My Heroic Husband - This one has a peculiar frame. The main character was featured in a present day cartoon as a businessman action hero. When the project is cancelled, its creator asks permission to use the same character with a different name, different time, different face. After that we only see the character, hundreds of years earlier, on his way to an arranged married as a matrilocal husband to a female silk merchant (she must have a husband to keep her independence from her family). He isn't remotely handsome and initially seems something of a buffoon. And seemingly has his memories intact.
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