The Amnesiac Wife Is Branded Again

Blurb The first time Ning Xinyan met Xi Xun was in the rehabilitation room of a mental-body therapy clinic. The new doctor had a stern expression and few words. He wore the clinic's standard-issue white coat, with the buttons of his checked shirt fastened neatly up to his neck. Unlike other therapists, who made casual conversation and offered some preliminary guidance before treatment, he said only two simple things: "Lie down" and "Relax." Ning Xinyan didn't know what kind of mental power he had. She only knew it was powerful and gentle, wrapping around and soothing her during treatment, making her dream uncontrollably of scenes she could hardly put into words. After treatment, the young doctor would calmly remove the damp disposable mattress, as if it were nothing unusual, then carefully wash his long, porcelain-white hands under running water. - The twenty-sixth time Ning Xinyan met Xi Xun was at the birthday banquet of her blind date. She sat amid a crowd of people she barely knew, wearing a polite, social smile until her face began to stiffen. Xi Xun sat at the other end of the long table, chatting and laughing with the friends around him. He wore a burgundy velvet suit, its collar thrown open to reveal glimpses of his muscular chest. He had an air of noble elegance with a hint of wildness. No one knew that beneath the table, his mental entity wound its way through the crowd and wrapped itself precisely around Ning Xinyan's calf. For every extra word her blind date said to her, the coils crept one inch higher. - Xi Xun's human wife had run away. Because he had only left a temporary mark on her, his wife's signal was vague and hard to track. Xi Xun crossed black holes time and again, flying through nearly a thousand carbon-based life star systems before he found her trail. His wife didn't recognize his disguise, couldn't remember him as her husband, and was even planning to marry another human man. Xi Xun decided to give his wife a little punishment. At that man's birthday banquet, beside the hot spring pool where everyone was celebrating, Xi Xun pinned his wife between bamboo partitions and lowered his lips to her shoulder strap. After this first full mark, she would never leave again. [Blurb archived] Blurb archived Theme: Face the truth bravely