When the Moon Rises

[Pure hate] [Rivals-to-lovers couple] [Some coercive romance] [Over-the-top angst] [Back-to-an-ex romance]

Spoiled heiress x Sharp-tongued young banker

Spoiled princess x Patient man

Le Fengyue x Zhou Mushi

Zhou Mushi is the third son of the Zhou family, owners of De Feng Bank, a banking dynasty with a hundred years of history.

Ever since he was introduced to the media at thirteen, everyone has thought his cold, indifferent temperament and eyes must have come from his mother, who is also known as an ice beauty.

His aloof, self-absorbed nature, built on money, family background, and exceptional looks, even gives people the impression that he is celibate and never goes near women.

So it comes as a surprise that he has a girlfriend who causes a scene at every opportunity: Le Fengyue, the notoriously bad-tempered eldest daughter of the Le family.

The paparazzi have captured Le Fengyue turning on him in public and walking off alone countless times.

And it's just as typical for Third Young Master Zhou to drive away expressionlessly without caring what happens to her before she's even gone far.

So the media understand and declare: "It's a business marriage. It won't last."

*

The day after her father dies in a car accident, Le Fengyue is kicked out of the house by her stepmother.

The trust collapses, the company is rocked by scandal, and her father's will turns out to leave her not a single cent.

Penniless, she is also saddled with a massive debt her father's company apparently owes her stepmother's family.

On the third day, her boyfriend Zhou Mushi becomes the boyfriend of her paternal half-sister, Le Fengyin.

*

Most of the time, Le Fengyue knows Zhou Mushi doesn't like her at all. He's with her only because of their families' long-standing ties and her inheritance rights in her father's company.

But Le Fengyue doesn't care in the slightest. Whatever the reason, all that matters is that she likes him.

Who says a forcibly picked melon can't be sweet?

She loves watching Zhou Mushi, that aloof beauty on a high peak, unwillingly put up with her and coax her despite his temper.

Then the world turns upside down, and the wheel of fortune comes around.

At first, she forces herself on him.

Later, he forces himself on her.

Le Fengyue thinks Zhou Mushi must be out of his mind. She's lost everything, and yet now he's the one clinging to her.

Also known as: My Ex-Husband Started Forcing Himself on Me After I Went Bankrupt (Not really)

■ Both leads are sexually inexperienced, one-on-one romance.

■ The heroine has a bad temper and is extremely willful! She's been making the hero's life difficult since childhood, and when she's broke, she keeps doing it with even more confidence.

■ The hero does not get together with the heroine's sister.

■ They both torment each other. They're a bickering couple.

Theme: Face adversity head-on.