The Prince Lost His Mind Before the Divorce

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Story Description

Yinxi had worked as a medical woman for seventeen years before learning she was the young lady of the Duke's household who had gone missing as a child. To show compassion for the Duke's family, and because Prince Su had won distinction in battle, the Emperor arranged their marriage.

Everyone assumed they were strangers, but only Yinxi knew she had once saved him.

The day after their wedding, Lin Changji left. He returned to the northwest, while she traveled far and wide. They exchanged no letters for two years.

When Lin Changji was gravely wounded, Yinxi risked her life to climb the mountain and gather medicine to save him. Yet the first name he called when he woke was not hers.

Yinxi's heart turned cold. Once he had recovered, she wrote a divorce agreement and a letter of repudiation. When she handed them to Lin Changji, he accepted both.

Yinxi was furious. Even a rabbit will bite when cornered! She was about to bite him... or rather, curse him, when Lin Changji swallowed both pieces of paper right in front of her.

As he chewed, he asked, "Are there any more? These are pretty tasty."

Yinxi stared at him. H-he-he-he-he-he's gone mad?

The entire household of attendants gathered around her. "Your Highness, please save the prince."

Yinxi's heart softened, and she stayed, thinking she would leave once she had cured him. She never expected her fantasies to come true. Her once cold husband now accompanied her to admire spring flowers, fanned her in summer, climbed heights with her in autumn, and shared drinks with her in winter.

She thought the heavens had not treated her unfairly after all, since they had let her meet him.

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Prince Su had spent his life on the battlefield. When he was gravely wounded, a medical woman saved him. He loved her, but the Emperor arranged a marriage for him.

He had no interest in anyone else, and had already prepared divorce papers, planning to set her free after two years.

Two years later, he unexpectedly realized that the woman he had searched for so desperately was his wife. But he died the day before he could go to her.

He dreamed a strange, fantastical dream. When he woke, he realized he had been reborn. If so, this time he would be the one to save her and love her.

Just as he was about to confess his feelings, she handed him a divorce agreement and a letter of repudiation. To make both letters disappear, Lin Changji swallowed them, and just like that, he had a perfectly good reason to pretend to be mad.

The prince in the early stages of pretending to be mad: My head hurts. I can't do it.

The prince in the later stages of pretending to be mad: Today, I finally know myself.

Lin Changji felt guilty. He resolved that if Yinxi learned the truth and insisted on leaving, he would never stop her. Later, Yinxi did indeed figure out that he had been deceiving her...

That night, in the cold darkness, as she passed him, he reached out. "If you want to leave, I won't stop you. But please, take me with you too."

Reading Guide: The hero has always loved the heroine, but there's a misunderstanding. He also has other reasons for pretending to be mad. He is reborn and changes the outcome of his previous life. A little angst before his rebirth, then overflowing sweetness afterward. The heroine will not regain her memories. Both leads are sexually inexperienced, happy ending. A fictional setting inspired by the Tang Dynasty.

Promotional Blurb

Xi Ling had been betrothed to Wang Xingzhou since childhood. Before their wedding, the former emperor died, and Xi Ling's grandfather was impeached by the powerful clans. The entire Xi family was thrown into prison. Wang Xingzhou was merely a distant branch of the Wang family, and to save himself, he hurriedly broke off the engagement. The Xi family was sentenced to exile. On the day they were to leave, Xie Songhan's grandfather held up a marriage contract and stopped the guards. "This woman is a daughter-in-law of the Xie family."

That marriage contract saved Xi Ling, but it also kept Xie Songhan from joining the army.

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Xi Ling knew Xie Songhan was unhappy with the marriage. After they wed, he would only call her "Older Sister," and they only consummated their marriage because his grandfather pressured and coaxed him into it.

Xi Ling became ever more cautious, hoping only for two things: to bear a son and secure her place in the Xie family, and to earn some money to help her family. She no longer dared hope for anything else.

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Xie Songhan knew the marriage had been arranged by his grandfather, but he still couldn't keep himself from resenting Xi Ling.

Later, at the painting shops east of the city, Wang Xingzhou spent a fortune buying dozens of unsigned paintings. A friend who loved art secretly kept one and invited him to admire it. Xie Songhan recognized Xi Ling's handwriting at a glance.

That day, he drank himself into a stupor, the words of his friend echoing in his mind: "She doesn't love you."

In the second year of their marriage, Xie Songhan's grandfather died, and Xie Songhan resolutely joined the army. Xi Ling said nothing, but while packing his things, she found a box in a secret compartment in his study. As if possessed, she opened it. Inside were all the paintings she had sold over the years. Xi Ling counted them. Not one was missing.

As Xi Ling stared in shock, his voice came from outside the door. "Older Sister, don't you have anything to say to me?"

Xi Ling looked at him for a long time, then her eyes reddened. "When you return, I'll tell you everything."

Xie Songhan smiled. "All right."

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Later, Xie Songhan returned covered in knife wounds. When he saw her, he only grinned. "Older Sister, I'm back."

That year, the Great Yi reclaimed Jiangbei, which it had lost twenty-four years earlier, and Xi Ling's grandfather was cleared of all charges.

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Xie Songhan thought marrying Xi Ling had ruined all his ambitions, never knowing she was the bright moon lighting his path.

Xie Songhan: So what if she doesn't love me? I've got plenty of strength and tricks up my sleeve ^o^

Theme: Having seen the vastness of the world, one can still cherish the green of every blade of grass.