Two people in love both lose their memories and start new families. Later, one of them regains their memories. What will become of them?
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They say that ghosts with lingering obsessions cannot enter the cycle of reincarnation.
One day, a female ghost named Jiang Shuisheng came to the Yellow Springs Inn.
The innkeeper, Hua Niangzi, asked, "I'm curious. What kind of memory has kept you from crossing over for three hundred years?"
Jiang Shuisheng replied calmly, "I don't remember." Not remembering was the reason she couldn't cross over.
Because she had jumped into the River of Oblivion.
The waters of the River of Oblivion in the underworld can erase all memories of one's past life, while its waters in the mortal world can make one forget the past.
Luo Qinghe: Cutting out your heart is the most solemn vow of all. If a man is willing to give you his heart, that proves how deeply he loves you.
Chen Yu: Sister-in-law, let me take care of you from now on.
A Pu: Do you like the gift I gave you, miss?
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Only after finishing this did I realize the River of Oblivion premise seems a lot like Li Gouzi and Xiao Feng. Damn that river, is it going to tear apart another pair of lovers?
River of Oblivion: How is that my fault?
[Reading Guide]
1. The story features melodramatic plotlines including a gold-digging pretty boy marrying into a wealthy family to inherit its fortune, adulterous lovers dying together, a forbidden relationship between a younger brother-in-law and his sister-in-law, taking advantage of someone with amnesia, and a jealous wicked servant betraying their master.
2. The Yellow Springs Inn setting mainly serves to introduce the story. This is not a supernatural tale, but an ordinary historical romance.
Theme: The human heart is hard to fathom, and love scatters more easily than sand.
