After Turning Dark, the Disabled One Marries Their Moonlight

[Disabled, darkening female lead × gentle, principled male lead]

A Fu, the beloved youngest daughter of the prefect's family, harms someone out of jealousy and later pays for her mistake.

At thirteen, afraid of bringing trouble upon her family, she leapt from the newly built tower her father had commissioned and broke her legs. With her reputation ruined, she was sent to recuperate in the mountains. Often resentful and prone to outbursts, she became a madwoman with only an old servant for company.

Five years later, Ning, the young man she had once loved and whose life she had affected, returns from the capital. Hearing that she is still young yet living alone in the mountains, he takes pity on her and proposes marriage.

In the fifth year of A Fu's recuperation in the mountains, her parents send someone to fetch her. They tell her that a man is willing to marry her, and that they have already accepted his proposal.

A Fu refuses. If they make her marry him, she says, they might as well hang her now.

Relatives and friends take turns trying to persuade her: With a reputation and a body like hers, she should be grateful anyone would have her, especially the most renowned young master in their city, Master Ning. She ought to be burning incense in gratitude.

Ning Biheng of the Ning family comes from a distinguished clan. Upright from childhood and well read, he placed first in the highest imperial examination at seventeen. After five years navigating the capital's officialdom, he has now returned home in glory, with a brilliant future ahead of him.

A Fu sneers: He must have gone mad. He wants revenge, to humiliate me, to make sure I meet a miserable end.

Others are astonished: Young Master Ning is famous for his kindness. He would never do that.

Though she resists with all her might, A Fu is ultimately forced into the bridal sedan.

When he was young, Brother Ning was gentle and refined, and always smiling. He was the man she loved, the one she used to pester with books in her arms, begging him to teach her.

Who knows what kind of monster Ning Biheng has become now?

P.S. Neither lead is perfect. The female lead has harmed someone, has a bad reputation, is disabled in both legs, and has a bad temper. The male lead is as pure and bright as the moon, a good man in everyone's eyes, but in truth he has psychological problems.

Theme: Two people who have shut themselves away in darkness turn together toward the light.