On A Dream within a Dream • Aug 16, 2025
Title A Dream within a Dream
A lot of people wonder why Nan Heng loves Song Yimeng and upon rewatching I thought the answer was quite obvious. He enjoys her simple mindedness & naïveté just as all the people who are close to him seem to be all slightly foolish & clumsy but loyal & kind like Fugui, Shangguan he, Nan Rui, Ah long, Ah hu. He likes people who are easy to read & simple bc he grew up in a scheming palace that forced him to be calculating & intelligent in order to survive. Remember when he was inspecting her things he initially thought it was a weapon when it turned out to be a head scratcher. She’s not very smart (not very good at math, science or English) but he loves her anyway. It’s also why he never fell for Song Yiting, she can write 80 poems & he can read 80 military manuals in a day, both are geniuses in their own right but they are too similar to each other to ignite a spark & opposites attract so that wouldn’t work. Song Yimeng is also the first person in his life that apologized for wronging him,defended him in front of the emperor, gave him multiple ‘first’ kisses, and a general quirkiness bc she’s not from this world that Nan Heng couldn’t help but fall for her.
