A Deep Bond, a Fleeting Dream, a Sea of Hate, a Sky of Love

“Casual Notes: Deep Bonds, Shallow Dreams” Synopsis The thousand-year-old white fox Liu Linyan once wandered the world under the name Liu Yurou. She personally witnessed her entire clan slaughtered by the Ling Snakes, and her blood feud was etched into her very bones. When a spatial upheaval cast her into Daying, she met and fell in love with Emperor Li Yan, becoming his empress. But the cruel truth came crashing down: her beloved husband was the very leader of the Ling Snakes who had destroyed her clan. Love and hatred tore at her heart. Even knowing the bloody feud between them, she still threw herself in front of him to take a poisoned arrow meant to kill him. As she lay dying, she learned that Li Yan had known her identity all along but had chosen to hide the truth, hoping they could set his sins aside and spend the rest of their lives together. They both perished, and their souls returned to the demon realm. Liu Linyan resolved to break free of fate. She met the free-spirited and sincere Chi Yuan, and enjoyed a century of peace and happiness. But Li Yan crossed the cycle of reincarnation to find her, consumed by obsession and jealousy, and killed Chi Yuan with his own hands. Having lost the one she loved, Liu Linyan pretended to submit and prepared two cups of poisoned wine. The love and hatred, blood feud, and obsession that had entangled them across two lifetimes finally came to an end with their shared poisoned toast, bringing the tangled affair of deep bonds and shallow dreams to its final conclusion.