Bright Moon (GL)

Synopsis:

Ji Zhaoyue, the daughter of a military general, has an honest and straightforward personality. After returning to the capital, she developed a dislike for Miss Xie Qingyan of the Xie family.

Xie Qingyan is a talented woman who pretends to be refined and elegant. Whenever she looks at Ji Zhaoyue, it makes Ji Zhaoyue feel like a bumpkin. Xie Qingyan’s words are always full of indirect insults, and the two are like fire and water. Ji Zhaoyue, being skilled in martial arts and agile, often bullies Xie Qingyan.

That is, until… one day, Xie Qingyan retaliated, and Ji Zhaoyue accidentally hit her head. She suddenly discovered that she was living in a storybook and was the villainess who constantly targeted the female lead.

The female lead of the story, Xie Qingyan, is a beautiful and tragic figure who is weak and defenseless. She has no parents and is bullied by everyone. In the later part of the story, unable to bear the humiliation, she eventually becomes twisted and corrupted. She uses her body as bait, moving between powerful and influential figures to take the lives of everyone who has ever wronged her. No one who bullied her survives, and the one who dies the most miserably is Ji Zhaoyue, the villainess who constantly targeted the female lead.

Ji Zhaoyue: …

No, if you weren’t always looking down on me, why would I have targeted you! Besides, what did I even do? I just secretly drew a pig in your poetry collection and snatched your candied hawthorn from the street. Why would it come to this?!

Ji Zhaoyue felt that Xie Qingyan was exactly as she had perceived—two-faced. She was furious but couldn’t help but pay more attention to her.

She then discovered that Xie Qingyan’s sisters always bullied her, and Prince Duan threatened her, wanting to marry her as a concubine. It seemed that besides herself, everyone else was genuinely bullying her!

After Xie Qingyan’s parents were killed by bandits, her life spiraled downward. She had to become a celebrated talented woman, excelling in poetry, prose, and all other arts, just to make her life a little easier. She had to silently please everyone so the Xie family would value her and she wouldn’t be looked down upon. She thought her life would always be this difficult, but who knew that the eldest daughter of the Ji family, who had always targeted her, would suddenly change her ways? When others spoke ill of her, she would jump out and protect her. Xie Qingyan was an orphan, while Ji Zhaoyue was the only child of a great general. From then on, Xie Qingyan had a powerful backer.

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One-sentence Summary: You are my bright moon, shining only on me.

Theme: Strive for success through your own efforts; don’t take the wrong path.