Has Madam Regained Her Memory Today?

[My next book, Moonlight Shines on Me, launches June 2 at 9:00 PM. Please add it to your reading list!]

Song Yao is the wife of the powerful minister Gu Zeng.

Gu Zeng is peerlessly handsome and wields great power. He also cherishes her dearly.

The only flaw is that Song Yao has lost her memory.

She remembers nothing of the childhood friendship and youthful promise Gu Zeng says they shared.

Gu Zeng tells her, "It's all right if you don't remember. We can start over."

Song Yao believes him, and for a while they live together in perfect harmony. Later, when Song Yao plans to surprise Gu Zeng, she unexpectedly remembers the past.

She really had married, but not Gu Zeng. Her husband was named Shen Huaibi.

Gu Zeng was both talented and handsome, but his lowly origins made him a target of humiliation and abuse. For power, he was willing to give up anything, even climb over corpses and do whatever it took to rise. But when he finally held great power, Gu Zeng realized that Song Yao was the only person in the world who loved him.

By then, however, Song Yao was already another man's wife.

So Gu Zeng framed the Shen family, then snatched Song Yao away. But the love that had once been in her eyes was gone, replaced by deep hatred and disgust.

Just as Gu Zeng thought things would stay that way between them, Song Yao lost her memory.

He seized the chance to erase the pain between them and use their happy memories to create a beautiful dream.

Song Yao believed him. She called Gu Zeng her husband and acted as sweetly toward him as she had in the past.

But dreams always end. Later, Song Yao regained her memories.

Beneath the frosty night sky, Gu Zeng stopped Song Yao, his gaze stubborn and feverish. "If you want to leave, you'll have to kill me first."

Song Yao stabbed him without hesitation.

Shen Huaibi is a refined young master from an established family, as elegant as a sprig of orchid or a stalk of jade.

He loves his junior schoolmate Song Yao, but Gu Zeng is the only one in her heart. So Shen Huaibi buries his feelings and never speaks of them. Later, the Shen and Song families arrange their marriage, and Song Yao becomes his wife. But not long after their wedding, the Shen family is falsely accused and brought to ruin, and Gu Zeng steals Song Yao away.

Shen Huaibi falls into the mud, his backbone broken by his enemies. No matter how hard things get, he is determined to bring his wife home.

Reading Guide:

1. A forced marriage and possessive pursuit + a groveling husband trying to win back his wife + male rivalry for the heroine

2. When the heroine loves someone, she truly loves him. When she doesn't, she truly doesn't. She won't waver, look back, or play the saint.

3. A short, melodramatic story. I've never written this kind of thing before and want to give it a try. The content warnings are clearly stated in the blurb. If it's not for you, please don't read it. Let's respect each other, and everyone can be happy.

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Next book: Moonlight Shines on Me. Blurb:

Qi Mingle likes Wei Shu, heir to the Duke of Wei.

She hears that Wei Shu likes refined young women, so she puts away her sword and learns elegant pursuits like making incense and brewing tea.

She thinks that one day, Wei Shu will come to like her.

But when a flash flood hits and Wei Shu unhesitatingly shields his cousin, Qi Mingle finally understands: trying hard doesn't always lead to a happy outcome.

Qi Mingle lets go of her obsession with Wei Shu, follows her father's arrangements, and marries Zhang Yuanxiu, the new top graduate of the palace examination.

Their marriage is arranged by their families, and they barely know one another. Qi Mingle doesn't expect much from it. But after the wedding, she discovers that her husband is not only talented and handsome, with a gentle and mild temperament, but also treats her wonderfully.

Qi Mingle had thought she could always get a divorce if things didn't work out. Now, she suddenly feels that perhaps this life isn't so bad.

Everyone in Shengjing knows about Qi Mingle and Wei Shu. When Qi Mingle is about to marry Zhang Yuanxiu, everyone thinks she's doing it out of spite.

Zhang Yuanxiu thinks so too, but he doesn't care, because he is marrying Qi Mingle only to repay a debt of gratitude.

After their wedding, they treat each other with courtesy and respect. Zhang Yuanxiu waits for Qi Mingle to ask for a divorce. But as time passes, he finds he can't let her go. He wants the moon to belong to him.

Those who had been waiting to see Qi Mingle regret marrying beneath her station never expected to first see Wei Shu regret losing her, and then watch Zhang Yuanxiu rise from a low-ranking Hanlin scholar to a powerful chief minister.

In a dark alley, Wei Shu lies on the ground, battered and struggling to raise his head.

He sees the gentle, courteous chief minister slowly grind beneath his heel the hand Wei Shu used to touch Qi Mingle. His eyes are as cold as ice. "Mingle is my wife. I suggest you show some respect, Heir Wei."

Upcoming book: The Playboy's Guide to Winning His Wife Back. Blurb:

Yu Lingyi is a talented young woman who, after an accident, has no choice but to marry He Jinchao, a young marquis.

He Jinchao is handsome and comes from a distinguished family, but he's also the most notorious playboy in the capital.

After their wedding, He Jinchao continues to spend his days carousing with his friends, barely seeing Yu Lingyi even once a month.

When people ask He Jinchao what he thinks of his new wife, he says without hesitation, "Quiet and obedient, but stiff and dull."

A few days later, He Jinchao and his friends accidentally stumble upon a women's banquet while out enjoying themselves.

There, Yu Lingyi, the quiet, obedient, stiff, and dull woman he described, is happily chatting and drinking with everyone.

When someone brings up He Jinchao, he sees his gentle, refined wife immediately look disgusted. "Why bring him up when we were having such a lovely time?"

He Jinchao: "!!!"

He Jinchao's friends: "Well, well~"

When they first married, He Jinchao had a poor impression of the wife he'd been forced to bring home.

But gradually, he discovers that besides being a brilliant writer, his wife is also skilled at pitch-pot, sword dancing, and polo. The reason she says so little around him is that they have nothing in common.

Seeing Yu Lingyi's eyes light up as she composes poetry with others, He Jinchao, who has always hated reading, enters the study for the first time of his own accord and pulls out the books propping up the table.

Theme: Never betray your true heart.