The Boy's Fantasy

“I like you. If you end up needing me later and kill me, then I’ll curse you then.”

Jeong Hyeonjin, a graduate student visiting China for an academic conference, tours the ruins of Emperor Hongwije, notorious for his cruel nature that overshadowed even his great achievements. There, Hyeonjin suffers an accident when a huge boulder at the site crushes him, and he loses consciousness.

The next moment, he wakes up in a splendid, old-fashioned mansion. He learns that he has time-slipped into the kingdom of Huaje, ruled by Emperor Hongwije, and has awakened in the body of Yeoyu Liang, the youngest son of a powerful politician and a boy famed for his face-card-level beauty.

But just after he comes to terms with waking up as a peerless pretty boy, the history student Hyeonjin realizes that Yeoyu Liang’s family is soon destined to be exterminated by the emperor, down to the ninth generation.

As Yeoyu Liang (Hyeonjin) tries to find a way to survive and avoid the fate of his family’s destruction, he keeps getting entangled with Emperor Hongwije, and the one who knows the terrifying future tries hard to stay away from him. Yet Hongwije, increasingly intrigued by Yeoyu Liang’s deliberate avoidance, begins to approach him more and more actively...

What choice will Yeoyu Liang make, caught between the unchangeable weight of history, his desperate desire to save his family, and the feelings he develops for the emperor who will be recorded as a tyrant?

Palace drama · Eastern style · historical setting · class difference · dominant gong · gentle gong · beautiful gong · wounded gong · emperor gong · sharp tong · capable shou · gentle shou · beautiful shou · tough outside, soft inside shou · royalty/nobility · interdimensional travel/soul swap · event-driven story · serious tone · comedy/gag