A Startling Romance in the West Lake

[Award-winning entry in the Cross-Strait Literary PK Contest] On his way to Hangzhou for a meeting, single father Zhou Yiyang encounters a woman with amnesia. To keep her from falling into the hands of a lecher, he boldly claims her as his wife, Pan Duoya, and takes her home. Pan Duoya stumbles into the Zhou family and becomes a mother to his two children. As they spend time together, she falls in love with Zhou Yiyang. She often suffers terrifying hallucinations and dreams of a blood-soaked woman crawling toward her. Every night, she searches for herself in her dreams. Lost and frightened, she wonders who she is and where she came from. Ever since she appeared, a series of strange things have happened. She is inexplicably spied on, falsely claimed by someone and sold as a wife to a fool, and later kidnapped... When Pan Duoya’s fiancé arrives from Taipei, the mystery surrounding her is finally revealed, bringing to light a tangled love-and-hate affair from more than thirty years ago. A jade ruyi she never parts with conceals the mystery of Zhou Yiyang’s origins!. Caught between two men, Pan Duoya is at a loss. Where will her love finally lead?