Splendor Like a Dream

One person, one lifetime; one heart, one beloved. Half in a dream, half awake, half a fleeting life.

Before he met her, he was just a carefree young gentleman.

After he met her, he wanted only to devote his whole life to waiting for her.

But people meet and part, like spring blossoms that bloom at dawn and wither by dusk.

Five years ago, she smiled brightly and asked him without hesitation, "Do you have someone in your heart?"

Five years later, everything had changed. Her eyes brimmed with tears as she forced a smile. "Wen Jin, it's been five years. You seem to have lost weight."

That simple greeting said everything about how much they'd missed each other.

But...

The past is like water, leaving no trace. What does tonight mean, when you have become a stranger to me?

On a lonely, deserted night, he asked with a hollow look, "Where has Lan Che gone? The one who never backed down, even when danger came, and was so fierce she'd gladly sacrifice her life?"

In the grand hall, she told him without betraying her feelings, "That's right, I've changed, because I want a better life."

Dew gathers on the jade steps, soaking silk stockings in the long night. She lowers the crystal curtain and gazes at the bright autumn moon.

The seemingly tragic course of her life was actually a scheme orchestrated by someone else...

She wiped away her tears, dampening her sleeve, and silently vowed to stop endlessly enduring and yielding.

"Heaven above, I, Lan Che, a humble believer, have always been mild-mannered and lived quietly in Daming Prefecture, harming no one. I never imagined my fate would be so cruel, that disaster would strike and leave my father dead and my husband gone, while I was trapped in the imperial harem, with no control over my own life. I swear I will endure and yield no longer. I will repay every hurt I have suffered many times over, until my vengeance is complete. May heaven and humanity bear witness."

Through the bustling mortal world, in the end, all that remains is a trail of fallen flowers...