Shen Yishu has had precognitive dreams since she was a child.
She dreamed that her brother Xiao An's face was red and swollen, and it came true when she woke up; she dreamed that someone was covering her up in the snow, and she was convinced that the person must be her childhood sweetheart Gu Qingyun.
Gu Qingyun was as gentle as jade and treated her very well. The two families were of the same family, so the marriage should have been a natural progression.
Until one snowy night, the down-and-out young man Xie Siyuan broke into Shen's house, breaking everything she had been sure of.
He was scarred and came to Beijing alone; he was cold and taciturn, but he always left her a choice when she was in the most embarrassing situation.
At the same time, the Gu family wanted to gain power through marriage and proposed "marrying both families together"; the life experience and love hidden by the personal maid Qing Xing for many years also surfaced after a drunken incident. Only then did Shen Yishu realize that the love, family affection, dignity and stability she thought she had were just a web that had been woven long ago.
On the wedding day, the phoenix crown fell and red silk flew everywhere.
Everyone was waiting for her to get on the sedan chair.
But she finally understood that if she didn't escape today, she would never be able to escape again in this life.
Intent: A woman who can predict the future must ultimately learn not to escape her fate, but to recognize which choices really come from her. "Dream" here is not just a fantasy setting. Yishu can dream about what is going to happen, but she may not be able to understand the person and herself in front of her. She thought that love, dignity, marriage, and being cherished were all certain happiness; but the facts gradually made her realize that many "natural" lives had actually been chosen by family, identity, rules, and fear. On a deeper level, it is also about the different fates between women: Yi Shu and Qing Xing are not a simple master-servant or rescuer relationship. One has a choice but doesn't know how to choose; one longs for freedom but is still trapped by love and identity. Together they illuminate the same question: How can a person recognize his own heart if he has never been allowed to live for himself? So it's not an "either/or" love story, nor is it just "escaping from a divorce." It is about a girl who goes from believing in destiny to doubting destiny; from seeing the future to seeing herself.