Episode Title: Let Go of Yourself
Song Yi Meng is stopped by Nan Heng as she leaves the execution ground. She refuses to listen to his explanation and instead demands that he give an answer to the Night Wandering Gods, who were still desperately defending him even on the eve of the execution.
(Source: Viu)
- Aired: July 06, 2025
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A Dream within a Dream Episode 25 Reactions
More than halfway through and I'm wondering, 'what is the actual point of her character?'
Based on the original script before she got here, from her perspective, she is the focal point of the entire drama. Yet, isn't he the starring IDOL role with all the fame & glory while she's just a bit actress who they're giving an opportunity to because an IDOL actress wouldn't play second fiddle to his stardom? Has she lost this fact?
As I recall, not going back to watch the beginning, there should only be 2 major scenes left: 1) his rise to power; 2) her untimely death.
On one hand she's fighting tooth and nail to "change" her destiny. On the other hand she bad mouths, insults, schemes against, lies, deceives, doesn't trust him then rejects any of his good deeds as scheming himself basically because she believes HIS part of the story can never change. Then she calls him a 'hypocrite'. With the original fact that she's a bit actress playing opposite a STAR, how does she reconcile trying to cause him an untimely demise? Like, isn't this too rich?? She talks out of both sides of her mouth. Blaming him for being the never changing "villain" while believing she can fight 'destiny' and walk away from him. After 25 episodes, her double standards and pigheaded attitude just grate and get under my skin.
So at this point, and based on the OG script, which should actually center around HIM since he is the Top Bill and the ACTUAL focal point, the only point I can see her character being is to actually be the MAIN villain who is just another person who never listens, falsely accuses and manipulates against him. She is the person, now, who CONSTANTLY hurts him the most. Open up old wound after old wound only to pour salt in it. She never endingly tells him how much she hates him and wants to kill him and for him to be dead.
Then WHY in the world would she think, when he rises to power, quells all his past naysayers, that he would love, respect and keep her, the biggest naysayer of them all?? Wouldn't it be HIS ARC to win over them all, INCLUDING HER, and gain his true love and happiness?? Why would that include her??? She's a bitch!! lul.
Lastly, this started out like a slapstick comedy. All the standard palace antics of scheming and murder were put under the arc of comedy. For the last 5-6 episodes, it has been far from funny. It all of a sudden moved from the main premise of the OG drama to an actual standard serious palace drama. Honestly, I already predicted this would happen because isn't the drama in a drama, dream in a dream a script ploy in itself? It's just a way to get around CCP censorship of reincarnation or time travel, right? So, you can always predict that after the first few episodes, the censors will be more lenient and allow the real story, the way it was supposed to be written would come out... which actually makes her character even worse.
Based on the original script before she got here, from her perspective, she is the focal point of the entire drama. Yet, isn't he the starring IDOL role with all the fame & glory while she's just a bit actress who they're giving an opportunity to because an IDOL actress wouldn't play second fiddle to his stardom? Has she lost this fact?
As I recall, not going back to watch the beginning, there should only be 2 major scenes left: 1) his rise to power; 2) her untimely death.
On one hand she's fighting tooth and nail to "change" her destiny. On the other hand she bad mouths, insults, schemes against, lies, deceives, doesn't trust him then rejects any of his good deeds as scheming himself basically because she believes HIS part of the story can never change. Then she calls him a 'hypocrite'. With the original fact that she's a bit actress playing opposite a STAR, how does she reconcile trying to cause him an untimely demise? Like, isn't this too rich?? She talks out of both sides of her mouth. Blaming him for being the never changing "villain" while believing she can fight 'destiny' and walk away from him. After 25 episodes, her double standards and pigheaded attitude just grate and get under my skin.
So at this point, and based on the OG script, which should actually center around HIM since he is the Top Bill and the ACTUAL focal point, the only point I can see her character being is to actually be the MAIN villain who is just another person who never listens, falsely accuses and manipulates against him. She is the person, now, who CONSTANTLY hurts him the most. Open up old wound after old wound only to pour salt in it. She never endingly tells him how much she hates him and wants to kill him and for him to be dead.
Then WHY in the world would she think, when he rises to power, quells all his past naysayers, that he would love, respect and keep her, the biggest naysayer of them all?? Wouldn't it be HIS ARC to win over them all, INCLUDING HER, and gain his true love and happiness?? Why would that include her??? She's a bitch!! lul.
Lastly, this started out like a slapstick comedy. All the standard palace antics of scheming and murder were put under the arc of comedy. For the last 5-6 episodes, it has been far from funny. It all of a sudden moved from the main premise of the OG drama to an actual standard serious palace drama. Honestly, I already predicted this would happen because isn't the drama in a drama, dream in a dream a script ploy in itself? It's just a way to get around CCP censorship of reincarnation or time travel, right? So, you can always predict that after the first few episodes, the censors will be more lenient and allow the real story, the way it was supposed to be written would come out... which actually makes her character even worse.
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Are you fking kidding me? They want to go after his mom. Leave my baby alone. Leave his mother alone. Who tf are you Chu Guihong going after a Noble Consort infront of the Emperor? You're the villain. You're letting personal issues affect your work. fu fu fu.On another note; let's go back to being funny. I can't take this anymore. After ep 21 I've been skipping a lot of scenes. bro I want to laugh, that's why I started watching thisㅠㅠㅠㅠ
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It was so heart-warming to watch all the Song family members having a meal together~ ^^ I'm so happy to see a happy family like this in historical dramas, and more so because, YiMeng is living with a stepmother and half-sister. Most C-drama family dynamics are too exhausting to watch cuz the women in the harem are fighting each other :').
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Confessing all those things in the court in front of the biased Emperor Nan Heng made the biggest mistake — that's not called repentance for mistakes, this is called, in the spur of the moment, making the greatest mistake of his life — and that too for a girl.I still can’t see how he was considered smart after all this.maybe it will workout in future but till the story now
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Look at that. Now the truth is coming out and Song Yimen is finally understanding who is brave, who is coward, who is mad and everything else.Now I will say I would rather be with a Nightwalker than the princes or generals in a Empire like that.
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