The Moon in Broad Daylight

- An emotional, healing story with no logic and no polished prose. Feel free to come and go without notice.

- Contains some personal preferences.

- The older woman once had a leg condition.

- The younger woman is the main pursuer. (The perspective is mostly the older woman's, not to say the younger woman doesn't get her own perspective.)

- There is a role reversal. Mutual pursuit is what makes yuri the best.

(Characters, blurb, and initial outline archived on January 8, 2025.)

[A sensitive, proud, haughty older woman x a free-spirited, dazzling playgirl younger woman]

Blurb:

1. In the first 29 years of her life, Yu Qinian had only ever truly loved one person.

But on the very day Yu Qinian sat in a wheelchair for the first time, that person pushed her into the abyss with her own hands.

After that, Yu Qinian couldn't love anyone. She didn't dare to, either.

But Sheng Wan was an exception.

Sheng Wan was a flirt. Yu Qinian knew it. In their circle, she was a notorious heartbreaker: confident, bold, beautiful, and rich.

She flitted through a garden of flowers, leaving not a single petal untouched.

Yu Qinian resisted befriending someone like her, yet she genuinely loved Sheng Wan's distinctive aura, something that didn't belong to her.

She knew there was no way the two of them would ever cross paths.

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2. Later, on the night they slept together, Sheng Wan broke through her defenses and gently coaxed her. "It's dark now. The moon should be coming out."

Sheng Wan curled her little finger around Yu Qinian's like a playful child, making Yu Qinian feel damp all over.

Somehow her hand ended up at Yu Qinian's waist. How could such nimble fingers fail to undo a row of fastenings?

Yu Qinian didn't escape her, either.

At last, in the dead of night, when the moon was at its fullest, Yu Qinian became a moon belonging only to Sheng Wan.

She lay on the bed, her fingertips clutching sheets crumpled beyond recognition, feeling Sheng Wan move over her and caress the legs that for so long had been unable to stand.

She began to understand what was so special about Sheng Wan.

She was sunlight in the depths of winter, a ray of light reaching into a long tunnel.

She was salvation, a salvation meant only for Yu Qinian.

Yu Qinian finally understood that love should be warm. It was the warmth of lips touching, the lingering heat of an embrace as the tide swept over them, and the arms that caught her every time she fell again.

Love is a swamp: the deeper you sink, the harder it is to get out.

Theme: Believe in love.