The White Moonlight Becomes a Widow, and the Marquis with Skin Hunger Falls for Her

Everyone says the young Marquis Xie Yuan is refined and self-possessed, but Shen Shuzhu knows he’s ill. Beneath that righteous, dignified exterior lies a hidden affliction: whenever she touches him, he can’t stop trembling. So she makes a point of touching him. She brushes the back of his hand as if by accident, or lingers a little longer in his arms when she stumbles. She watches his ears turn red and his breathing grow heavy as he struggles between his saintly facade and his humiliating desires. Everyone says she is the cold military commandant’s lingering first love: aloof, delicate, and in need of protection. Even Xie Yuan believes it! She deliberately tempts him, watching the restrained, proper young Marquis Xie Yuan go mad for her, then suffer over the dictates of propriety. He sees her as the only cure, worshipping her with yearning devotion. How laughable. What kind of lingering first love is she? She is a poisoned blade, a harbinger of doom come to claim the lives of the Xie family. “Reading Guide” The heroine, Shen Shuzhu, disguises herself as someone’s lingering first love. She is clear-headed and calculating, while the hero falls hard and becomes addicted. The cure is also the poison. Two formidable people baiting each other, with no angst throughout. At the cliff’s edge between lies and bloodlines, they dance until death takes them.