I slowly opened my eyes. Everything around me was hazy, as if I had entered another world. Where was I? I looked around and saw flowers in full bloom and fragrance filling the air, a place utterly unlike the Forbidden City where I had once lived.
Another name echoed in my mind. "Your surname is An." Those were the first words I heard after waking, and this was now who I was. I got up and found myself standing on a stone path, with blooming flowers on either side and butterflies dancing in the air. I looked down at myself. I was wearing simple clothes, no longer dressed in elaborate palace robes. An inexplicable emotion welled up inside me
