The Moon Rises Over Liangzhou

"Drunk on Love" is complete: What do you do after sharing a love potion with your mortal enemy?!

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Blurb >>> What do you do when your fiancé catches you after you faked your death?

After her family was massacred, Chu Xiao fled to the borderlands. She went from a young lady of the capital to the proprietress of an inn in Liangzhou, in the western desert. For ten years she kept her secrets close, moving between the underworld and the world of the living, far from the people and affairs of the capital.

Unexpectedly, a treasonous conspiracy stirred up a storm from nowhere, and by a twist of fate she managed to seriously offend the new general from the capital.

Everyone said General Song was cold and ruthless, intolerant of even the smallest offense. Since Shopkeeper Chu had provoked him, she was sure to pay dearly.

Yet, in a military tent late at night, Song Xian merely stared at her without blinking. "Shopkeeper Chu, aren't you worried your fiancé will mind you meeting another man in the middle of the night?"

Chu Xiao paused, then replied with easy composure, "You're joking, General. I don't have a fiancé."

With a sharp crack, Song Xian crushed the porcelain cup in his hand.

Song Xian gritted his teeth inwardly. She really has forgotten me completely!

Song Xian was born into the Lin family. He made a name for himself at a young age and, before he was even twenty-two, had earned the golden armor of a general. The emperor bestowed his own surname upon him, granting him unrivaled glory. But in those ten years, there was only one thing that had truly made him happy: reuniting with her in Liangzhou.

Song Xian consoled himself: It was a good thing she didn't recognize him. She had always treated him like a younger brother, but now he could stand beside her as a man.

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Chu Xiao thought their bond had grown from weathering hardships together into love. She never expected the day would come when she discovered Song Xian's true identity.

The feelings she'd buried came surging to the surface. Weeping, Chu Xiao was about to set off for a place fraught with danger. Acting on a selfish impulse, she pushed him, delirious with fever, onto the bed beneath the gauze curtains and let herself indulge in one reckless night with him.

The next morning, Song Xian woke with only a hazy mind. He heard that she'd run off again, and vaguely remembered her tear-soaked lashes and the broken tremble in her voice. His face turned deathly pale.

...Had he forced himself on her?

Chu Xiao decided to play along, distancing herself from him and pushing him away to keep him out of danger. But he clung to her like a plaster, determined to make amends, and she couldn't shake him off.

Once everything had settled and his memories gradually returned, Song Xian finally came to his senses.

He backed her toward the window step by step, then lowered his head unhurriedly. "What are you afraid of?"

"You were so bold that time, weren't you?"

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Their love, once only beginning to show, sank deep into their hearts. In the end, they protected the people of the region and stayed until the moon rose over the city walls, shining down on Liangzhou.

Reader's guide:

1. Three-year age gap.

2. Set in a fictional world. The story's maps, large and small, are all in the strange and treacherous borderlands.

3. The hero recognizes the heroine not long after the story begins. The plot and romance are equally prominent. Set during a time of chaos, and very sweet.

4. The previous blurb was finalized on 231206, and the new one on 240315. Screenshots are on Weibo.

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[Love after drinking first | spoiled young princess X secret crush comes true | young general]

Upcoming blurb:

Li Li, the young Princess Chaohe, grew up surrounded by luxury and affection. She loved spring breezes and peach blossoms, and everything in her life went smoothly.

The only thing that ever bothered her was her mortal enemy, Yun Jian, the legitimate son of a general's household.

He was arrogant and unruly. They had been at odds since childhood, and whenever they met, they would fight.

But then came a flask of mistaken wine and one reckless night.

When the usually flamboyant young man woke up groggily, he bashfully turned his face away. "Today! Today I'll ask my father to come propose marriage!"

Li Li couldn't believe her ears. "...Who knew you were such an old-fashioned stick-in-the-mud?"

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Her aunt, the Grand Princess, had told her that men were treasures, and the more she collected, the better.

Li Li decisively turned down the lavish red betrothal gifts Yun Jian had brought to her door, then turned around and started getting close to a newly appointed top scholar.

Unexpectedly, the drug in that wine could flare up again without warning.

First, in the wilds of the mountain villages where the new policies were being introduced.

Yun Jian, covered in blood, fought to bring her out of a den of wolves.

They tumbled into a cave and landed in a pile of straw. Li Li was shocked by the deep, bleeding gashes on his arm, but the young man pulled her tightly into his embrace, his dim eyes filled with barely suppressed rage and hurt.

"You took the drug too. Are you really going to let him cure you?"

Later, on the day after the Shangyuan Festival.

Yun Jian vaulted over the high wall into her courtyard. The flower lantern he'd made with his own hands still hung beneath the eaves.

The heartless young princess was curled up beneath a pear tree, with a half-finished sachet and the Khuyang young khan's betrothal scimitar beside her.

He gave a self-mocking smile, then stepped forward and picked her up. "You only told me yesterday that you liked me... Princess Chaohe, you're so broad-minded. You can fall in love with anyone you meet."

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Yun Jian was born into the high-ranking household of a general. Handsome and dashing, full of youthful spirit, he was the most dazzling prodigy in Chang'an.

The young man knew little of sorrow, but he knew two kinds of pain.

First, the girl he'd loved since childhood saw him as her mortal enemy.

Second, she refused to marry him.

Theme: A noble man upholds kindness and righteousness, fearing neither heaven nor earth.