"If the person you love deeply falls deeply in love with someone else, what can you do?" - Jin Yong, White Horse Neighing in the West Wind
Amid the endless sandstorms of the Northwest, Guilan met Yan Suzhi. His head was covered in the scars of a tonsure, and he looked as though he had only just returned to secular life. Guilan thought he was exceptionally handsome and, bewitched by his looks, rescued him.
By the usual course of a story, Yan Suzhi should have offered himself to Guilan, fallen in love with her, married her, and made theirs a tale for the ages. But the truth was this: Yan Suzhi already had someone he loved.
The purpose of his journey was to marry that girl, even though she hated him to the bone.
Guilan once asked Yan Suzhi, "She wants to kill you, and you still love her?"
Years later, Guilan could still remember his answer perfectly. He said, "I owe her this."
Later, Guilan went alone into a bandits' den to die in place of the woman Yan Suzhi loved. The bandit chief looked at her in astonishment and asked, "What are you doing this for?"
"Maybe it's because I hate him." Guilan smiled. "I hate Yan Suzhi."
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By the time Yan Suzhi arrived, Guilan's body had already been thrown into the frozen river. He stared at the hole in the ice Guilan had smashed open, his face pale, barely able to keep hold of the knife in his hand.
What he didn't know was that many years earlier, when Guilan was thirteen, she had fallen into a bandits' pit. Just as she was trapped in the darkness with no hope of escape, someone came to her rescue.
It was a snowy day. Her hands and feet were so frozen she could not move. A young nobleman, burning with fever himself, casually took off his fox-fur cloak, wrapped it around her, and carried her step by step out of the bandits' den.
That was the first time they met.
(He was such a good person. He just didn't love me.)
[The male lead didn't lose his memory. He simply forgot. 2024/11/7]
Theme: Love yourself
