Ye Sufeng's Fourth Book

At seventeen, after both her parents died, Shen Man was taken in by a distant uncle and moved into his old house in a southern mountain village. As if the leaky roof weren’t enough, she was forced to register a “fake marriage” with her uncle’s adopted son, Gu Changchuan, a wounded veteran, to keep the family’s homestead. He was stern and taciturn, and his war trauma had left him with amnesia. Yet at night, he would hold her close and mumble, “Sister-in-law.” They shared a room but slept separately, set three rules, and soon became the subject of village gossip. The villagers condemned them for incest. She clutched the hem of her clothes, afraid to move, while he avoided her gaze, tormented by guilt. Crushed by restrictive policies, the shackles of propriety, and the mystery of their identities, the two were drawn together on the edge of forbidden love. But when fragments of memory resurfaced, their birthmarks matched, and a wartime diary revealed the truth about their past, what was their marriage really: mistaken love for a substitute, or fate?