Shan Yu once held privilege as heir to a prestigious traditional Chinese medicine family—wealth, standing, and security. A man convinced of his heterosexuality, he never envisioned sharing his life with another man, least of all one bearing the stigma of an abandoned wife. This stranger arrived starving and impoverished, dressed in tatters, a blood-red birthmark marking the corner of one eye. Yet despite his wretched state, he protected his belly and knelt trembling before Shan Yu: "Husband, I have failed you…" Suddenly, Shan Yu becomes the sole provider—and to society's judgment, a dissolute man who indulges vice and harms his wife. His immediate concerns materialize: secure food, earn income, establish a medicine shop, obtain proper housing, and restore his wife's malnourished health while mastering the role of dutiful husband. But what became of his certainty? Did they truly agree to this union out of sheer necessity and compassion, two souls bound only by circumstance? Each evening, beneath lamplight, Shan Yu observes the impossible: his wife transforms before his eyes. Her skin clears, features sharpen, a quiet radiance emerges. He can no longer deny the truth—his wife was never ugly at all. How had he been so blind? [A story of a man thrust through time who discovers how his heterosexual heart bends unexpectedly toward love]