When a modern soul falls into the old pages of The Butterfly Lovers, the moment Huang Liangyu opens her eyes before a bronze mirror, she knows she has become the book’s most foolish lovestruck woman: the young lady who forsakes her family and breaks off her engagement for a scoundrel, only to end up in the life of a courtesan.
Yu Yan opens her eyes and finds herself in The Butterfly Lovers as Huang Liangyu, the “foolish woman” condemned by history for eloping with a man, only to be cruelly abandoned. Once a carefree modern history buff, she is now trapped in a doomed romance. But she doesn’t believe in fate, and she refuses to be a disposable character in someone else’s story.
When she first enters the academy, she faces her cold-hearted fiancé, Zhu Yingqi; the sinister Qin Jingsheng; Zhu Yingtai, whose devotion is hard to shake; the earnest but hidebound Liang Shanbo; and the troublemaking Ma Wencai. Fate has already written her ending, but she’s determined to tear up the script. Armed with her knowledge of the plot and extraordinary intuition, she treads carefully through one storm after another, quietly rewriting everyone’s destiny.
An accident rekindles her old feelings for Zhu Yingqi, while a conspiracy thrusts her into the heart of a struggle for the nation. Amid the tangled love and hate, she finally understands that love is no shelter from the storm, but a trial to be endured. She is no longer a girl who only wants to talk about romance. She has become a woman tempered by war and political intrigue, with an edge all her own.
If love runs as deep as the sea, can it withstand a nation in ruins? When love and duty to one’s country stand side by side, what choice should one make?
Ma Wencai gets a pretty rough portrayal early on, but there’ll be a twist later.
