A Good Match for Marriage

Tao Yi earned money gathering herbs so she could send her childhood sweetheart, Sun Qi, to the capital for the imperial examinations. Sun Qi passed the palace examination in third place, but a princess took a liking to him and made him her husband.

When Tao Yi heard the news, she refused to believe it and insisted on going to the capital to demand an explanation. She found him, but Sun Qi handed her a bag of silver and told her to go home. He said they had nothing to do with each other anymore.

Heartbroken, Tao Yi stared at the cold silver in her hands. As she wept on her way out of the capital, someone struck her with a club, nearly killing her.

When she woke, she was in the private residence of Fifth Prince He Yanjing. A handsome man, as graceful as an immortal, sat beside her bed. But her mind was completely blank. She remembered nothing.

"Who are you?" Tao Yi asked him.

He Yanjing took her hand and smiled. "I'm your husband. This is your home."

Tao Yi stared blankly at her rough fingers and the ornate beams visible when she looked up, feeling uncertain. Had I really lived such a rich and splendid life before?

A year earlier, Fifth Prince He Yanjing had been pursued by assassins and collapsed, covered in blood, at the gate of a farming household. A young village girl had saved him.

Her fiancee advised her not to take in a stranger, but she insisted on saving him.

Tao Yi cared for him attentively, applying medicine and feeding him. Even when heavy rain and a landslide brought down a beam of the dilapidated house, Tao Yi shielded him with all her strength.

He Yanjing never imagined that when he had only half a life left, the person who would risk everything to save him would be a village girl like her.

A rare hint of warmth appeared in He Yanjing's usually cold, sinister eyes.

One day, Tao Yi returned from gathering herbs to find He Yanjing gone without leaving a word. Sun Qi laughed at her for feeding and sheltering a wolf.

At last, when He Yanjing finally found Tao Yi, she was lying in the wilderness, covered in blood. He brought her back to his residence and ordered the physicians in a calm but chilling voice, "If you can't save her, you'll all be buried with her."

Theme: Kind and gentle people will always find good fortune.