[Content warning: The leads switch roles, both leads are disabled and each is responsible for the other's disability, there is an amnesia trope, and one character cannot care for himself.]
After She Li became disabled, his good-for-nothing older brother arranged a marriage to a hideous slave just to humiliate him. He even threw a lavish wedding banquet so the entire clan would know that the once-celebrated prodigy was now blind and couldn't even stand, a worthless cripple.
He couldn't even stand, let alone father an heir. Even knowing that his brother had found him a man, he made no objection and even praised his brother's kindness.
But after the banquet ended, alone in the empty courtyard with only the ugly slave's breathing for company, he would sigh into the void before him and say, "From now on, your name is Yuan Chi."
Yuan Chi, his nemesis, the one responsible for his current predicament, the person he hated most and found hardest to forget.
The only clear memory the ugly slave had was a fire. Beautiful flames had risen from his body, scorching his skin and throat, and perhaps even damaging his mind.
His memories from before he became a slave were hazy. By the time he realized what had happened, he was already the disabled bride of a cripple who looked decent enough but had a terrible temper. After giving him a strange name, the man made his life miserable every day. If he weren't so good-looking, the slave would have run off long ago.
But one day, he unexpectedly heard the man calling his name through his tears. His face was full of emotions the slave couldn't understand, and the slave found himself feeling a little uneasy.
If he loved this Yuan Chi so much, what would be wrong with becoming Yuan Chi himself?
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When Yuan Chi's subordinates finally found their young master, they discovered him holding the man he used to curse three times every night before bed, looking thoroughly lovestruck. ...Maybe they should wait a little longer before helping him recover his memories?
Core Theme: Gold remains gold even when hidden beneath the dust. It only needs someone to bring it to light.
