My Archrival Lost His Memory and Started Calling Me Wife

[Important: This novel is currently on hiatus. The blurb has been changed, and the story will be heavily revised going forward. The amnesia and nemesis tropes should remain, but if that bothers you, you can save it for later.]

Original blurb:

My name is Song Wanyi, and I am the Sword Sage's most prized disciple.

My master says I was born with a clear sword heart and an unblemished spirit, a once-in-a-century talent in the way of the sword.

Ever since I first held a sword, I have seen only two kinds of people:

Those I have defeated.

And those I need to work hard to defeat.

Li Fufeng of Xuandu Mountain, however, falls somewhere between the two, constantly provoking me.

When I was young, my sparring partner and rival was my senior brother. He was the Sword Sage's first disciple and a recognized prodigy. He had started cultivating long before I did, and his sword techniques were far superior to mine. I challenged him over and over, hoping to defeat him.

But before I could beat him, he lost to a dark horse named Li Fufeng at a gathering of the ten thousand sects. From then on, he lost his spirit and refused to pick up a sword again.

So I made Li Fufeng my target instead.

For years, I repeatedly went to Xuandu Mountain to challenge him. At first, I always lost, so I went often. Then, when I was sixteen, I beat him for the first time.

Just as I was preparing to find my next opponent, word came that he had broken through his bottleneck.

So I turned around, sword in hand, and went looking for him again.

As my master put it, when she was young, she and that old geezer from Xuandu Mountain fought for over a hundred years. In the end, she only barely managed to get the better of him.

Now that old geezer couldn't accept his defeat, so he was putting all his effort into his disciple, hoping to win back some face in the next generation.

My master said she'd given up on my senior brother, but no matter what, I must never lose to Li Fufeng.

I felt the same way.

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Li Fufeng was born into a cultivation clan with a thousand years of history. He was later sent to Xuandu Mountain to study the Heartless Path under Venerable Tianyuan. From childhood, he was taught: "Never lose your composure outwardly, and never let your heart be moved inwardly."

His life was like an ancient well: undisturbed by ripples and untouched by sunlight.

His clan said he had exceptional aptitude. His sect said he had a steadfast nature.

The world praised him as pure as a jade tree and as steady as a mountain, a model cultivator of the righteous path.

Only he knew that a beast had lived inside him, bound in chains for more than ten years.

He had always thought he would go on living like a marionette, until one day a bright, beautiful girl pointed her sword at him and said:

"What's the difference between being alive and being dead for someone like you? Come on, fight me!"

As lively as a mountain bird trespassing in a forbidden place, she flapped her wings and shattered the stillness that had consumed his life for years.

At last, his ears heard more than the sound of his own heartbeat. A name kept burning on his tongue, over and over.

Wanyi, Wanyi... Through countless days and nights, the thoughts he couldn't let see the light grew wildly like vines, winding around his bones and devouring his heart and lungs.

He cultivated the Heartless Path, but in the end, he didn't sever his emotions and desires. Instead, he had simmered every longing into an obsession, binding it tightly to the girl he loved.

Reading guide:

·The main story is told in third person.

·My own take on cultivation, with many original settings.

·Some events in the blurb are affected by the heroine's limited perspective. They reflect only her subjective understanding, not the whole story.

·Cultivation realms in this book: Body Tempering → Spirit Guidance → Meridian Opening → Essence Condensation → Origin Fusion → Spirit Platform → Mind Awakening → Path Seeking → Return to the True

Blurb updated on 2026-5-28 and saved as a screenshot.

Theme: Let go of prejudice and see the sincerity within