[Mistaken turns of fate + past and present lives + heartbreaking romance and regrets + bad ending]
Li Anning thought she would spend her whole life clinging to a dream, until her birthday banquet.
By chance, she discovered that Qi Yu, a hostage prince from the Yong Kingdom, looked exactly like Changning from her dreams!!!
She forced him to divorce his wife and made him become her consort.
She saw Qi Yu only as a stand-in for Changning.
But as she spent day after day with Qi Yu, her heart gradually began to wander.
She could no longer tell whether the person before her was Changning or Qi Yu.
Nor could she tell whether she loved Changning or Qi Yu.
It was only one day that she discovered the truth: the dream wasn’t a dream. She was just an NPC being used.
Thus began the unraveling of a story that had been five hundred years in the making.
Qi Yu thought he would spend his whole life as a prince oppressed by others in the Yong royal palace.
Then he had a dream. In it, a woman named An’an waited her whole life for a man named Changning.
And he looked exactly like this man named Changning.
He learned by chance that An’an was a princess of the Daye Kingdom. Using every means at his disposal, he went to Daye as a hostage, using his face to marry her and her status to help him seize the throne of Yong.
But when one dream after another came to him, he discovered that their connection was far more complicated. Their entanglement had begun five hundred years ago.
And someone else was the Changning in the dreams.
Thus came to light the regret of two lovers who, through seven cycles of reincarnation, could never be together.
