Lost at five and brought home at fifteen, Shi Qi finds herself in a world already filled with a “replacement.”
Her parents lavish all the love they feel they owe her on their adopted daughter, Shi Qingqing, while her brother can barely hide his disdain. Framed and shunned, she goes from the family's cherished darling to the most alien “sinner” in the Shi household.
Then, at university, a man named Xiao Yi stands by her for no reason at all. He breaks through the haze to reach her, becoming the only light in her shadowed world.
Consumed by jealousy, Shi Qingqing gradually reveals her true nature, and a kidnapping and raging fire drive Shi Qi to the brink.
As she teeters between life and death amid the flames, she finally hears his heart-wrenching cry...
Then she wakes in a hospital bed, with her boyfriend Xiao Yi holding her hand, tears in his eyes.
The doctor says she has been unconscious for three months.
But what about those long eighteen years, that love and pain etched into her soul? Could it all have been just a dream?
Xiao Yi signs her up for the cutting-edge Dream Project. Only now does Shi Qi, whose full name is Shi Nianqi, realize that she had transmigrated into a novel she once read. And Xiao Yi crossed the barrier between reality and illusion just to hear her lost voice, wake her, and bring her home.
