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 sick.

Beneath that respectable facade lies a secret affliction: the moment 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, and when she falls, she lingers in his arms a little longer. She watches his ears turn red and his breathing grow heavy as he struggles between his saintly facade and his humiliating desire.

The world believes she's the cold Commandant's lingering white moonlight, aloof, delicate, and in need of protection.

Xie Yuan believes it too!

She deliberately tempts him, watching the restrained, proper young Marquis Xie Yuan go mad for her, then suffer under the weight of propriety.

He sees her as his only cure, worshipping her with desperate longing.

How laughable.

What white moonlight?

She's a blade dipped in poison, a god of death come to claim the lives of the Xie family.

“Reader's Guide”

The heroine, Shen Shuzhu, disguises herself as a white moonlight. Clear-eyed and calculating, she leads the hero into obsession. The cure is also the poison. Two powerful players draw each other in, with no angst throughout. At the edge of a cliff between lies and bloodlines, they dance until death takes them.