I Tricked the Amnesiac Tyrant into Being My Live-in Husband

Dr. Su Jinxiu, an exhausted emergency surgeon, dies after twenty hours of continuous surgery and transmigrates into the body of a woman with the same name in a historical novel. The original host was a notorious village woman who squandered her family fortune on a deceitful scholar, Liu Ziqing, only to be abandoned and insulted. To exact revenge, she had purchased a severely beaten slave, Huo Chen, intending to break his spirit. However, Su Jinxiu quickly realizes that Huo Chen is not merely a victim but the future tyrant of the novel, a ruthless warlord destined to order her execution by slow slicing. Upon waking, she finds him in a state of critical injury with retrograde amnesia. Facing his immediate lethal attack, she feigns being his devoted wife, claiming she pawned her dowry to save him. This gamble stabilizes the situation, allowing her to begin treating his life-threatening wounds.

Equipped with a system called the Merit Medical Space, Su Jinxiu possesses modern medical knowledge and supplies that she can access by earning merit points through healing others. She performs emergency surgery on Huo Chen’s compound leg fracture and internal bleeding, saving his life. Her actions are observed by Huo Chen, who remains deeply suspicious of her true identity and motives. Despite his amnesia, his combat instincts and paranoia persist. When Su Jinxiu’s abusive relatives, led by her second uncle Su Daqiang, attempt to seize Huo Chen to sell him into slavery, Su Jinxiu defends him using precise anatomical knowledge, disabling their attackers by striking pressure points and nerves. This display of skill further deepens Huo Chen’s intrigue, as he recognizes her knowledge exceeds that of a common peasant woman.

As Huo Chen recovers, the two form a pragmatic alliance. Su Jinxiu needs his protection and strength to survive in a hostile environment, while Huo Chen requires her medical care and assistance in regaining his strength and memories. They venture into the mountains to gather medicinal herbs, which Su Jinxiu sells in town to secure funds. During a trip to Qingstone Town, they encounter Liu Ziqing, the scholar who ruined the original host’s life. Liu is being beaten by debt collectors. Su Jinxiu intervenes, not out of lingering affection, but to settle old scores. She ruthlessly strips him of his assets, including a jade pendant from another woman, and hands him over to the collectors, effectively erasing the threat from her past. This incident demonstrates her transformation from the original host’s timid self into a calculating and vindictive survivor.

The couple returns to their dilapidated home, where they face further threats from Su Daqiang and his thugs. During a nighttime intrusion attempt, Huo Chen, despite his injuries, fights off the attackers with lethal precision using a short blade. Su Jinxiu uses the chaos to extort ten taels of silver from Su Daqiang as compensation for damages and emotional distress. The incident solidifies their partnership; Huo Chen begins to trust her capability, and Su Jinxiu recognizes his value as a formidable ally. They establish defensive traps around their home and begin to build a semblance of normalcy, sharing meals and sleeping in close proximity for warmth. Huo Chen’s cold exterior gradually softens as he experiences care and protection for the first time, though he remains guarded about his past.

The story follows their daily efforts to survive and prepare for future dangers. Su Jinxiu continues to treat minor injuries in the village to earn merit points for essential medical supplies like antibiotics. Huo Chen trains in secret, regaining his combat prowess while hiding his true identity. Their relationship evolves from mutual suspicion to a complex bond of dependency and growing affection. As Huo Chen’s memories begin to flicker back, he struggles with the duality of his past as a tyrant and his present life with Su Jinxiu. The narrative sets the stage for conflicts with external enemies and the revelation of Huo Chen’s true status, forcing Su Jinxiu to navigate the dangerous political landscape of the novel while protecting the man she has come to care for.