Mu Xuan is one of a pair of twins and the second princess of the Great Qian dynasty. Because twins are considered ill-omened, she has been imprisoned since childhood in a dark, lightless dungeon, while her elder sister, Mu Ning, enjoys all the splendor of a princess every day. The two sisters’ lives could not be more different.
He holds out his hand. “If the princess wishes to leave, become mine.”
He saves her from her living hell, and she begins to undress.
“What I want is to bring down Great Qian, not you, Princess.”
He becomes her tutor, then switches their identities. The real eldest princess is burned alive in the dungeon, and no one sheds a tear for her. The palace staff all believe the dead woman was Mu Xuan.
Overnight, she becomes Mu Ning, the exalted eldest princess.
His methods are ruthless. “Every gain comes at a cost.”
He uses her because she is useful to him.
Hao Yuan is a rare upright man in Great Qian. After meeting him a few times, she takes a liking to him.
Daoist Master Taiqing is skilled in medicine.
“The princess has been seeing things frequently of late. She has been poisoned with something called Nightmare. This poison muddles one’s memories, until in the end, life becomes worse than death...”
Everything is as illusory as a dream. She is Mu Ning, the real Mu Ning, the one he burned to death with his own hands, only to return from the dead...
Have their souls been switched, or has she been reborn?
“What else is there between us? We’re simply using each other.” She is merciless.
Yet at the brink of death, she takes a fatal arrow meant for him.
The eldest princess is dead.
His hair turns white overnight.
Was it Zhuang Zhou who dreamed he was a butterfly, or a butterfly who dreamed it was Zhuang Zhou...
