Summary
Heir Xiao of the Duke’s Mansion had a dream. In the dream, he could not make out the young woman’s face, but there was a flower embroidered on her dress. He said she was the woman destined to be his future wife. Everyone in the capital began guessing who she might be. On the day of the Hundred Flowers Banquet, the noble ladies’ dresses bloomed with embroidery more dazzling than the next. I, however, hid at the back of the crowd. On my dress were two leaves I had embroidered at random. In my previous life, the dress I wore had been carefully prepared with irises. He said I was the wife from his dream, and that we would live in perfect harmony. He and I became the loving couple everyone in the capital sighed over in envy. But no one knew it was a lie he had used to deceive the world for an entire lifetime.