Silk Entwined

[Chasing His Wife to the Crematorium] [Reunion After a Long Separation] [Mutual Healing] [The White Moonlight]

A gentle yet resolute daughter of the principal wife, his white moonlight, vs. a ruthless, taciturn, cold young general

In the thirteenth year of Yunhe, beneath the Yun'an Tower in the capital, a white horse and its rider swept past like a gust of wind, blowing the gauze from Lan Yin's eyes. Lan Yin had suffered from an eye condition since childhood and could not see. When she was six, she went out to pray for blessings with her father's concubine, but was abandoned along the way. She drifted to Dujiang and lived there for ten years.

Ji Linyue held the gauze in his hand and looked up toward the tower, searching for its owner.

In the tenth year of Yunhe, Ji Linyue was targeted for assassination by political enemies. He fled to Huaihua Town in Dujiang, where the blind girl Lan Yin saved him.

Ji Linyue's thoughts churned. A maid helped Lan Yin down the steps. Her vision was unclear; she could only make out the young general's handsome outline, his sword-shaped brows and starry eyes. His face was unfamiliar, and she could not see the sorrow in his eyes.

The gauze in his hand was clenched into his palm in an instant. It was her!

"Miss, your veil."

A familiar voice reached her. Lan Yin tried hard to open her eyes, but that voice...

Was it him?

Lan Yin had never seen Ji Linyue's face, but she could never forget his voice. "Young Master, have you ever been to Dujiang?"

"Never." He returned her veil, and the sound of his horse's hooves soon faded away.

During the half year Ji Linyue spent recovering in Huaihua Town, Lan Yin cared for him attentively. He watched the orphaned Lan Yin, who never blamed the world for her eye condition, gradually dispel the gloom in his heart. Yet he carried the burden of a family feud, and they both hid their feelings for each other.

With their parting imminent, Ji Linyue gave her a hundred taels of gold to repay her for saving his life and ensure she would want for nothing for the rest of her life. From then on, they would owe each other nothing.

Lan Yin accepted the gold and made just one request. "Could I... touch your face?"

Ji Linyue agreed. Her fingertips were soft and cool. When they touched him, he clenched his fists and fixed his burning gaze on her face. He let his reluctance and tenderness pour out without restraint, but Lan Yin could not see him. Her fingertips explored his features inch by inch, silently committing his outline to memory.

After Ji Linyue left, Lan Yin returned to her former solitary life. Later, Ji Linyue secretly sent people to treat her injured eyes. Though she could not see as well as an ordinary person, she gained the ability to perceive light and color. When she went outside, however, she still had to cover her eyes with a veil to shield them from the light.

Three years later, her clan found Lan Yin and brought her to the capital, not to let her enjoy a life of comfort, but to entangle her in a plot. The young man's voice beneath Yun'an Tower lingered in her mind. After that, on the clan leader's orders, Lan Yin often attended banquets in the capital. Whenever she was alone with Ji Linyue, she would drop hints and test him, but his responses shattered her hopes.

At a flower-viewing banquet, Lan Yin did everything she could to win first place. She wanted no gold, silver, or jade ornaments, only the chance to touch the face of the young marquis, Ji Linyue.

She cupped his face in her hands, confirming that he was the person who had spent every day with her in Huaihua Town. Tears ran beneath her veil. "You took advantage of the fact that I had never seen this face and called me Third Miss every day. You knew exactly who I was. Why didn't you acknowledge me?"

"What difference does it make whether I acknowledge you or not?"

"After you left back then, did you ever return to Huaihua Town?"

"Never." Ji Linyue turned to leave.

"My father has promised me to Prince Ning, and we will marry before the end of the year. If you still remember what we shared in Huaihua Town, would you come and drink a cup of wine at Third Miss Lan's wedding?" This was her last test, and her last attempt to win him over.

"I wish you..." Ji Linyue swallowed all his bitterness.

Lan Yin left with her heart turned to ashes, and her veil fell to the ground.

On the day of her wedding, Prince Ning's residence was surrounded and attacked. The man leading the troops was none other than Ji Linyue.

Later, afraid that Lan Yin would not be able to see him clearly at night, he deliberately chose to consummate their marriage during the day. Lan Yin exposed his real motive, but Ji Linyue answered with a straight face, saying that nighttime was nighttime and daytime was daytime, and they were not the same. Then he took the veil he had picked up that day and kept safe, tied it around Lan Yin's wrists, and pressed his lips to the corner of her eye, moving lower and lower...

"Lan Yin, I want you to see me clearly!"

Reading Guide:

1. Someone injured the female lead's eyes, but they will heal later.

2. One-on-one romance, both leads have had no previous partners.

3. The blurb was screenshotted and archived on March 28, 2025.

Theme: Live well.