Moonlight in Secret

In public: A relationship of varying degrees of closeness In private: Secretly basking in the moonlight 1. Yu Xianghe and Bai Ning got together because of a mutually beneficial arrangement. They used each other, with no sincerity between them. Even when they called each other "wife," "baby," and "mommy," their apparent affection was only for show. Yu Xianghe had always believed she was the one in control of their relationship. It had never occurred to her that she might be the one to fall. It wasn't until their arrangement ended and Bai Ning left that Yu Xianghe realized in dismay that Bai Ning had been the one in control all along. 2. Yu Xianghe's love was like a kitten's tongue: it came with affection, but it could sting, too. Bai Ning thought Yu Xianghe had come after her just to save face. She did not believe Yu Xianghe truly liked her. She thought Yu Xianghe was only pretending to care, with ulterior motives underneath. That was, until she tried to drive Yu Xianghe away by saying, "Then get on your knees." She expected Yu Xianghe to get angry at being humiliated. Instead, she saw this: Yu Xianghe not only knelt up straight, but kissed the top of her foot. Original title: Don't Cry, Sister-in-Law * Her sister died on the second day after getting married. The two had entered a marriage of convenience and had no feelings for each other. They never consummated the marriage. * They are not on the same household registration booklet, either. * Neither character is perfect. Yu Xianghe and Bai Ning: On the surface: gentle and loving toward everyone & bookish and delicate In reality: selfish and hypocritical & starved for affection but resilient Blurb for the next book, Back to Auntie's School Days: Jian Hao fell in love with Tan Yanqing, one of her mother's friends. Since she was little, she'd heard that Auntie Tan had once loved someone when she was in school, but that person had broken her heart. After that, she'd closed herself off and never fallen in love again. On her seventeenth birthday, Jian Hao worked up the courage to confess to Auntie Tan. The outcome was exactly what you would expect: her confession was rejected, and Auntie Tan told her to go home and work through two more sets of past college entrance exam questions to get her head straight. Sent home, Jian Hao grew more and more miserable. She secretly drank her mother's red wine. When she woke up, she discovered she'd gone back to Auntie's high school days? A few days later, she had two questions: 1. Weren't Auntie Tan and her mother good friends? Why was the whole grade saying they didn't get along? 2. Who was the person Auntie Tan liked? Then she had two things to do: 1. Find out what was going on between Auntie Tan and her mother. 2. Find out who broke Auntie Tan's heart! (This one is very important.) A good friend had a child, and Tan Yanqing naturally became the child's godmother. But as the child grew older, Tan Yanqing found her more and more familiar. Jian Hao... Why does she look so much like that heartless girl who said she liked me in high school, then vanished without a trace the very next day?! 2024.8.9 Theme: Love because you love.