Dream Prefecture

A Jianghu mystery | Mutual devotion | A sweet road-trip romance | Ensemble cast

[Wildly versatile sunflower girl & top-tier ascetic assassin]

Dreamzhou, the prosperous city at the emperor’s feet, is filled with singing houses and dance pavilions, pearls and emeralds, silks and brocades.

The Qu family opened a world-renowned bookshop there, with a vast collection of books and scholars from every corner of the land.

Qu Zhen knows that one day, she will become the owner of that bookshop.

But in the summer of Guangsheng Year Seven, everything changed.

That year, determined to reclaim the bookshop that had changed hands after her father’s death, Qu Zhen spent a fortune hiring an assassination organization to kill someone.

Then, to uncover the truth behind her father’s murder, she left her sheltered life and, bracing herself, ventured alone into the Jianghu’s treacherous web of mysteries, with only a horse for company.

Along the way, she encountered all kinds of people.

Some made moves like pieces on a chessboard, watching the heavens and pronouncing on life and death. Some endured hardship and bided their time, using the blood of their own kin to deepen their evil. And some quietly opened her heart with a blade barely half a foot long...

When she first met the gold-robed assassin renowned for never missing a kill, she was his employer.

Lucky enough to travel together, she benefited from his protection thanks to the reward money, and he looked after her more than a little.

Days later, when they met again in a foreign land, she had become his prey.

The gold-robed assassin had no name. After ten years of bloody work, he had risen to the top of the assassin rankings, earning the codename Shadow One.

Shadow One had no heart. But after meeting Qu Zhen, flesh and blood miraculously grew in the long-rotted hollow in his chest.

Before You Read

1. One-on-one romance, both leads are each other’s first and only, happy ending. The romance is a slow burn with no angst.

2. No golden finger. The heroine will be tricked, suffer setbacks, and get hurt when she first enters the Jianghu, but she will grow little by little.

3. The plot and romance are split evenly. The mystery plot will later involve court conspiracies.

4. Ensemble cast, fictional dynasty, mixed settings.

Theme: True love can move heaven and earth, and the written word can transform the world.