After Shen Linzhang fell from his horse and lost his memory, the House of Shen fell out of imperial favor.
Everyone avoided them as if they carried the plague.
Only I begged my father to let me marry into the Shen household at its most precarious hour.
Shen Linzhang had the mind of a child.
He understood nothing of worldly affairs; he knew only that I was his wife.
Three years later, the woman general who had guarded the frontier rode back to the capital.
The instant he saw her, Shen Linzhang was seized by a splitting headache.
A moment later, he abandoned me, vaulted onto a horse, and galloped after her.
When we met again, his eyes were clear.
He handed me a letter of divorce.
He said that I had been raised in the inner courtyard like a bird in a cage and had never seen how vast the world was.
He declared that the love of his life was a brilliant, valiant woman general like Feiying.
He spoke with easy arrogance, his chin held high.
Then I calmly accepted the letter.
This time, he was the one left speechless.
