I Woo the Bright Moon

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[This is a sweet romance. The blurb doesn't tell the whole story.]

A Luo grew up in a sect hidden in the wilderness. She assumes someone else's identity and marries Zhuge Qing, the son of a military governor.

On their wedding night, she drinks osmanthus dew laced with an aphrodisiac.

But the groom says coldly, "Don't use that stuff again. I can't stand the smell."

Their nuptial cup ceremony, naturally, never takes place.

So A Luo burns osmanthus incense every day.

Who would have guessed that just as she comes out of the bath one night, someone would suddenly push the door open and barge in!

A Luo hurriedly clutches her clothes tight and tells the newcomer, "T-today, I haven't burned any incense yet!"

Zhuge Qing's expression darkens. "You don't need to go out of your way to tell me. I'm not here to sleep."

Later, A Luo accidentally drinks a bowl of soup. Unable to resist, she sidles up to Zhuge Qing and asks softly, "Could I... 'use' you for a bit?"

Zhuge Qing's eyes darken. "What did you say?"

She swallows, her dewy, peach-blossom eyes fixed on him, and repeats earnestly, "I'm feeling a little hot, and a little cold. Could you... hold me for a while?"

Later still, A Luo loses a stretch of her memories and becomes the princess of the current dynasty.

On the eve of the selection of her consort, a rebel army fights its way all the way to the capital...

Zhuge Qing returns, consumed by ambition, and becomes a pawn his father had discarded and then taken up again.

He doesn't mind a political marriage, nor does he mind the rumors of his new bride's beauty and romantic past. Their marriage is merely a bond of mutual benefit, after all, and he can cast her aside when necessary.

But he calculates everything and fails to foresee that the person he regards as a pawn will become the one variable he cannot control.

Only after she dies does he learn that she wasn't a noblewoman from an aristocratic family, but an impostor...

Later, Zhuge Qing's army reaches the imperial city, but is held outside the suburbs for months.

It turns out a princess has emerged at court, constantly performing good deeds and acts of charity. The people rally to her, the provincial authorities pledge their support, and dukes, nobles, and marquises compete to marry her.

A dynasty that had been little more than a heap of loose sand somehow gains a few more years of life because of her.

His strategist worries, "The tide of battle may turn against us!"

Zhuge Qing sneers. "She's merely imitating my wife's old tricks, like Dongshi frowning in imitation of Xishi."

Yet on the night he secretly investigates the area around the capital, he sees that "copycat" princess. Her face is unchanged, her features as vivid as ever. She looks exactly like the wife whose body he has searched for so long...

P.S.:

[A wild, carefree woman who stays true to herself and charms without knowing it x an ambitious, restrained man who hides his true nature]

Both leads are sexually inexperienced. Happy ending. Romance and plot are about 7:3.

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"Let me have a kiss!"

Amid the bustle of the banquet, young Shen Ruoyi shoves Yin Heng, who is about as tall as she is, up against a flower bed. Her voice is childish, her tone audacious and matter-of-fact.

Yin Heng's eyes go wide. In his dark pupils, he sees a pretty, fierce little pink dumpling.

He wants to refuse, but his face turns red and he can't squeeze out a single word.

"Mwah!"

Shen Ruoyi gets her wish. She's delighted, but forgets about it in the blink of an eye.

Yin Heng, however, has been annoyed by girls ever since that day.

Years later, Shen Ruoyi goes to the capital and gets into danger. A handsome, tall young general surnamed Yin rescues her.

She gives him her name and thanks him, silently noting that he could be a candidate for her future husband.

Looking down at her mud-smeared face, he suddenly sneers. "Shen Ruoyi, so this is what you've come to."

With that, he turns and leaves, abandoning her where she stands.

After that, neither of them gives an inch.

It isn't until Shen Ruoyi learns that Yin Heng has never been willing to meet any women because of the kiss she forced on him as a child that she feels a rare twinge of guilt and goes to his home to apologize.

But Yin Heng won't let it go.

"Let me have a kiss." His gaze is dark as he stares at her lips. "Then I'll forgive you for what you did back then."

Shen Ruoyi freezes. Just as a bewildering flutter rises in her heart, laughter breaks out around them. She realizes this is just another one of his acts of revenge.

She blinks, rises onto her tiptoes, and presses her cherry-red lips to his cheek of her own accord.

"Yin Heng, you're even better to kiss than you were as a child!"

After that day, she removes Yin Heng from her list of prospective husbands for good.

Yin Heng also begins meeting eligible young women. He treats everyone with consideration, but acts as if Shen Ruoyi doesn't exist.

Shen Ruoyi thinks they have finally settled their old score.

Until the day she wears her phoenix crown and embroidered wedding robe to marry someone else.

On her wedding day, Yin Heng, who should be stationed at the border, bursts through the door in full armor, covered in blood.

[A daring, lively, black-moonlight heroine who is naturally flirtatious and never overthinks x a guarded, restrained hostage prince who is stubbornly in denial and falls in love too late]

P.S.:

Both leads are sexually inexperienced, happy ending. The leads are adults from the start. A bittersweet romance.

Theme: The people are the foundation of the state.