Gathering the Moon

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My next book will be titled My Stepbrother Went Mad on the Day I Got Married. The blurb is at the very bottom. If you're interested, please add it to your favorites~

Blurb:

When she escaped the human traffickers' den, Jiang Xu took a fatal knife blow for her.

Before she died, the girl asked her to visit her family and gave her a jade pendant. Clutching the pendant, she set out to repay the girl's kindness by visiting her family, but fainted from the cold on the way.

When she woke again, she discovered that the jade pendant had somehow made her become Jiang Xu.

She had wanted to tell the truth, but the princess consort was frail and might not withstand such a heavy blow, so she decided to keep quiet for the time being.

Thus, by day she played the lively, cheerful Jiang Xu, while near dusk she went to the tomb where Jiang Xu's clothes had been buried and told her how she had come here. She vowed to find Jiang Xu's parents, explain everything to them, and leave.

One day, when she went to visit the tomb, she heard a noise behind a tree. When she went to investigate, she discovered that it was Jiang Xu's older brother, Jiang Xiyu!

Before she could think it over, a beast suddenly appeared, and he took her with him as they raced through the forest. But the beast caught and mauled her anyway. She had thought that cool and aloof Jiang Xiyu, as cold as jade, would not save her, but he did, taking all the blame upon himself.

She was amazed. He seemed so cold, yet she had never expected him to be such a gentle person. At the same time, she felt guilty toward him.

Thanks to this identity she had "stolen," she experienced the warmth of family. Even Jiang Xiyu had gone from being cold and distant at first to occasionally showing concern for her.

But this kindness had changed into something else in her heart.

At last, one day, she found her parents and decided to explain everything. But then she heard Jiang Xiyu say, his face expressionless and his voice as sinister as a ghost's, "You are not Jiang Xu."

This blurb was written on December 8, 2023, and revised on September 13, 2024. (Screenshot saved.) First published on Jinjiang Literature City.

DIVIDER

Next book: My Stepbrother Went Mad on the Day I Got Married

Shen Yurou followed her mother into a remarriage with a general and became the general's legitimate daughter.

Naturally lively, she was loved by everyone, except her stepbrother, Shen Yuzhou.

He was handsome, but solitary by nature. He treated her with neither warmth nor coldness, yet Shen Yurou liked him very much and followed him every day, calling him "Brother" again and again.

She kept him company on his birthday and brought him tasty treats and fun things. When he hid away because he missed his mother, she stayed with him and comforted him.

The golden sun fell upon her, making her shine brilliantly, like Fuguang illuminating the mortal world.

Shen Yuzhou's voice was like snow piled on bamboo, clear and hoarse. "Will you leave me too?"

Hearing that, she hugged him tightly and shook her head. "No. I'll never leave you, Brother."

Gradually, he began to smile at her. He protected her when she was bullied and taught her to distinguish right from wrong.

She thought their days would go on like this, but Shen Yuzhou was reclaimed by the royal family and became a prince of the current dynasty. Though she hated to part with him, she still smiled as she saw him off.

After he left, the general arranged a marriage for her. She did not want to marry, but gave in to her mother's pleading. Yet when the bridal veil was lifted, how could it be her brother?

After his mother's death, he became indifferent and detached, cold to everyone and beloved by no one.

He thought he would remain that way forever, until his stepsister, Shen Yurou, burst into his world like a ray of light.

Later, he realized that he had developed feelings for her that he should not have.

He wanted to suppress them, to keep them in check, but whenever he saw her, those feelings grew wildly like weeds, beyond his control.

Only when the royal family came to find him did he learn that he was not of the Shen family's bloodline.

When he parted from her, he did not dare look at her, afraid that if he did, he would be unable to bear leaving.

When he heard that she was going to marry, he gave a quiet hum, as if he did not care. But a few days later, he heard that she had been abducted on her way to her new husband's home, and that only an empty bridal sedan had reached the groom's family.

When he lifted the veil from the young woman on the jade couch, he stroked her face and spoke with infatuation:

"You said you would never leave me."

Having once glimpsed the sunlight, one no longer wants to be imprisoned in darkness.

Cool and solitary stepbrother VS bright, sunny stepsister

This blurb was written on September 12, 2024. (Screenshot saved.) First published on Jinjiang Literature City.

1. Not a real blood relation: the leads are not related by blood when they get together. Their childhood takes up only half a chapter.

2. Sweet romance, everyday life, pretend-raising dynamic, one-on-one romance, both leads' first relationship.

3. The tropes are somewhat old-fashioned and melodramatic. If you don't like that, please don't read.

4. Writing styles are a matter of taste. If this isn't for you, feel free not to read it. Thank you.

Theme: Step out of the darkness and move toward the light.