Dreamroom Original · Episode 1

Seven Days

To kill the prince.

Episode 1, “The Cup” · 2 min 47 s

A truth for a memory.

A palace maid is executed for poisoning the Queen Mother, then rises from the grave with seven dawns to prove her innocence before the prince she loves marries the woman who framed her. Every truth she uncovers costs her one memory of him.

60 episodes 1–2 min each Vertical 9:16 Supernatural revenge romance

Aderonke, a sharp-tongued palace maid, is the secret lover of Prince Akin. When Tiwalade, daughter of the Ogboni Elder, forces her own betrothal to him, the Queen Mother plans to stop the wedding and is poisoned. The poison is found under Aderonke’s mat, Akin believes the lie, and he hands her the cup himself.

The earth spits her out, and a Voice gives her seven dawns to bring it the prince. The Queen Mother’s gold cup shows her the truth, but every vision costs her one memory of Akin. The Voice turns out to be Death, wanting a life for a life.

Set in a fictional pre-colonial Yoruba-inspired kingdom.

What it runs on.

The beats this story is built from, and the reason it holds across sixty episodes.

Framed innocent. executed for a murder she did not commit.
Return from the dead. the earth refuses an innocent sacrifice.
Forbidden love. a maid and the heir.
Ticking clock. seven dawns, counted on her wrist, until the wedding.
The devil's bargain. a truth for a memory, with Death as the dealer.
Memory as the price. she keeps forgetting the prince she is fighting for.
The villain bride. regal in public, cold in private.
Trial by ordeal. the edan falls if the accused lies.