Nine Dragons Vie for the Throne: I Had a Dream, So How Did I Become Emperor?

[Disgraced Crown Prince] [Call Me Your Highness, Crown Prince] [Nine Dragons Vie for the Throne] [Five Dragons Rule Together] [Future Empress] [No System] [Plot-Driven] [Dreamworld] [Butterfly Effect] [Dream Loop] [Ensemble Cast]

“I was born into a royal family of nine dragons and five phoenixes. Starting when I was ten, I fell into the same dream every day, trapped in an endless loop. No matter what I did, the next day would begin all over again. It was as if I were caught in an endless nightmare...

I saw plenty of imperial physicians. They all said I suffered from nightmare sickness, but only I knew the dream felt utterly real! It wasn't fake!

I dreamed that dream for twenty years... from boyhood to middle age, from ninth prince to vassal king, and then to prisoner...

The immense gulf between reality and the dream drove me to the brink of madness time and again.

To keep myself from going mad, I did all sorts of outrageous things: setting fire to the imperial palace, sleeping with palace maids and imperial consorts, murdering my father to seize the throne... But gradually, even that grew tiresome.

In the dream, I saw the Crown Prince go mad, galloping down the imperial road and defying the emperor's authority...

I saw the Crown Prince raise an army in rebellion and stage a coup to seize the throne...

I saw the Crown Prince bound hand and foot and imprisoned for life in the Imperial Clan Court, and the struggle among the nine princes for the throne begin...

I saw the five dragons rule together...

I saw the future empress...

I always thought it was just a dream, until one day the Crown Prince really did go mad and gallop down the imperial road. And then I saw her, the woman from my dreams…”