After My Fiancé Lost His Memory

Jiang Sui was an orphan whose life was worth less than a blade of grass, and she was also plagued by a serious illness.

On the snowy night when she was near death, the young Wei Yuan happened to pass by. His dark eyes gazed down at her with pity.

He took her home and saved her. Over the following years, Wei Yuan risked his life testing medicines to cure her illness, taught her to read and write, and helped her understand people and reason. He even bought her a house and farmland so she could establish a home of her own.

Jiang Sui loved Wei Yuan. The young man was devoted to the greater good and spent half his life fighting in blood-soaked battles. He was the great hero who rescued her and the people from a life of suffering.

So later, when time had passed and Wei Yuan was gravely wounded and lost his memory, forgetting that he had once loved her and become engaged to her, Jiang Sui never grew resentful, even when he broke off their relationship because he had fallen for someone else.

She still prayed every year that her benefactor would be safe from harm and blessed with peace and happiness. And when she saw Wei Yuan accused of treason for trying to save the woman he loved, she spent her entire fortune to rescue him from his punishment.

She stayed by Wei Yuan through the hardest days of his life, and was even willing to risk her own life to save the woman he loved.

The day Jiang Sui died, snow was falling heavily, too.

The difference was that her young man was lost in the joy of seeing the woman he loved come back from the dead. He would never take Jiang Sui home again.

*

The people, the land, and his principles were shackles that bound Wei Yuan. He devoted his life to serving them, was framed by villains, and did right by many people. The only person he wronged was Jiang Sui, who had loved him wholeheartedly.

Fortunately, fate took pity on him and gave him a second chance. But the girl who should have been his, according to his memories, had already married someone else.

He found a way to abduct Jiang Sui, and made himself suffer, one by one, all the hardships she had endured in her previous life.

Wei Yuan knelt on the ground, his eyes red. "Do you still hate me?"

The girl smiled gently. "I never hated you."

"I just don't love you anymore."

1. A melodramatic, bittersweet angst story. The heroine is no saint. The blurb doesn't reveal the whole truth, and if you think the blurb is badly written, try reading a couple of chapters. The heroine gives up on him from Chapter 13 onward. The more the heroine suffers, the more the hero will suffer, too. If you don't believe it, check out the author's previous works. Wei Yuan goes too far early on, so his pursuit of her ends in failure.

2. Wei Yuan's situation isn't simply amnesia, and the other woman isn't a catfight rival. Wei Yuan has loved only the heroine from beginning to end.

3. No xianxia or fantasy elements. This is a historical romance.

Coming soon: Plucking the Flower from the Highest Peak.

Bai Wan is the most forgettable background character and cannon fodder in a novel.

Timid and dull, from humble beginnings, neither talented nor beautiful: that is how others see Bai Wan. In the original story, she marries up to become Prince Wei's wife. He cherishes her, and she lives a happy life.

That should have been the best possible ending for the old Bai Wan.

But not for the Bai Wan of today. One distant glimpse at a flower-viewing gathering, and she falls in love with the dazzling, spirited Crown Prince.

His Highness the Crown Prince is upright, disciplined, wise, and virtuous, a bright moon hanging high in the sky. The mere thought of him spending his life with another woman makes Bai Wan mad with jealousy.

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Three months later, a major event took place in the capital. The Crown Prince mysteriously disappeared, and at the same time, a daughter of the Bai family died of illness.

She had been such an insignificant person that, apart from Prince Wei, who mourned her sorrowfully, no one seemed to care.

*

Xie Fusheng was free of worldly desires and devoted to government affairs. His only wish in life was for the people of Great Zhao to stop being displaced and to live in peace and prosperity.

Then Bai Wan appeared and completely ruined the life he had planned.

She was obsessive and cruel, and there was something wrong with her. Because she loved him, she kidnapped him and imprisoned him in a mountain village, forcing him to marry her.

That miserable life lasted two years. Just as he had grown used to it, the royal family found him, and the mad woman was imprisoned and tortured, just as he had wished.

He personally drafted the imperial decree. As he listened to a eunuch vividly describe Bai Wan's wretched condition in prison, Xie Fusheng changed her sentence from being cut to pieces to death by waist-slicing, then changed it again to death by poisoned wine, leaving her body intact.

Xie Fusheng knew Bai Wan was mentally ill, but he still visited her before she died. Covered in wounds, she looked at him without a trace of the tenderness or love she once held for him. She cursed him to die a horrible death, then drank the poison without hesitation.

Xie Fusheng found it ridiculous. But when he actually saw Bai Wan breathe her last and die a miserable death, he felt none of the satisfaction of revenge, nor any sense of relief.

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Years later, after Xie Fusheng ascended the throne, he still did not hold a selection of consorts or appoint an empress. Then, at a palace banquet, the moment he saw Prince Wei's consort, his reason completely crumbled.

The woman he had once sworn was his nightmare, the woman whose flesh and blood he had wanted to devour, was also the wife he now yearned for day and night, the wife he had lost.

A dark story. The heroine really is mentally ill.

Theme: Flowers bloom and fall in their own time; meeting and parting are never planned.