Yan Ruyu in the Book

Because she loved him, she seized an unexpected chance to inhabit the body of a well-bred young lady named Wen Fang. She saved him time and again and stood by him through the hardest periods of his life. But when he had achieved fame and success, he brought back the heroine, the person he loved most in the book.

Wen Fang could not accept it. The two argued many times and gradually drifted apart. Sometimes they would go half a month or even a whole month without seeing each other. Once, he went off to fight a distant war and returned six months later, covered in wounds. Used to seeking her help to treat them, he went to her palace, only to learn that she had long since passed away.

In the end, he finally avenged himself, but she was no longer in this world. Life felt so long and so dull.

To pass the time, he revisited the places she had once been. In a small village, he met someone who looked remarkably like her…