My Sweet Husband Offers Me His Heart

A sharp-witted, ruthless amnesiac heroine who outmaneuvers everyone × a gentle yet unhinged wellness-minded hero who becomes a devoted husband for love

[Heroine's Perspective]

Before she hit her head and lost her memories, Duan Nanyin's life was perfect: noble birth, a family that doted on her, and a fiancé, the Yan prince Murong Ling, who wielded great influence and possessed incomparable looks. Enchanted by her dance, "The Dance of the Beloved," he had fallen madly in love with her, utterly obsessed.

That was what the amnesiac Duan Nanyin heard people say about her past.

But before her joy could even fade, she discovered that her stepmother was plotting to disfigure her, Prince Mu was preparing to abandon her, a supposed lover who had once carried on a secret affair with her appeared before her, and forces were lurking behind her, waiting for a chance to take her life...

Her perfect life was so fragile after all!

As Duan Nanyin searches for her memories, she also struggles to maintain the perfect facade that's on the verge of crumbling.

The journey from the inner chambers to the royal court is arduous, but Duan Nanyin finds her own enjoyment in it. She manipulates people's hearts and plays political games, picking up a few useful, sincere admirers along the way and granting them a little power, while sending a few false-hearted souls straight to hell.

When Murong Ling swears an oath to her from the throne, and she has won over half the court's most influential ministers, Duan Nanyin finally remembers:

She was the one who destroyed her own memories, martial arts, and power.

This was a game of immense ambition, bought at the cost of her first half of life. At eighteen, she wagered everything, all to send the entire Yan Kingdom to hell.

Oh no, the greatest villain was herself.

At twenty, Duan Nanyin must face the deadly trap her eighteen-year-old self set.

Duan Nanyin's catchphrase number one: "Those who don't give their hearts will go to hell."

Catchphrase number two: "Catch me, and I'll make you..."

[Hero's Perspective]

His Highness Prince Mu, Murong Ling, is a worthy prince, virtuous and benevolent. He holds great power but neither fights nor competes for more, and though he stands at the top, he remains as detached as a chrysanthemum.

The young general who slaughtered the enemy army with five thousand soldiers seems to have died two years ago. These days, he focuses on his health: early to bed and early to rise, brewing light tea and sipping mild wine, and tending to a roomful of rare flowers.

Some people mock him behind his back as the "Idle Prince," but few know that whenever a high-ranking court official dies, a precious flower in Prince Mu's greenhouse withers.

The day the greenhouse was emptied, Murong Ling watched Duan Nanyin approach with a bright smile and thought: He already possessed the most beautiful flower in the world. With seventeen scars on his wrist, the demon who had crawled out of hell had finally found his light.

Not long afterward, when he was poisoned and spat out his first mouthful of blood, he realized that he had always been nothing but Duan Nanyin's prey.

He had offered her his heart, yet she would still cast him into the deepest hell.

Murong Ling: "You worry yourself sick over Gao Xingzhou and pine for Liang Wanting. What about me?"

Author's notes: 1. The hero is powerful, but the heroine is even more so. The story is primarily told from the heroine's perspective. She is the best at political scheming, and remains the best even after she regains her martial arts later on.

2. Political intrigue in episodic arcs, set in a fictional world. Each "Sincere Heart" arc brings in one or two devoted husbands on average, while each "Hell" arc sends one or two people to hell.

3. A "devoted husband" means a man who looks up to and obeys the heroine, not a delicate or effeminate husband. Firmly 1v1, with both leads sexually inexperienced, but the heroine is a heartthrob with many devoted husbands around her, in a wide variety. The first arc focuses on household intrigue and has little of the hero; the romantic rivalry begins in earnest in the second arc, and the hero gets more page time.

4. Letting my personal tastes run wild, with plenty of female-gaze perspective. I'm tired of heroines crawling out of hell, so I'm writing one who sends other people to hell.

Theme: Recover memories and redefine yourself