The Dreamer in the Spring Boudoir

Chapter 1: A Strange Dream

Part I: I came here through a dream

"I can't accept this! I can't! Even as a ghost, I'm going to spend eternity cursing that your relationship will shatter like glass! Break apart like a pair of mandarin ducks that fly away from each other!" The second female lead spat out blood as she faced the sky and shouted.

"You worthless and malevolent-hearted creature. You conspired to murder my heir and tried to frame Wen Wan. This marquis will bestow three feet of white silk today for you to resolve this issue!" The male lead coldly waved his hand.

"Ah Xuan, don't do this!" The kind-hearted female lead pulled the male lead's sleeve and piteously entreated, "Don't kill her!"

"No matter what happens to me, Nie Sangyu, it's none of your business. I don't need you to beg for me!" The second female lead raised her face to the sky and laughed for a long time while tears streamed down from her face."

"But I can't accept this... I can't..."

This was a ridiculously melodramatic book. If she hadn't been bored at home during the weekend, Ji Man wouldn't have browsed through the light novel website on her phone and read this story. But, when she read up to this point, she couldn't help sighing.

According to modern ideas, the second female lead had married the male lead first. The female lead should have been considered the other woman. But, the male lead loved the female lead instead of the second female lead, so the second female lead became the other woman. After many crafty plots by the second female lead, she had been ordered to commit suicide by the male lead.

Ji Man shook her head and whispered, "This is really destroying the three teachings too much."

(T/N: The three teachings refer to the philosophies of Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism.)

Her eyes felt tired from reading, so she simply turned off her phone's screen. She didn't even have to think to know this novel's ending. After the second female lead was gotten rid of, the male and female lead would have a happily ever after.

She had found it slightly interesting when the second female lead had been an obstacle in their path. Now that the second female lead was going to die soon, there was nothing left to see.

Ji Man yawned, turned off the light, pulled up her blanket to cover her head, and went to sleep. However, before she fell asleep, she couldn't help thinking. Wasn't it also because Nie Sangyu was too stupid?

"My lord, you're the only person that I ever loved in this entire lifetime. Whereas you..."

"Her life is a life. Is my life worth nothing to you? Don't forget. I was once your bride that was carried through the main doors by a palanquin with eight carriers*."

(T/N: This means that she was married into the household as his legal wife.)

The character's lines kept echoing in Jiman's mind. As Jiman slowly sank into sleep, she laughed at the woman for being so foolish and stupid.

"I can't accept this..." A voice traveled from the depths of Ji Man's dream.

Ji Man slightly furrowed her eyebrows and looked towards the boundless darkness. In a seldom seen calmness, she calmly asked, "So what if you can't accept this?"

"Help me... help me... I can't reincarnate with my dream unfulfilled..."

"Why is it any of my business if you can't reincarnate?" Ji Man rolled her eyes.

The boundless darkness rose up to drown her. Ji Man's eyes widen. For a moment, it felt as if she had lost her breath. Her head felt like it was spinning. The world changed into a formless mass of chaos. It felt as if she was falling down an unending black hole.