Old Ashes, New Enemies

In their bleak childhoods, they were the faint light that kept each other going. Beneath a great tree at the sanatorium, they secretly made a promise as children. But a sudden upheaval tore them apart, and they lost touch for many years. When she returned to the capital, she was consumed by fury, carrying the weight of old grudges. Their reunion came at the wedding of his father's illegitimate daughter. She recognized the powerful man before her, but had no idea he was the old friend she had never been able to forget. He, meanwhile, had long mistaken another girl for the Bai Guangyue in his memories. Though he watched her with cold indifference time and again, he always found his heart unsettled by her when he least expected it. For the sake of revenge, she stayed guarded, playing along, using him, and keeping her distance. When the long-buried past finally came to light, all the mistaken identities, misunderstandings, hatred, and tenderness of their youth came crashing back. Could the moonlight they had lost long ago ever shine on them again?