“A devoted couple | The husband pursues his wife | Political intrigue | Marriage alliance | Amnesia | A dangerously possessive husband | Marriage before love”
After falling ill with a fever, Shen Zhaozhao forgets the hostage prince she once protected as a child and studied alongside.
When they meet again, he is Gu Jingyuan, the new emperor who has trampled across her homeland’s borders. He issues an edict naming her as his bride in a political marriage.
When he lifts her veil, tears stream down her face. “I was going to marry General Lu Ci. What gives you the right?”
His throat tightens. He thinks she has given her heart to someone else, unaware that she can’t even remember the name Gu Jingyuan.
When power in the harem is taken from her, she doesn’t fight back, and he mistakes this for indifference. When she falls ill, the doctor says, “The heart needs its own medicine,” so he brings her peach blossom pastries in the middle of the night.
Only when the Eldest Princess mentions an old letter from their childhood, and a reply from her mother arrives, does Shen Zhaozhao finally understand.
The hostage prince who was locked in a woodshed and bullied had waited for her for seven whole years.
All along, the one who said he wanted to marry her was him.
Later, after she falls and wakes up, all she sees is the boy Gu Jingyuan crouching beneath the corridor, smiling. “Zhaozhao, I’ll marry you.”
Gu Jingyuan: “If my Zhaozhao has forgotten me, then I’ll make her fall in love with me all over again.”
