Moonlit Beauty

The aloof beauty descends from his pedestal | Brothers fight over a wife | A switcheroo

When Xue Tanyu followed Qi Yan'an home to pay her respects to his elders, she felt inexplicably afraid of his older brother, whom she met for the first time, with his face cold as ice.

Qi Xunzhi, the most distinguished gentleman in Lingyang, was disciplined and courteous, with peerless beauty. Most importantly, he was solemn and reserved, and kept his distance from women, as cool and composed as a pine tree capped with snow.

At first, Xue Tanyu only wanted to use Qi Xunzhi to escape from his good-for-nothing, dissolute younger brother. After all, she already had a fiancé, but Qi Yan'an had gone south to Jiangnan, taken a fancy to her, and abducted her by force.

She tried everything she could, even nearly sacrificing herself, and finally got Qi Xunzhi to agree to save her.

On her wedding night, Xue Tanyu thought she would finally escape the strict rules of the Qi family and leave the cramped, box-like capital behind.

But the wedding banquet went ahead as planned.

It had all been a trick from the beginning. Qi Xunzhi had never intended to save her. He used his immense power to switch her out right under everyone's noses.

In the candlelit inner chamber, shadows swayed. The handsome man's face wore a smile she had never seen before, and the possessive gleam in his eyes was unmistakable.

Realizing she'd been tricked, Xue Tanyu tried to curse him and flee, but he easily caught her by the ankle and dragged her back.

A deep, resonant chuckle filled with a sigh sounded by her ear.

"Tanyu, you were the one who chose to come crashing into my arms..."

After provoking him, did she really think she could get away unscathed?

Second male lead's perspective: The wife I painstakingly stole from someone else was switched out from under me by my own big brother, the man I trusted most.

One-on-one romance: the heroine and the elder brother.

Theme: While the mantis stalks the cicada, the oriole waits behind