明月迢迢

When she was young her hometown suffered a flood. Both parents and younger brother died. The orphaned Tiao Tiao was sold to the palace as a maid.

At that time, the queen lost her children one after another. The national teacher said that the queen lacked opportunities in her fate and should find a girl with a compatible horoscope to adopt as a daughter. Tiao Tiao was lucky enough to become a princess and was loved by thousands of people.

Nine years later, the queen already had a son and a daughter. The adopted daughter had long been forgotten in the deep palace and was pulled to be a pawn in the marriage between the two countries. She was full of worries and only dared to return to her hometown in the south of the Yangtze River in her dreams.

The palace was lonely. Tiao Tiao only dared to tell her worries to her third brother Yuwen Huai, who treated her very well. The emperor had been lying on the sickbed for many years. He was gentle and always treated her like his own sister.

“Don’t be sad, Tiao Tiao. One day, the emperor will personally fulfill your wish.”

Tiao Tiao agreed with a smile, but she also knew that the emperor was just coaxing her. How could an adopted daughter who was going to be sent to marry as a chess piece return to Jiangnan?

At the empress dowager’s birthday banquet, the princes and princesses gathered together to celebrate. Tiao Tiao drank a few glasses of wine, her face flushed, like a lotus.

Tiao Tiao made an excuse to go out for some fresh air. The moonlight was hazy, the lake was rippling, and the sound of the flute was melodious. She followed the sound of the flute and boarded the boat by the lake, but accidentally ran into the third prince and others who are conspiring to seize the throne.

The usually gentle brother was actually a shrewd and calculating person who played with people’s hearts. She panicked and almost missed a step and fell into the lake.

The boat was swaying, Tiao Tiao was dizzy and breathless, and the third prince, who was always sick in the past, held her waist tightly, making her unable to move.

With tears in her eyes, she said in a coquettish voice, “Brother.”

The third prince rubbed her slender waist with one hand and stroked her eyebrows with the other hand, “As long as Tiao Tiao is good, I am willing to do anything for you.”

Not long after, the eldest prince, who should have been the crown prince, made a big mistake. The emperor was furious and demoted him to a commoner. Anyhow, the third prince, who had been lying on the sickbed for many year finally showed his supremacy.

One day Tiao Tiao finally got what she wanted. After returning to Jiangnan, she soon met her ideal husband.

She was so happy that she only wanted to live in her hometown for the rest of her life.

On the wedding night, the beautiful lady was wearing red makeup, but her veil was lifted by a bloody sword. Tiao Tiao looked up and saw Yuwen Huai, who was covered in blood, with red eyes.

The gentle and considerate brother pinched her face, his eyes full of possession, “A Tiao, didn’t you promise your brother that you would not marry him?”

Tiao Tiao didn’t know that the sickly brother who was usually gentle to others had coveted her for a long time, but he didn’t dare to reveal his feelings because of the brother-sister relationship.

Until he saw her wearing a wedding dress and marrying another man, he couldn’t stand it anymore. What brother-sister relationship, his Tiao Tiao could only be his wife.