Three ex-husbands and a marriage

Memory loss

I'm in a state of shock, one minute I am swimming leisurely and the next minute the ex-husband drops from above. Previously, after I drank my fill of the previously sweet water, I started to feel grimy. I had thought that since this was an uninhabited island, I could freely clean myself. I took advantage of the hot sun to clean and dry my clothes. While waiting for the clothes to dry I went in for a swim, something I have done since I transmigrated into this world.

Since I came here, I found out that it was extremely uncommon for people to know how to swim. That skill belongs to the fisherman who lived along the coast. I felt like it has been an eternity since I have been able to completely submerge myself in the crisp cool water and swam around happily.

Just as I started relaxing and comfortable in my own skin I heard a loud splash behind me. I screamed as I saw the human dive deep into the water. It appears that he had jumped off the edge of the cliff next to the waterfall. I tried to run but he re-emerged from the water too quickly and hugged my body. I froze at that moment, filled with shock and disbelief.

Hu Xuan?

The random person who jumped and appeared behind me is the husband who disappeared on my wedding day!

I wanted to kick and punch him but now, in this state of complete nakedness, I am being held inside is large powerful arms and suffocatingly pressed up against his hard body. This is the first time I have so close and ambiguous with a man, and every inch of my skin burned as it brushed against his muscles. The man's flaming hot body and the tactile stimuli brought about flashes of explicit love making scenes from the novel, starring Hu Xuan and his large prowess.

Due to our height difference my cheeks rest neatly against his solid chest, while his hardness pressed into my stomach. Not to mention the squished mounds, this ambiguous position was usually a start of hours of intense pleasure and cries. My throat felt parched and my heart beat wildly. This is all my fault, having spent so much time reading the explicit novel and memorising every single hot detail.

My eyes inadvertently caught the impressive muscles underneath the usually loose clothes, that is now clinging tightly to his body. Even the eight pack abs could be seen as if nature colluded with him to show off ever fine details on this man. 

I closed my eyes, my body tempted to feel him a-bit more to satisfy my fantasy, but reason returned to me before I could drown in lust. It was difficult as I mastered my self control as I pushed him away to preserve my sanity. Please understand that I have never been intimate with a normal looking man, let alone a handsome one such as he and I had spent too much time fantasying about the characters so the temptation  to grope him is really...really strong.

As expected he resisted and held onto me tighter, but and I became more determined to fight and escape. Nestled within his iron like arms I felt that resistance was futile so I called on my inner mad dog to fight. I was about to take a bite when I felt his overcoat completely cover me.

"Please...let me hold you for a little while, I promise I will not do anything," he whispered as he stroked my wet hair with one hand and wrapped my naked body within his thin overcoat with the other.

I stopped struggling and glared at him.

"You have no right to request that, let me go!" I said through gritted teeth.

He smiled forceful, the lights didn't quite reach his eyes and the slightly awkward smile gave off a sense of melancholy. I bit my lips as my body continued to tense up. He softened his gaze and raised a hand to brush the curtain of my damp hair from covering my face.

"Let me help you cover up, don't be afraid I promise, I will not do anything you don't want," he said in a low sexy voice.

Phew, it seems like he just wanted to dress me. Despite my anger, I felt myself blushing at his words. The crux of the matter is that this man's voice is too seductive. What game is he playing at?

"Are you a fairy?" he asked in that same sexy whisper.

I raised my eyebrows incredulously, not understanding his question. Has he gone mad or is this a new pickup line?

"You must be a fairy...of course, why else are you here...in the place where you are...right at the time when I had no remaining will to live...you came to save me and gave me purpose," he said with a smouldering sexy smile and funnily contrasted adoring puppy like eyes that scanned every inch of my face.

"Young Master Hu, you jest...don't play dumb! Anyways why are you insulting me by calling me a fairy? Haha...clearly satirising me plight by is cruel. Aren't I the woman you left at the wedding altar only to run away with your beloved? I have no time or energy to pursue this issue with you. Let me go otherwise I will bite!" I spoke with a small derisive laugh and pushed him away.

He sighed and loosen his hold on me. Finally I managed to free myself and made my way towards the embankment where my clothes are drying under the golden sun.

"I'm sorry...I don't remember anything...she says I have memory loss...every day is a new day and the past is a black impenetrable wall that I can not trespass. Fairy...please tell me your name?" he pleaded.

"Memory lost? Hu Xuan, you must be joking right? Didn't your wife tell you that you had an ex-wife? The one whom you forced to marry and the heartlessly abandoned? Haha...men...memory loss is such a clique plot line!" I sneered.

I know it is an ugly colour on me, but truth be told I thought I had buried the hurt from suffering those months of insults and malicious gossips but clearly I hadn't. Seeing him again made all the pain swelled back unexpectedly and in its rightful place. I wanted to give him a tongue lashing but unfortunately I have very little combative experience. That was the best words I could muster up at that moment.

He held his head and looked at me with an expression of a bewildered child. His eyes watered and his voice cracked as if he genuinely felt pain. A pain that is so deep and mysterious that I couldn't help but regret my own harsh words.

"How could I leave you? You are my fairy....my woman...but I really don't remember. Fairy, even though I would lose my memory daily, I am sure of one thing. There would have been no way I could have left you on our wedding day. My heart hurts so terribly with the thought of parting from you. So if I could marry you, there are no number of horses or women could drag me from you...you are the woman that appears in my dreams and it appears, the only one I love," he said with a voice filled with conviction.

Hu Xuan didn't look like he is lying and the message in his eyes began to win my trust. I sighed, it seems like Second Brother must have done something to mess with his memory. This explains why he has been missing all these months despite the imperial pardon. Come to think of it, my Second Brother's character has become much more mysterious and possibly dangerous.

If I make it back alive, I don't know how I will face him. Something tells me that the novel barely scratched the surface of this world and it is linked to him. My gut and years of reading web novels and living vicariously through their characters  have given me enough experience to know that anything can happen in these fantasy worlds.

"Close your eyes and turn around. I need to change now, so you must not look!" I commanded pointing at him to move it.

He nodded and gave me a last look before submerging his whole body into the water. I guess that's fine with me, as long as he can't see me changing it's better this way.

I climbed out of the water and hastily ran towards the tree where my clothes are hanging. Hu Xuan's cloak is made for temperate climate, and constructed from thin silk. So thin that in water it is almost see-through, abit like our modern day organzas. I looked down at the exposed body as the wet cloth clung onto my skin. Apart from the seam lines every thing was transparent! I angrily threw away the dress and quickly put on my more elaborate and layered clothes.

Since I have transmigrated I have adapted to the world's more conservative dress. Exposing skin in shorts and shirts is impossible let along expose my whole body to a man!

It was as if he timed it exactly because as soon as I finished wrapping my waist belt he re-emerged from the water. His chiseled good looks, long hair and broad muscly chest re-emerged like a slow motion music video without the music.

Oh my...my heart involuntarily shook, like anyone will in front of beautiful people. I must have spaced out because I blinked and he was right in front of me and again invading in my personal space.

"Stand back, you're too close Hu Xuan... you need to stay an arm length away from me, understand..." I said firmly and pointed at his chest with my extended finger.