A Xi was seventeen. After missing her chance at marriage, the villagers secretly cursed her as a bringer of disaster.
She quietly resolved that this year she would find herself a husband.
Then she set her sights on the fool she had rescued from the mountains. Though dim-witted, he was handsome, could fish and hunt, and even blushed whenever he saw her.
Since she had to marry someone anyway, why not…
After the wedding, the couple treated each other with mutual respect and were deeply in love.
But before long, her husband vanished into thin air.
Just as A Xi was losing all hope, someone told her that the heir of the Marquis of Yong’s mansion in the capital looked remarkably like her husband. But Lord Yan was a ruthless, sinister man who had blood on his hands…
A Xi packed her things and decided to get to the bottom of it.
*
Yan Zhao was confronted at his door.
The young woman clung to his leg, sobbing and wailing. “You heartless man…”
“You abandoned me and the child in my belly…”
“Aren’t you afraid you’ll be struck by lightning?”
Yan Zhao’s face was cold. He was always careful when he did that sort of thing. “Where did this child come from?”
Seeing that he admitted it, A Xi wiped away her tears, took out her woodcutter’s knife, and sharpened it as she advanced on Yan Zhao. “You bastard, prepare to die!”
At night, the noble and powerful man from earlier climbed in through the window, wrapped his arms around the beauty in bed, and kissed her soft, pale skin again and again.
“My lady, please take pity on me. Don’t divorce me.”
A Xi began to choke back tears, then heard his fierce warning: “We exchanged vows before Heaven and Earth. If you dare bring up divorce again, I’ll kill myself.”
Yan Zhao was no good man. His hands were stained with countless lives, and he was destined for hell after death.
But he just couldn’t let go of the carefree A Xi.
Oh well. For her sake, he might as well live another couple of years.
1. A young doctor × a dark, obsessive man
2. The male lead has amnesia early on
Theme: Cut your losses in time and walk away
