Parting from You

The chase to win her back, the untouchable beauty falling for love, the jerk turning into a mad dog

*

Everyone in Qingshan Village envied Li Jingniang for finding herself a handsome husband. He was good at getting things done and treated her and her child with extraordinary tenderness and care.

But in the third year of their marriage, the husband she hadn't wanted to marry regained his memories. He turned out to be the pampered heir of the Marquis of Anyang's mansion in the capital, and Li Jingniang suddenly became the heir's wife.

People in the capital all said Li Jingniang was lucky. An illiterate country girl had flown up a branch and become a phoenix.

Only Li Jingniang knew how agonizing every day in the marquis's mansion was.

Her mother-in-law thought her uncouth and feared she'd corrupt the children, so she cruelly took her daughter away. Li Jingniang pleaded with her husband to step in and talk to his mother. But the man who had once been so gentle with her had become someone she didn't recognize after returning to the capital. He frowned and told her to stop making a fuss.

Rumors that she was about to be divorced spread throughout the mansion.

Heartbroken, Li Jingniang decided to leave that night and return to her hometown. Startled, she fell from the wall.

*

Cheng Zhaoheng has been beside himself with worry lately. After his wife fell while climbing over the wall in the middle of the night, she was unconscious for a day and a night, then lost four years of memories and no longer recognized him.

What's more, after waking up, she had reverted to the blunt, outspoken, carefree girl she'd been at fifteen.

She defied the mother-in-law who tried to punish her and berated her.

She scolded and mocked her sisters-in-law.

She even took the children of the household up trees to catch birds and into the water to catch fish,

completely disregarding the rules and manners of the family.

She was also wary and resistant toward him, her husband, repeatedly sending him to the front courtyard and refusing to share a bed with him.

Cheng Zhaoheng was helpless. He could only comfort himself that once Li Jingniang regained her memories, everything would return to normal.

Even if she never recovered them, surely she'd gradually grow to admire him, just as she had three years ago, and become wholly devoted to him, tempering her personality for his sake.

He believed this without a doubt, until one day he saw his wife, who avoided him like the plague, gazing admiringly at a young, brawny charcoal seller.

"That heir doesn't seem like much to me. He's always frowning, like a block of ice. If I got divorced, I'd choose to marry a gentle, hardworking man like Brother Xie."

*

After catching his wife when she ran away for the second time since recovering her memories, Cheng Zhaoheng locked her in their bedroom. Every night, as she moaned in a daze, he fixed his bloodshot eyes on her and rasped the same reminder over and over.

"Jingniang, I'm your husband. I'm the husband you love most..."

#ASecondChance,ButYouAreNoLongerMyPerfectHusband

First draft of the synopsis written on March 31, 2026. Screenshot as proof.

Theme: Keep your heart facing the light, and fear no darkness.