What, You Didn't Know? I'm the Song Dynasty's Little White Lotus

[The Refined, Scheming Beauty on High × The Innocent White Lotus with a Flair for Drama]

Alternate World × Sweet Romance × Past Lives and Present

[Unofficial Blurb, From the Hero's Perspective]

In my dreams, I star in a tragic romance with a beautiful woman in ancient costume.

In real life, I get up close and personal with a beautiful woman the very first time we meet!

No, no! I'm not into women, okay? I politely turned her down!

Ahem, wait, why can't I push her away?

Forget it, forget it. I'll go along with it. Maybe I'll make the first move next time!

[The Proper, Straightforward Blurb]

A thousand-year-old lotus seed unearthed from the Song Dynasty blooms in the present day. The news immediately trends online, and photos and videos of the ancient lotus spread across the media.

At the same time, netizens discover that the white lotus in the Song Dynasty painting “Untangled and Unbranched,” by Xu Qianshan, a master of flower-and-bird painting, is identical to the blooming ancient lotus in every detail!

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Xu Mibai, a key researcher at the Cangsheng Institute of Botany, has been dreaming frequently ever since the ancient lotus seed was unearthed.

In his dreams, a scholar paints in a winding corridor. Though white lotuses fill his view, he paints only one of them.

There is also a woman in his dreams, wearing a yellow-and-white pleated skirt and a jade lotus hairpin, but he can never make out her face.

Then one day, half asleep and half awake, he sees the ancient lotus transform into a woman.

A white bandeau, a yellow skirt, a lotus hairpin. At last, he sees the woman from his dreams, here in the real world...