knelt for three whole days before his parents, begging to marry Xia Litang, before his mother finally relented and his father gave his approval.

He had followed his elder brother since childhood, knowing that Xia Litang was destined to become his sister-in-law, yet he couldn't help falling in love with her. While his brother was there, he knew he could never measure up and never once thought of competing for her.

But his brother had been missing for three long years. During those years, Hang Yue quietly stayed by Xia Litang's side, and the greed hidden in his heart grew along with him.

If Xia Litang was destined to marry someone else, why couldn't he take his brother's place and fulfill the marriage pact between the Xia and Hang families?

Who could have known that just one year after Xia Litang and Hang Yue married, Hang Ji would return to the capital alive?

[Reader's Guide]

The heroine has a romantic storyline with the older brother in the early part of the story, then with the younger brother later on. Both brothers love her throughout, and the younger brother is the male lead. If this bothers you, please read with caution!

Theme: The moon appears once the clouds have passed.