Gathering Spring's Light

Amnesia, melodrama, a coercive romance, and a long road to redemption.

A Fu accidentally hit her head and lost all her memories.

The servants told her she was married, and that her husband was not only handsome but also extremely considerate and attentive.

Every day, when he came home, he brought her the pastries she liked. In his spare time, he would hold her hands and teach her to play the zither.

The only downside was that every night, in bed, her husband would demand far too much of her, leaving her somewhat overwhelmed.

The day A Fu learned she was pregnant, she waited for her husband to return, full of joy. Then a woman who claimed to be her husband's younger sister barged into her courtyard.

Pointing at her, the woman shouted, "You're nothing but a kept woman, not even worthy of being a concubine. You're not fit to hold a candle to Third Miss Song!"

Furious, A Fu shoved back at the woman and accidentally hit her head.

When she woke up, she finally remembered who she was.

She was never that man's wife. She was his kept woman!

The so-called Third Miss Song was the unattainable love of his life. He had forced A Fu to become his kept woman simply because she looked a little like Third Miss Song.

She was a stand-in for the woman he loved.

She had refused to be his kept woman, and hit her head and lost her memory while trying to escape.

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Lu Zheng was born into a powerful family and enjoyed the emperor's favor. His life had always gone smoothly. The only thing that didn't go his way was that Third Miss Song, the woman he had set his heart on, had become engaged to someone else.

One day, while on official business in a small town in Jiangnan, he happened upon a flower seller.

Looking at the young woman's somewhat familiar face, he felt a despicable urge for the first time in his life. He used underhanded means to bring her back to the capital and keep her in a separate residence.

Who knew the young woman would refuse, no matter what, to be his woman?

He thought she was just a helpless orphan, and that he had plenty of ways to make her willingly become his kept woman. He never expected her to hit her head and lose her memory while trying to escape.

After losing her memory, she mistook him for her husband. She became sweet and docile, with eyes and heart full of him, and in the end, she even became pregnant with his child.

Thinking of the child she was carrying, Lu Zheng felt that making her live as a kept woman would be unfair to both mother and child. He planned to elevate her to the status of concubine after she gave birth.

But then, on that very day, A Fu remembered everything...

Blurb archived on February 13, 2026.

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