[Chinese BL novel] Return of a wealthy White Moonlight / 豪门白月光归来

Title: Return of a wealthy White Moonlight / 豪门白月光归来

Author: 橘子舟 / Tangerine boat

Year of release: 2021

# of chapters: 52

Status: Complete

Tags: family dispute, amnesia, mpreg

*title, names etc. are an MTL version, not an official translation

Summary:

Xia Wei originally had a happy family, until it was found out that his father derailed and led an illegitimate child into their house, feeling obligated to the mother and son. Xia Wei's mother whose heart was crushed left with Xia Wei and lived abroad where she slowly died from depression. But one day Xia Wei wakes up in a hospital with no memories of the past few years. He remembers how he fought with his family, how he cared for his mother, but just few years of memories were lost. Now that he's back he's facing his hypocritical family, the illegitimate son who wants to steal everything from him and a high-profile person he fell in love with rather quickly.

Storyline:

The story is cramped and not developed well, it was obvious that at the ending the author either was tired of it or didn't know what to do, in the end it was just wasted like that.

Basically, the story starts with Xia Wei in the hospital where he wakes up, at the get go he was accompanied by Xiao Chengyuan, a man of unknown status. Xia Wei doesn't remember last few years, what he did. He comes back home to find out that the house his mother built for him with care and it had most of mother's heritage to him was occupied by the illegitimate son who only dreamt that XW won't return before his b-day and they will announce him dead and everything will belong to him. But fate was different, XW used his hobby as one who likes filming and vlogging to return home and have a scandal which uncovered Xia Linhan's status as someone trespassing. Xia Linhan previously stole XW's fiance and also while XW was gone worked hard to win all his friends over. Previously XW was known as a soft-spoken person, but since he came back he changed in the eyes of everyone. Also he's not just a person of Xia family, but most wealth is actually his mother's and he inherited it. Later he has several face offs with XL, due to XL also taking filming and mostly copying XW's style. As well as XC comes into XW's life and XW finds out that he fell in love with the man rather quickly, later he finds out that XC was part of his past, not only that, they were already married abroad. Knowing the reason for XW's loss of memories he strategically involved himself into XW's life to slowly get back together and slowly uncover what was in the past.

The story itself is short and holds not much. It's not developed, sometimes there is a sharp inbalance of actions and emotional impact.

Characters (which could have been better):

• Sometimes Xia Wei was simply too hostile, since the emotional impact of his past was mostly told and not experienced by the readers, at times when for example XL had an accident, he was all like - now you will feel my pain and feel more. Sure you know his motivation for doing it, but from other side it feels forced. The other side is his unreasonable at times personality. Greatest thing about him was absolute trust in XC, like he decided to be with this man and nothing would go in-between.
• Xiao Chengyuan had his own motivation of concealing the reason why he never talked about their past, but it felt faint, XW not once expressed his disdain for his ex-fiance and actually in front of XC, but XC waited for the company transfer to China to finally reveal who he actually is and later reveal their own business. The only thing I agree which he concealed is XW losing a child when he clamored XC about having a child, but had no idea that he was pregnant and accidentally lost it. But this part was so... flushed and you just glazed over, while it could have more developed and had more dramatic potential.
• Xia Linhan was a rather pitiful villain. He was simply a one-sided jealous of everything XW had. He stole love, stole his place, but never managed to make it his own. But the ending was a bit too much I think, making him get into an accident and become a vegetable.
• Wei Wen, who comes from the same Xiao family as ML, but is not directly related, this character also I have no idea why it was made like that, his unknown reason for liking XC to the point of being mad was really..weird.
• Xia family, had little to no coverage except that they led XW's mother to her pitiful ending, they basically squeezed her dry while she worked for the family, but then she found out some strange child belonging to other woman and everyone told her to be merciful, since child is innocent. The great part was when XW said that if one day XL's fiance derails, he should accept the illegitimate child since he is innocent and it totally uncovered the hypocritical mask.

Relationship:

Honestly, I wish there was more, but no. There was too little about XC and XW past years, only little information, they also got together pretty quickly, reasonably, but there was no questioning about it. I can't say I didn't like them, but sometimes XW acted really annoying and XC was basically accomodating all his bad temper. It was fine when XW finally retreived his memories and figured out that what caused his amnesia was actually his bad temper, but this was glazed too.

Tbh I was not impressed. Some parts had potential, but were lost in the lack of care from the author. It is also kind of irky how there's nothing particularly new to characters and how they act. There was so much inconsistency between how caracters act and emotional impact on a reader due to underdeveloped drama. 

RATE: 3 / 5.