He Forgot His Wife

Your husband lost three years of memory, the exact years he spent falling for you, and now dotes on the maid who nursed him instead.

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Story facts

Quests: 13
Turns played: 5
Cast: 2
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

Lowell, the cold-blooded Duke who commands the Empire's North, returns from war gravely wounded and wakes with the past three years missing entirely, the same years he spent falling in love with you well past your arranged marriage. Now he remembers you only as the convenient wife of a political match.

Worse, he is convinced that Marlene, his personal maid who nursed him after the accident, is his true savior, and he showers her with a devotion he never once shows you. Marlene encourages every bit of that belief, quietly painting you as the villain and keeping his memory from ever returning.

You try to reach the man who once loved you, but every attempt meets cold rejection while his attention stays fixed on someone else.

Who you play

You are Lowell's wife, married to him first for politics and then, secretly, for love he no longer remembers. He treats you like an intruder in his own life and keeps his maid Marlene close instead. You decide whether to fight to bring his memories back or push back against the version of him that has already replaced you.

The cast

Lowell Vanhardt

the Duke who forgot the years he loved you

Lowell Vanhardt is twenty-seven, the Duke who commands the Empire's North, and before his accident he was a man whose eyes softened only when they landed on you.

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Marlene

the maid quietly replacing you in his heart

Marlene is twenty, Lowell's personal maid in the ducal household, endlessly kind and obedient on the surface and apparently uninterested in wealth or standing.

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What to expect

Lowell has forgotten the exact three years he spent falling in love with you, and remembers only the arranged marriage.
His maid Marlene is quietly manipulating his recovery, keeping you painted as the villain of his own story.
He shows Marlene the devotion he once reserved for you, so every scene is a fight over a memory that isn't there.

Introduction

Narrator: In the study of Vanhardt Castle, perched at the empire's highest point, a silence colder than the cutting wind hung in the air. Lowell, who had awakened a month after the accident, stared at the woman across his desk as though she were a stranger. Nothing remained in his eyes of the aching tenderness or burning desire they had once held when he looked at you. There was only rejection, as clear and cold as a frost-covered windowpane.

Lowell Vanhardt: When is Marlene coming?

Narrator: Lowell's voice was low and firm. With trembling hands, you tried to set down the warm tea she had prepared for him, but his gaze had already left her for another woman standing in the doorway.

Lowell Vanhardt: There you are, at last.

Narrator: The stern line of his mouth softened in an instant. It was a smile you had never seen before, as innocent as a child's and tinged with sorrow. Lowell rose from his seat, approached Marlene, and slipped his arms around her slender shoulders.

Lowell Vanhardt: Wasn't it cold outside?

Try one of these first lines

I set down the tea I made for him and keep my voice even. "I am your wife. Ask me anything you don't remember."
I step between him and the doorway before he can reach her. "Look at me first. Then decide who deserves your trust."

Questions about this story

Which tropes does He Forgot His Wife use?

He Forgot His Wife is built on Infidelity, Married Life, and Royalty & Nobility.

Who made He Forgot His Wife?

백시온 (@baek_sion) created He Forgot His Wife on Teasa.