The Cast-Off Daughter Takes Her Sister's Place: Her Former Lover Calls Her Sister-in-Law

Jiang Yuyao was falsely accused and cast aside by her family in a country estate. Then, on a stormy night, a thief stumbled in, gravely wounded. She had meant to beat him to death and be done with it, but in the candlelight, his face looked uncannily like someone she once knew. She changed her mind and let him stay at the estate to recover. When the young man awoke, she lied and told him she was a merchant's daughter. He said he had lost his memory and could recall nothing of his past. He fell in love with her at first sight, picking flowers to make her hairpins and dancing with a sword for her. When bandits attacked, he risked his life to protect her. As the affection in his eyes grew hotter by the day, Jiang Yuyao only grew more anxious. How could the daughter of a duke or marquis marry a thief of unknown origins? She used a craving for pastries from the neighboring city as an excuse to send him away, then abandoned him and returned to the capital overnight. When the young man returned with the pastries, he went mad at the sight of the deserted estate. He searched every inch of the grounds, but could not find her. The local farmers still remember how the usually cheerful, smiling young man became a terrifying demon, not a trace of his former vitality left. Back in the capital, Jiang Yuyao's father forced her to marry her younger sister's betrothed, Pei Xingjian, the Great General Who Guards the State, who was away at war and whose fate was unknown. On the wedding day, Pei Xingjian was still nowhere to be found. But the day after the wedding, her husband, rumored to have died in battle, returned, with the young man she had once taken in and then abandoned standing at his side. Only… he seemed not to remember her.