Liang Shi was fair-skinned and beautiful, and the Jiang family chose her to be the child bride of eight-year-old Jiang Enze. She meant to do her duty and respect her parents-in-law, but there wasn’t a decent person in the Jiang family. Her in-laws beat and berated her, and her young husband followed their example, once hitting her so hard he split her head open. Her brother-in-law was always coveting her beauty and looking for a chance to take advantage of her. She endured it all, resigned to her fate.
When her brother-in-law trapped her in the woodshed and tried to force himself on her, she finally couldn’t take it anymore. She grabbed a stick, smashed it against his head, clutched her disheveled clothes, and jumped into the river.
Later, Liang Shi was reborn. She deliberately disfigured herself to escape the Jiang family’s marriage arrangement. When her mother tried to sell her to a man who harvested snails, she fled into the mountains and married a silly husband with amnesia.
Who says her husband is silly? He’s just honest and good-natured.
Her silly husband dotes on her like she’s the most precious thing in the world, and she’s happy to bear his children.
But one day, her silly husband falls off a cliff while out gathering firewood. He recovers his memories, becomes a decorated military officer, and forgets her and their children.
This man is no longer silly or sweet. She doesn’t want him anymore.
