The Little Widower Has Two More Sides

[I won't abandon this novel, I won't abandon this novel, I won't abandon this novel! Things have changed in my offline life recently, so I haven't had time to write. I'll resume updates once things settle down! Same goes for my other novel, The Earth Next Door! I absolutely won't abandon either one!]

Yu Yi was born with only half his memories. He can remember everything that happens during the day, but as soon as dusk passes, he loses his memory.

With his incomplete memories, he never planned to form a close relationship with anyone. But lately, he's fallen for the little widower next door, whose husband just died.

One day, Yu Yi kindly offered to fix the little widower's broken light bulb. The moment he stepped inside, he saw that everything in the house came in pairs, clearly things the deceased husband had used all the time.

The only thing that stood alone was the dog's food bowl in the living room.

Yu Yi's heart gave a painful twinge. He felt that trying to take advantage of the situation made him just like that dog bowl.

Out of place and superfluous.

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Just after dusk, Ying Wuchu's doorbell rang.

He opened the door to find Yu Yi, his eyes red, standing before him.

Before he could say a word, Yu Yi's arm split into three tentacles, which wrapped around Ying Wuchu without a word.

Ying Wuchu looked up, puzzled.

Then Yu Yi said in a plaintive voice, "Honey, while I was gone, did you let another man into the house?"

Ying Wuchu thought of Yu Yi, who had fixed his light bulb that morning, and could only respond in exasperation. "...No."

"You're lying." Yu Yi tore off his human disguise, revealing ninety-nine tentacles. "I saw that the dog bowl had been moved."

Ying Wuchu felt a headache coming on.

How was he supposed to tell his lover, who only had half his memories, that his daytime self had kicked the bowl because he was jealous of himself?

[The seemingly widowed receiver (Ying Wuchu) x the gloomy puppy-like pursuer (Yu Yi)]

+++++++--Pre-release: Farming in Ancient Times, The Rough-Hewn Pursuer and His Little Husband--

++++++In his previous life, Qiao Gui was framed by his cousin Qiao Sanmiao and forced to marry Zhu, the sickly scholar from the neighboring village.

Zhu died of illness on their wedding day. Qiao Gui became a young widower, and spent the rest of his life in hardship, dying at just twenty-four.

In this life, Qiao Gui was reborn on the day he was framed. He turned the tables, escaped Qiao Sanmiao's scheme, and exposed Qiao Sanmiao's affair with Zhu in front of the villagers.

The village was abuzz with gossip. Zhu was so furious that he suffered a stroke and became paralyzed. Qiao Sanmiao was forced to marry Zhu and spend the rest of his life caring for a paralyzed man.

With his revenge complete and the knot in his heart from his previous life undone, Qiao Gui's already beautiful appearance seemed even more radiant. So many people came to ask for his hand in marriage that they nearly wore down his doorstep, but he turned every one of them down.

He was waiting for someone.

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The Xiang family was the poorest in the village. With both parents dead and eight siblings in all, they worked themselves to the bone every day just to get by.

Everyone in the village thought Xiang Da was poor. With no parents to support him and eight younger siblings to provide for, no one wanted to marry him.

By the time he was well into his twenties, Xiang Da had become a notorious bachelor in the village.

No one knew that he had someone in his heart.

The day he heard that Qiao Gui's mother was eager to find him a match, Xiang Da braved a blizzard and chopped firewood without a word for three days and nights. He sold it in town for a silk ribbon meant for a man, then knocked on Qiao Gui's door, still cold from the snow.

"What are you doing here?"

Qiao Gui glanced at him. What took him so long?

The taciturn man took the ribbon from his robe and carefully tied it around Qiao Gui.

"I'm here to ask for your hand in marriage."

Theme: Finding one's memories and building a wonderful life