Chapter Nine: Dream Two

  Finally, on the side of the spiral staircase, a small arched door appeared, just like the small doors in fairy tales. Ji Su had to bend down as much as possible to crawl inside. As soon as he stood up straight, Ji Su looked back and saw that the small door was gone. He raised his head to look forward, but it was still a thick fog.

  In the next instant, the thick fog seemed to be floating on its own. Ji SuYan's eyes widened as she watched herself suddenly appear in a room after the fog dispersed. The room was decorated quite well, clean and bright. She looked around at the tall potted plants by her feet, then at the light green fabric sofa, and finally raised her head to look at the living room on the upper floor of the duplex. It was a comfortable house, but where exactly was this?

  She Qi Su's voice seemed to have never been in this kind of house before! Suddenly, the scene in front of her was like a movie screen, rapidly advancing towards her, and she let out a big scream. As she watched, that wall was about to crash into her, she was so scared that she held her breath, but the next moment, that wall directly passed through her body, she was very surprised, and looked down at her own body.

  Suddenly, a blue and white porcelain vase with a wide mouth passed through Ji Suyan's body and crashed into the wall, shattering into pieces. Ji Suyan raised her head and looked at the scene in front of her, feeling very strange, as if she was watching a silent film, seeing people's mouths moving but unable to hear their voices, it was extremely comical.

  Suddenly, Ji Su's whole body shook, and all the faint sounds suddenly surged into her eardrums like a flood. Ji Su let out an "ah!" and covered her ears, but when she put them down again, she could hear very clearly.

  In front of me was a couple quarreling, apparently husband and wife. The vase just now was thrown by the woman in extreme anger. The man wore gold-rimmed glasses, over thirty years old, looking very elegant and refined. The woman had her hair tied up, originally gentle and delicate, but at this moment her hair was disheveled, her face ferocious with rage, looking somewhat terrifying.

  "Qin Yue! Tell me the truth! When did you two start? Ah! You tell me! Was it after the alumni reunion last year that you two hooked up? Is that right? Is that right?" The woman's voice suddenly rose to a sharp pitch, making people who heard it feel a sour head and a surge of irritability in their hearts.

  The man roughly combed his hair, his face gloomy, and only spoke after stabilizing his emotions: "Alright! That's how it is. Tan Xue was my first love to begin with. I admit that I still have lingering feelings for her. To you, I'm very sorry. Let's get a divorce! This is better for both of us!"

  "No! You can't be serious! Qin Yue, don't you forget that if it weren't for my dad, would you have become a professor so quickly? Now you're going to abandon me and Linlin for that cheap woman? I absolutely refuse! Absolutely not!"

  The man's face hesitated when mentioning Linlin's name, but was eventually replaced by coldness: "Linlin, I will fight for his custody, don't worry about it. And, Xu Minqing! I've tolerated you for many years, yes! That's right! If it weren't for your dad, I, Qin Yue, wouldn't have become a professor so quickly. But all of this is the result of my hard work and struggle. Without your dad's support, my promotion was only a matter of time. Just because of this, you've been suppressing me for so many years, making me feel suffocated. Being with you, I lost my freedom. Why don't you think about it? We've come to this point today, don't you have any responsibility?"

  The man's face was twisted in a scowl, his breathing unstable. The woman collapsed to the ground, tears streaming down her face. The man turned and left without a hint of nostalgia, slamming the door shut with a loud "bang".

  Ji Su blinked her eyes, what's going on? How did she inexplicably run into someone else's house and witness the emotional breakdown of a divorce dispute scene? What is this all about? In any case, all of this is too unbelievable!

  The next moment, Ji Su-yin understood the reason why she was standing here. "Squeak!" A seven or eight-year-old boy, with a terrified face, stood right in front of where Ji Su-yin was standing.

  Standing at the door, the woman saw the little boy and immediately ran over to hug him, crying sadly. Ji Su's eyes widened as she stared straight at the little boy being hugged by the woman, who sensed her gaze and slowly looked back at her.

  In an instant, all the bright colors around faded away like flowing water, and in the dark grayness, only that small face slowly turned cyan, with eyes overflowing with ink, losing their whites, becoming black and murky.

  The boy stared at her, his hooked mouth corners gradually curving into a strange arc. Ji Su's voice was terrified, her whole body stiff and unable to move, the boy stretched out his arm straight, with five fingers open towards her, slowly opening his white lips...