Cui Yuan is the legitimate daughter of the Qinghe Cui clan. With skin as smooth as ice and bones as delicate as jade, she is so beautiful and alluring that she is hailed as the greatest beauty in Yanjing.
She has been doted on since childhood, and is spoiled and willful by nature.
At a spring banquet, she clashes with several other noble ladies and is pushed into a pond. That evening, she comes down with a high fever and remains unconscious for three days.
In a daze, Cui Yuan has a dream.
In the dream, a tutor soon comes to live at the Cui estate. Handsome, refined, and aloof, he is like a bright, flawless moon.
His looks leave her utterly bewitched, and she pursues him for a while. But before long, she loses interest in his taciturn ways, quickly moves on, and forgets all about him. The very next day, she becomes engaged to the young marquis of the Donglin Marquisate.
Who would have thought that on her wedding day, she would be carried off to his estate, trapped in his bedchamber night after night, walking on eggshells and living in constant fear?
Only later does she learn that the man is Meng Zhao, the Grand Secretary who now commands all the attention in Yanjing.
When she wakes, Cui Yuan is terrified and resolves to stay far away from him.
Only after nothing that happens matches her dream does she finally relax and marry the young marquis of the Donglin Marquisate in peace.
But on her wedding day, a group of people storm in. Blades flash, and blood stains the courtyard red.
The man steps inside, his white robe untouched by a speck of dust. His gaze is cool and his voice carries a hint of mocking amusement. "Nuonuo, how dare you marry someone else behind my back?"
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Meng Zhao has a dream.
In it, he soon loses his memory and wanders to Qinghe, where he meets a woman.
She makes him break every rule he has ever lived by. He forcibly takes her from another man's hands and keeps her imprisoned in his bedchamber night after night, destroying his reputation for the rest of his life.
After waking, he avoids all contact with the woman, thinking he can forget everything.
But when news of her wedding reaches him, a pair of moist, beautiful eyes flash through his mind. Meng Zhao swallows, but still cannot resist carrying her off to his estate.
If he cannot let her go, then he will not.
Even if they spend the rest of their lives tangled together and lost in each other, that is better than being alone.
Theme: Everyone deserves to be loved.