MANGOTV HORIZONTAL SHORT · MANGO-005
Illusory Dream
梦华胥
2026 · 24 episodes · ≈15 min (total 6h01) per episode · MangoTV
Dream-eating demon Meng Li seeks revenge on the reincarnation of the man who betrayed her, entering Shen Que's dreams to recover her sealed spiritual root and uncover the truth.
Reunion ending with major death/time-gap caveat · Yes — reunited after 100 years
Researched catalog entry · no personal review or rating
Official MangoTV source ↗
Drama details, ending & sources
- Aliases
- Meng Hua Xu; Phantom Love (third-party distribution title)
- Year
- 2026
- Episodes
- 24
- Minutes per episode
- ≈15 min (total 6h01)
- Genres / setting
- Costume / fantasy / romance / revenge / dream realms
- Main leads
- Li Muchen (李沐宸) / Geng Yeting (耿業庭)
- Platform / format
- MangoTV · Mainland Chinese horizontal short drama
- Ending
- Reunion ending with major death/time-gap caveat
- Together at the end
- Yes — reunited after 100 years
- Relationship
- Lovers; marriage not verified
- Breakups
- 0 formal breakups; death/time-gap separation only
- Separation
- Yes — 100-year death/time separation before reunion
- Death / revival / reset / dream
- YES — Meng Li dies saving Shen Que; they reunite 100 years later
- Finder
- Caution / likely exclude from clean HE — death + century separation
- U.S. access
- PASS — official MangoTV International English page is U.S.-accessible; title is listed in MangoTV International Top Short Dramas
- English subtitles
- PASS — official English page is labeled with English subtitles; official Mango short-play distribution is multi-sub
- Original audio
- Mandarin
- Popularity evidence
- #5 in Batch 1 — 380M official plays (3.8亿)
- Popularity checked
- 2026-10-05
Ending source is a full-episode distributor upload rather than Mango's synopsis, so confidence is medium. Reunion exists, but it is not a clean no-separation HE. Retro-audit 2026-10-06: U.S. playback + English-sub gate PASSED via official MangoTV International evidence.
