Life Is but a Dream: Qingcheng Yinggu

Ye Qingtang is known throughout the world as “the red-blooming flower across the river of death, a beauty who can captivate all under heaven!” Carefree as a begonia, yet as merciless as the flower of the other shore, she is the princess of the Flower Realm and the mistress of A Dreamlike Life. Her beauty is beyond compare, and she helps men and women alike cast aside the distracting thoughts in their hearts. Though born to noble station, one decree from the Heavenly Emperor makes her the future Crown Prince’s bride? The Crown Princess? Oh, heavens! To escape the betrothal, she founded A Dreamlike Life and began appearing behind a veil, trading for the things lovesick men and women longed for. Hundreds of years passed. Was that the end of it? No! Somehow, she got entangled with Xie Lian, the Qingxuan Venerable Lord, a figure of great authority in the Six Realms and the one hailed as their foremost “beautiful master.” The usually aloof and indifferent Qingxuan Venerable Lord, seemingly beyond anyone’s reach, had turned into a shameless pest. He clung to Yinggu all day long. Where had all that aloofness gone? “Xiao Lian, could you stop clinging to me all the time? I’m your future Crown Princess!” “I know. So what? We can just call off the engagement!” “Xie Lian! Where’s your dignity? Your aloofness? Weren’t you supposed to be beyond anyone’s reach?” “What’s dignity? Can you eat it? Is it prettier than my wife?” “I’m not your wife!” “That won’t do. You can’t escape my grasp. In every life, for all eternity, you can only ever belong to me.”