Amnesia trope | Folk-horror mystery | Gloomy atmosphere | Love triangle showdown
[Flirtatious, sweet-looking-but-dark heroine X gloomy, sharp-tongued, bitter husband]
1.
On the way to get divorced, Lin Sijiu was in a car accident and lost her memory.
The man keeping watch at her bedside showed her their marriage certificate and said his name was Qin Shiyue, her newlywed husband.
Lin Sijiu took in his striking looks and was quite pleased with her taste. That night, she shared a bed with him like a new bride.
But the man's expression was cold and distant. "Aren't you going to see your dear lover tonight?"
Her handsome husband seemed unwilling to touch her and went to the next room instead.
Lin Sijiu asked why, and her husband looked back at her even more resentfully. "Have you forgotten? I'm impotent."
Lin Sijiu couldn't understand why she'd married an impotent man. No wonder she'd found herself a lover.
Yet that night, in her dream, her impotent husband was fiercely and brutally passionate.
Lin Sijiu woke with flushed skin, unable to forget the horn-shaped silver tassel earring swaying from his left ear.
She later learned that he was Qi Che, her dead ex-boyfriend.
2.
Lin Sijiu suspected Qin Shiyue was trying to hurt her.
He had deliberately concealed the fact that they were going to divorce. The study was hung with strange, intricate Miao designs, and he always wore a chilling piece of ancient jade at his waist.
The strange things began after she sneaked into the study. She often felt as if there were bugs in her eyes, and parts of her body would split apart on their own...
Her lover, Yun Xi, said she and Qin Shiyue had no feelings for each other. She had married him only because he looked so much like her dead ex-boyfriend, Qi Che.
Qin Shiyue knew he was a substitute, and had always resented her for it.
Lin Sijiu began to watch her husband closely and wanted to escape the haunting presence of her ex-boyfriend's ghost.
Thousands of miles away, in a Miao village in the southwest, plum rains fell on the road to the Fuxi Divine Bones.
They said that if you offered incense and touched them with a sincere heart, you could recover your memories, even memories from a past life.
Lin Sijiu looked up the address and decided to go alone, but when she woke from a nap, she was already in a car headed southwest.
Strangely, her husband was driving, her younger lover was in the passenger seat, and beside them was the ex-boyfriend who haunted her night after night.
3.
The divine bones hold past lives; human skin bears the writing of the uncanny.
Those who love me may live, those who hate me may cling to me, and those who kill me must die.
Escape alive, and all debts will be settled.
As the sealed memories slowly came to light, Lin Sijiu finally remembered who she loved most.
White candles, deathless incense. In the red-curtained room, a woman's cheeks were wet.
At the height of passion, a large, bony hand reached out and seized her with fierce possessiveness.
Lin Sijiu had no idea where he had learned such a dirty trick. She smiled softly. "Mr. Qin, haven't we already decided to get divorced?"
Beneath the covers, a pair of wild, resentful black eyes suddenly lifted.
"Before you say that, shouldn't you check where your hand is? Ex-wife."
Highlights:
1. The heroine is not a virgin, while the male lead is. This time, I want to write a heroine who loves herself more than anything. That can sometimes make her seem ruthless or cold.
2. All three men have a history with the heroine, and each is crazy in his own way. One loves her, one hates her, and one wants to kill her.
3. Her ex-boyfriend was an awkward puppy in life and a deranged ghost after death. Her younger lover is an innocent, cruel, yandere boy.
[Blurb written in 2024, revised on October 11, 2026]
Theme: Love yourself
