After Falling in Love with the Younger Brother of My White Moonlight

[Unaware of love, slightly scheming priest x Cunning strategist who hides his ruthlessness behind a gentle facade]

Three years after Yan Linjiang, the celebrated beauty of the capital, died, Jiang Rusu took in a man who looked remarkably like her lost love, sharing eight out of ten of his features.

The man claimed to be a merchant, though his story was full of holes, and clung to the debt he owed her for saving his life as an excuse to stay. After testing him several times, Jiang Rusu finally learned that he was the younger brother of her dead beloved, Yan Xingqiu.

That night, at the market where the northern tribes' troupe performed, his gaze was deep as he held out the longevity lock she had once mentioned in passing. He refused to believe the official notice saying she had died far from home.

"I've loved you since the first time I saw you," Yan Xingqiu coaxed.

"All right."

Jiang Rusu was moved without realizing it. She thought the lanterns were dazzling her, making her lose her senses and accept his confession.

The dead were gone; she should have stopped imprisoning herself in the past long ago. Yet just then, her lost love came back from the dead.

Jiang Rusu sensed something was wrong as she looked at Yan Xingqiu, whose personality was completely different from her lost love's.

Could he actually be my supposedly dead lost love, who faked his death?!

No one knew that the aloof beauty of the capital had kept someone hidden in his heart. He had spent four years in the city, and no matter how many portraits he painted, none could compare to that first glimpse of the real person.

He was nearly driven mad with longing.

He had faked his death to escape the emperor's suspicions. When he saw the woman he loved again, he could only lie straight to her face. So when Jiang Rusu finally agreed, he could only think it was a dream, like the countless dreams that had vanished when he woke.

He had finally managed to break through his beloved's wooden heart and grow closer to her, only to discover that someone seemed to have been hiding inside that unyielding heart all along.

Later, when he saw her again in a tent in Western Qiang, the man at her side filled Yan Linjiang with such jealousy that he wanted to cut open his own heart and show it to her.

What could he do?

He wouldn't let go, not even if he died. He would never leave her in someone else's hands.

Blurb dated 2024/8/28

[Reading Guide]

1. The setting is fictional, though inspired by real history. Please don't overanalyze it.

2. The male and female leads both have secret identities. There will be some "acting" early on, heh heh~

Theme: Pass down intangible cultural heritage and foster unity among ethnic groups.