I Was Once His Brother's White Moonlight

After catching her fiancé visiting a brothel, Yu Qinghuan angrily called off their engagement. But knowing her father and brothers were dead, he drugged her and tried to force her into submission.

In a panic, she fled into a dark room and hid in a cabinet, only to stumble into the arms of a strange man, who clamped a hand over her mouth and held her tightly.

The pursuers outside were murderous, their blades flashing. They clearly weren’t looking for her. Yu Qinghuan’s whole body was burning and her consciousness was slipping away. Just as the man was about to leave, she grabbed his sleeve and threatened him in a trembling voice:

“You’re injured.”

“Help me, or I’ll call for help.”

The darkness remained silent for a long while. Yu Qinghuan choked out, “Please... please.”

After a reckless night, Yu Qinghuan hesitated before leaving the only valuable thing she owned, a jade hairpin.

Not long afterward, her brother, who had been gone for ten years and was presumed dead, suddenly came home. Yu Qinghuan gazed at the familiar yet strange figure and excitedly threw herself into her brother’s arms. But the moment she looked up, her heart gave a jolt.

Her brother looked... just like the man from that night.

Yu Shuchen was exceptionally gifted. He left home at a young age to become an official in the capital.

While secretly investigating a case on orders, he accidentally exposed his identity and was chased into a brothel. There, a woman cornered and entangled him. He thought it was just a fleeting affair, something he would soon forget.

But... the woman began appearing in his dreams night after night. As time passed, her face began to merge with his little sister’s. To avoid trouble, he decided to marry his little sister off.

One day, his mother happened to spot the jade hairpin the woman had left behind and asked in surprise, “I gave that to your sister as a coming-of-age gift. How did you end up with it?”

Yu Shuchen’s fingers paused. He nearly snapped the hairpin in two.

Yu Qinghuan felt her brother had changed. When he first returned to the capital, he had gone around arranging marriage prospects for her, but one by one, they had all come to nothing.

On her birthday, she drunkenly poked Yu Shuchen in the chest and complained. In her haze, she failed to notice the gloom and chill in his eyes.

That night, she received a gift from her brother.

The moment she opened the wooden box, her drunkenness vanished in fright.

It was... the jade hairpin she had given away.

[The heroine is adopted, so they are not related by blood]

Theme: Love at first sight