[Also known as: The Dust of Ages]
Wild black-moonlight girl like a weed x self-disciplined, principled beauty on a high peak
#Everyone Loves the Black Moonlight#
In the twenty-sixth year of Anqing, the largest miscarriage of justice in history, the "Azure Sparrow Case," brought down countless great clans in the capital.
The Zhou family patriarch, its mastermind, was beheaded in the marketplace. Consort Zhou took her own life. The clan's men were stripped of their titles and sent into military service, while all the women were made slaves. And so a powerful family fell from grace.
Years later, the Azure Sparrow Case was overturned.
The Third Prince, Xie Songfeng, had stolen evidence while overseeing the investigation, using the Dali Temple to eliminate political rivals and purge dissenters.
Yet the mastermind behind it all received only the punishment of "never being allowed to become crown prince."
In the second half of Xie Songfeng's life, he was made a virtuous prince. He championed the people and won the hearts of all under heaven. At a hundred years old, he passed away peacefully, revered for generations to come.
No one remembered the Zhou family, innocent victims of the case.
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Zhou Guanyue, a descendant of the Zhou family, disguised herself as a boy and spent sixteen years struggling to survive in a brothel with her mother. On her birthday, she watched helplessly as her mother hanged herself from a beam in the brothel, still registered as a slave to the very end.
She loathed the Third Prince from the history books, that man of moonlight and gentle breeze.
That night, Zhou Guanyue packed her few belongings and fled the brothel. While escaping, she stumbled into an abandoned princely manor.
When she opened her eyes again, she had traveled a hundred years into the past.
And become... Consort Zhou, who was about to marry Emperor Anqing.
Zhou Guanyue knew she had to prevent the Azure Sparrow Case from happening.
She would stop at nothing to avenge herself on Xie Songfeng.
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"I spent the first half of my life hating him, longing only to return to an age beyond my reach so I could devour his flesh and drink his blood. But amid the mournful wind, I bit down on the unbreakable bones of a gentleman and tasted the blood of a loyal subject that no wind could cool."
In short, this is a melodramatic love story where hatred turns to love.
Please note before reading:
1. A weed-like girl paired with a beauty on a high peak. The heroine is not a virgin, while the hero is. Overall, this is pretty unhinged.
2. The leads' names are taken from the phrase, "Gaze upon the moon in the water; do not blame the wind through the pines."
3. The heroine will marry the old emperor, then marry the hero after the emperor dies. (The emperor isn't actually that old, and he's quite handsome. A handsome older man type.)
4. The hero will fall for the heroine, but he won't take any concrete initiative in the early part of the story.
5. The heroine is a true black-moonlight heartthrob. Early on, she'll stop at nothing for revenge and may do anything, so proceed with caution if that's not your thing.
6. Everyone gets a happy ending.
Theme: Don't believe everything you hear.
