After Losing My Memory, I Drove My Mermaid Wife Away

A cool, aloof merman prince and a roguish young general

Ancient setting ABO · regretful pursuit · melodramatic pregnancy plot

Pei Zhitang's sole purpose in going to the enemy state of Tianqi as a hostage is to kill someone: his first love, the Third Prince of Tianqi, Lu Jianfeng, in exchange for his freedom.

Pei Zhitang meets Lu Jianfeng in the eighteenth year of his imprisonment. Born a prince of the Northern Border, he is also a merman. Merman blood can cure every poison, so everyone sees him as nothing more than a miraculous medicine.

On the day he turns eighteen, while locked away in a basement, Lu Jianfeng bursts into his bleak life like a raging flame. He is the first person to say he likes Pei Zhitang, the first to tell him that merfolk are people too and deserve to live normal lives, and the first to promise to take him away. But when they meet again two years later, Lu Jianfeng has a beloved fiancée and even demands that Pei Zhitang give up his heart's blood to save her, arrogantly declaring, “Merfolk are born to suffer this fate.”

Lu Jianfeng loves his fiancée beyond measure, so Pei Zhitang deliberately strikes at his greatest vulnerability. On the wedding day, he kidnaps the bride, disguises himself as her, and completes the wedding rites with Lu Jianfeng. Watching Lu Jianfeng's face twist as he demands to know where the bride is, Pei Zhitang laughs until he cries. But even the deepest obsession vanishes when he gives up his freedom, takes a fatal sword blow for Lu Jianfeng, and loses the little life growing inside him. Smiling, Pei Zhitang says they should never meet again in another life. Who could have guessed that, when they meet again, Lu Jianfeng would drop to his knees, weeping and crying, “Wife, I was wrong. Come home with me!”

Pei Zhitang links arms with his handsome fiancé and asks in confusion, “Sir, who are you?”