A Dream Within a Dream (Season 1)

A Dream Within a Dream (书卷一梦, 2025) is a Chinese romantic drama series you can watch online on iFILM. Produced by Linmon Pictures and Tencent Penguin Pictures for iQiyi, the 40-episode show is directed by Guo Hu, with Li Yitong and Liu Yuning in the lead roles.

Song Xiaoyu wakes up inside a novel — and her assigned role is not a good one. The script has her suffering at the hands of the cold, ruthless male lead Nan Heng, right up until death. She runs. The plot pulls her back. Every time she strays from the story, it finds a new way to steer her straight toward him. Meanwhile, every other character in this paper world is equally trapped: palace schemes, family debts, hunger for power. Song Xiaoyu's fight isn't just survival — it's authorship.

All 40 episodes of A Dream Within a Dream (2025) are complete and available to stream on iFILM.