What Should I Do? I Married the Wrong Man

[Notice About Removing the Paywall] I'm sorry. So much time has passed that my understanding of the characters' psychology and personalities has drifted far from where it was at the beginning. When I reread the story to continue it, everything felt awkward. Continuing like this would be unfair to my readers, so after careful consideration, I asked my editor to remove the paywall. This is expected to happen on the afternoon of the 18th.

My completed novel: The Traitorous Minister's Brother's Widow. There are more stories with a variety of flavors in my author page's upcoming section~

This story is also known as Flawed White Jade.

- Before transmigrating: a doting, scheming CEO. After losing his memories: a spoiled, pure-hearted high school boy.

- What do you do when your wife accidentally marries someone else? Of course, you forgive her.

1.

Liu Meizhu's husband was eleven years older than her: refined, wealthy, handsome, and endlessly indulgent toward her.

Their love was sweet as honey, but on the night of their tenth anniversary, they were in a car accident and both died.

When Liu Meizhu woke again, she had transmigrated to an unfamiliar dynasty.

Her birth mother had died, leaving her in an awkward position at home. Liu Meizhu grew up utterly alone, and when she came of marriageable age, she caught sight of Xu Zong standing on a bridge during the Qiqiao Festival.

He had exactly the same face as the man she had loved in her previous life. The only difference was a small beauty mark beneath Xu Zong's eye.

Though Xu Zong's temperament was completely different from her beloved's, and he remembered nothing about transmigration, Liu Meizhu was heartbroken but convinced that he was her husband's reincarnation.

So she pursued him relentlessly, and eventually got her wish: she married Xu Zong.

Even when Xu Zong's moods swung unpredictably, treating her well one day and poorly the next, and even when his parents disapproved of her and repeatedly made her suffer, Liu Meizhu held on to the hope that one day Xu Zong would remember everything from their previous life.

Until Xu Zong brought home a beautiful young woman with a slightly rounded belly and insisted on taking her as a concubine.

Liu Meizhu was struck as if by lightning. Tears streaming down her face, she begged him not to take a concubine and to remember the years they had shared as husband and wife.

But Xu Zong only glanced coldly at her, sitting on the floor, and frowned. "Meizhu, don't act like some crude country woman."

At that moment, Liu Meizhu's heart died completely.

For the first time, she clearly understood: Xu Zong was not him.

Three years of love had been wasted, all for nothing.

2.

Seven days after the concubine entered the household, Liu Meizhu left a letter of separation and asked to become a Daoist nun.

But just before she left, she happened to meet a distant nephew of the Xu family, who had come from Shuozhou, at the main gate.

Liu Meizhu froze.

The nephew was youthful and spirited, with a face seven-tenths like her husband's.

He was just as stunned, but a smile had already crept across his face as he softly called, "Yiyi?"

That was her childhood nickname in her previous life.

Tears spilled from Liu Meizhu's eyes.

I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

I mistook someone else for you. Please forgive me, forgive me.*

3.

Once, while they lay in bed, his wife had absentmindedly touched the beauty mark beneath his eye.

Xu Zong asked her, "Does it look unpleasant?"

His wife shook her head and said playfully, "No, I think it adds the finishing touch."

Later, their love broke apart and they parted ways for years. When they met again, snow was falling thick and fast.

His wife stood in a field of white snow, while the tall young man holding an umbrella beside her was his nephew, Xu Congshan.

She smiled and said, "Xu Lang, I was wrong. It isn't the finishing touch. It's a flaw in white jade."

*Inspired by:

I've mistaken many people for you,

please forgive me, forgive me, forgive me.

--Anna Akhmatova, Selected Poems: The Evening Sky Is Dim and Yellow

Note:

1. Both leads transmigrate, the heroine has had previous partners while the hero has not, 1v1, happy ending.

2. Contains lots and lots of melodramatic plot twists, such as a second male lead pursuing his wife but failing to win her back, an older man becoming a younger man, and a young widow paired with a high school boy (a high school boy in ancient times).

Theme: Don't wait until you've lost something to cherish it