Song Yimeng takes her scripted tumble into the lake, and Nan Heng dives in to save her, kicking off a forced, dramatic first kiss neither of them chooses on their own, courtesy of the script’s control over them.

Song Yimeng wakes up six months before the wedding and dives headfirst into noble life, while the drama’s real centrepiece plays out through her maids’ retelling:

A struggling actress gets pulled into the world of the period drama script she’s filming, waking up as the tragic heroine right on her wedding day.