After transmigrating three years ago, Shen Yan, an unloved concubine-born daughter in the Minister of Rites' household, had been living with her grandmother at a temple, cultivating her mind and body. She grew vegetables, raised chickens and ducks, and sometimes wrote popular stories to sell secretly down the mountain. All in all, she was quite happy with her life.
Just then, the heir to the Prince of Zhennan came to recuperate at the temple. To repay a kindness from years ago, her grandmother slaughtered a chicken every day to make soup and had Shen Yan deliver it to him.
She had heard that the heir was upright and elegant. Though he was a formidable warrior who wielded sword and spear on the battlefield, he was as cool and handsome as a pale-faced scholar.
When she delivered the chicken soup, Shen Yan had secretly sized him up. The rumors were true: when he smiled, his brows and eyes were as lovely as a painting, and he was refined and gentle. But that very night, unable to sleep, Shen Yan went for a walk in the bamboo grove and happened to see the man who had nodded and thanked her that day smiling as he twisted someone's neck until it snapped.
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When the heir left to lead his troops into battle, Shen Yan finally relaxed.
But he returned from the expedition gravely wounded and unconscious. The Prince of Zhennan's household planned to find him a wife to bring him good fortune, and before long Shen Yan was summoned back to her father's home. As a pawn her father had planted in the Prince of Zhennan's household, she was married off to him.
After half a year of nervous waiting, the heir opened his eyes and stared at her for a long time. "Who are you?"
The heir had lost his memory!
Shen Yan was overjoyed. Weeping, she threw herself at him and took out the stories she had treasured for so long, the ones about his amorous exploits that had earned her a fortune time and time again. She read them to him one by one.
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Xie Heshan: "So you're saying we met at the temple, met secretly at night, carried on a clandestine affair, and fell hopelessly in love, so when I was missing and presumed dead, you married me out of devotion?"
Shen Yan nodded like a pecking chick.
Hah. Xie Heshan gripped the storybook and struggled to keep from throwing it at her shameless face.
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A conspiracy left Xie Heshan with both legs crippled and turned him into a helpless invalid.
Surrounded by wolves waiting to tear him apart, he could only hide his gloom and struggle to survive.
But the pawn planted to spy on him shielded him from their mockery and taunts. She popped a piece of candy into his mouth, then sat on the bed and carefully counted the silver coins in her purse, telling him not to listen to all that vile nonsense. Tomorrow, she could buy him a roast chicken.
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A male lead who feigns amnesia but is secretly calculating x an adorable, resilient, sunny heroine
Theme: Fate brings people together
