Classmates tease Chen Shuque about his transformation, calling it "the decline of public morals."
Back then, he was the shining, clear-eyed heartthrob of No. 7 High School, with light in his eyes.
Now all that's left is a cold, unfeeling man steeped in a life of luxury and excess.
He's an even bigger scumbag to his wife, Jiang Qingyue.
A bad man with a sincere heart? No such thing.
But at Jiang Qingyue's new book signing,
a video of Chen Shuque getting drunk and completely losing it unexpectedly sets the internet ablaze.
In the shaky footage, the once-arrogant, carefree genius now has a terrifying, feverish redness at the corners of his eyes.
"As long as I don't get divorced, he'll never be able to come out into the open!"
"You want to kick me aside and take my place? In your next life!"
"Jiang Qingyue, you and him will never happen!"
The reporters at the event erupt, thrusting their microphones toward Jiang Qingyue.
"Is the man your husband mentioned the second young master of the Ling Group, Ling Fangsu?"
"We hear you actually liked Ling Fangsu at first, but your youthful insecurity made you miss your chance. Is that true?"
Jiang Qingyue looks at the frozen image of Chen Shuque, his gaze shattered and frenzied, and responds to the reporters with mixed feelings. "What if I told you I lost my memory in a car accident a few months ago? Would you believe me?"
At twenty-eight, Jiang Qingyue is a bestselling author as famous as a celebrity.
She's young, beautiful, and controversial.
She has also found a wonderful husband: Chen Shuque, a newly ascendant tycoon worth hundreds of billions.
At eighteen, Jiang Qingyue is a small-town girl who transfers to an elite high school by a twist of fate.
She's sensitive, insecure, and determined to better herself.
Dreaming of becoming a writer, she catches an inadvertent glimpse of another world and accidentally enters the lives of the privileged, terrified and ill at ease.
A car accident robs twenty-eight-year-old Jiang Qingyue of ten years of memories, turning her back into the sensitive, insecure girl she was at eighteen.
She no longer remembers her husband.
She also feels like a stranger to Ling Fangsu, the close friend she used to know so well.
She doesn't even know whether the rumors are true: that she cheated on her husband and had an improper relationship with Ling Fangsu.
But who cares?
She's rich, beautiful, and well-connected now.
She just wants to raise her eighteen-year-old self all over again.
It's just that this "free" husband is rather strange.
There seem to be all sorts of stories about this guy going around.
People say he's a womanizer, ruthless, and capable of killing without shedding a drop of blood.
His rotten reputation seems to be universally acknowledged.
No one has a good word to say about him.
But this rotten man is the one who, after she loses her memory, joins her in her madness and mischief, carefully protecting the insecure, timid girl whose soul is growing back inside her.
He creates romantic, dreamlike memories for her, the kind she'd always longed for.
He helps her retrace the path from an innocent girl to a mature woman, this time in a brighter way.
He's her guiding mentor and her trusted companion.
He's anything but the "scum wearing a human face" everyone else describes.
Theme: Live your life with care
