[Disgraced Crown Prince + Call Me Crown Prince, Your Majesty + The Nine Dragons’ Struggle for the Throne + Five Dragons in Court + Future Empress + No System + Plot-Driven + Dream-Driven + Butterfly Effect + Dream Loop + Ensemble Cast]
“I was born into a royal family of nine dragons and five phoenixes. Ever since I was ten, I’ve been trapped every day in the same recurring dream. No matter what I do, the next day everything starts over again, as if I’m caught in an endless nightmare...
“I’ve seen plenty of imperial physicians. They all say I suffer from nightmares, but only I know how real that dream is! It doesn’t feel fake at all!
“I’ve had this dream for twenty years... From boyhood to middle age, from the Ninth Prince to a vassal king, and then a prisoner...
“The vast gulf between reality and the dream drove me to the brink of madness time and again.
“To keep myself from going mad, I did many outrageous things: setting fire to the imperial palace, sleeping with palace maids and imperial consorts, killing my father and seizing the throne... But gradually, even that grew tiresome.
“In the dream, I saw the Crown Prince go mad, gallop his horse down the imperial road, and defy the authority of the throne...
“I saw the Crown Prince raise an army in rebellion and stage a coup to seize the throne...
“I saw the Crown Prince bound hand and foot and imprisoned for life in the Imperial Clan Court, as the struggle among the nine princes for the throne began...
“I saw the Five Dragons in Court...
“I saw the future empress...
“I always thought it was just a dream, until one day the Crown Prince really did go mad and gallop down the imperial road. And then I saw her, the woman of the future...”
Okay, very ups and downs, satisfied