The Duke's Estate's Stepdaughter by Adoption: Wu Wu is blessed with a delicate, flower-soft beauty, so tender and fragile that the young masters of the Duke's estate can't help staring at her.
Pei Huai of the third branch corners her beneath a rockery. “Wu Wu, you have no one to rely on now. If you come with me, I'll make sure you want for nothing.”
Wu Wu has no choice. Then she remembers her stepbrother, Pei Yanshi, the heir: a man as bright and pure as moonlight, with impeccable character.
Wu Wu turns to him for help, and Pei Yanshi does just as she hoped, dealing with Pei Huai for her.
Wu Wu thinks her dear elder brother truly is a dignified gentleman.
One day, after she'd had a little to drink, Wu Wu bows to Pei Yanshi. “Thank you, Brother. You're nothing like them. You're the most pure and blameless of all.”
Who could have guessed that her brother, as graceful as an orchid and a jade tree, would gently touch her cheek and murmur in her ear, “Wu Wu, I'm no different from them.”
Just as covetous, just as willing to do anything to possess her.
Pei Yanshi, heir to the Duke's estate, has always been self-disciplined, courteous, and as bright as a full moon. Still young, he already holds a high position. He is the moon in the heavens, the snow on the mountain peak, beyond profaning.
That is how he should have remained, pure and noble all his life.
But then Wu Wu lowered her eyes with a smile and wandered into his field of vision. In the jade-like gentleman, a dark possessiveness began to take root, little by little.
Theme: Plan before you act
