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Blurb
A bowl of ginger soup and two neighbor women save a widow who tried to hang herself.
Did she survive?
Xi Yan doesn’t know. The widow’s body now holds her soul: that of a bleary-eyed, twenty-first-century academic drowning in a thesis.
For no apparent reason, she transmigrated. She doesn’t even have the original owner’s memories. Don’t panic! A stream of gossip soon fills her in: the original owner’s name was Wen E, though the people in the alley preferred to call her Madam Wen.
Madam Wen has been widowed for eight years and is determined to remain chaste. Everyone in the alley says she’s the most respectable woman, and no man could ever get close to her. But people’s words can change in an instant.
Madam Wen had an affair with a man!
He was the son of a wealthy local family: rich, handsome, and a cad. After just three months, he cast aside their former affection.
Madam Wen was ashamed and heartbroken. She wept, then hanged herself.
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Li Gou, the rich man’s son, is the cad in all the gossip. But he doesn’t believe it, and refuses to admit it. He’s convinced he isn’t the sort of heartless rake people make him out to be. The rumors run wild, his father beats him with the family rod, and his servant keeps whispering into his ear.
He doesn’t believe it!
Young Master Li kicks open the gate to his own home. It’s all the gate’s fault! It made him lose his memory. He forgot neither the seventh nor the eighth, but somehow forgot this one thing! That damned gate was clearly out to get him! At last, Li Gou can’t take it anymore and pays a visit to Gou Shui Alley.
He’ll see for himself just how he seduced her!
[Happy ending]
Theme: A widow must be strong and independent.
Why doesn't the heroine like to talk?