Chapter Seven: The So-Called Dream Realm

  The streets are crowded with people, the city's pace of life has always been extremely fast, so fast that you don't have time to think about what you want to do next. Everyone is rushing out of their homes after planning out their daily schedule, so they don't have to waste time thinking about unnecessary things.

  "Inception" has been released for several months, and the box office is still pretty good. Many people went to see it just to show off their European and American style, while many others did so because they couldn't understand it and wanted to buy a ticket to sit in the back and figure out what hidden conspiracy was behind those layered dreams.

  Different people have different dreams, they like to indulge in the feeling of being in a dream world and ignore the beauty of reality. Just like the heroine who thought she was in a dream world but actually died in what she thought was a dream world. This is indeed a good way to die, as no one pushed her, her death was her own decision. Clean, thorough, and without leaving any traces.

  Zhen's aunt likes this way of death.

  Yu Chen died like this.

  In law, this death is called suicide.

  She sat on the sofa in the living room of Yu's mansion and said to her daughter Zhen Tianqi, "Look, this way is very simple and easy. They think they are dead, but they really are dead; they think you are dead, but you are still alive."

  A news report was replayed on TV: "The son of W City's real estate tycoon, who had been in a coma for several months after inheriting the family business, disappeared the day after waking up and his body was found on the riverbank, with forensic confirmation that it was a suicide. This is already the nth case of suicide in the Yu family... According to the will left behind before his disappearance, the Yu family's property will be inherited by his wife Ge, triggering a storm over the inheritance of the Yu family's property..."

  "Everything is just in time. Mom." Zhen Tianqi smiled, "Next step should be sister's turn."

  There are many people in the world, and there are many professions. They use different methods to make money. Among them, there is a kind of person called a dreamweaver. They are the only ones in the world who can weave dreams. The dreams they weave are layered on top of each other. Everyone thinks they have already woken up from their dreams, but in the next second, they fall into an even more intricate web of dreams woven by the dreamweavers.

  Then let's take a look at the beautiful dreams they have woven.

  The intricate and complex dream that entangled Yu Chen, trapping him in a quagmire.

  The first dream was an obvious dream, one that everyone knew was a dream but couldn't wake up from. In this dream, Yu Chen walked into several scenes, saw Qiao Mu holding a rib bone, approached Ou Zhiyu who had lost both hands, faced Lin Lin who had pierced his chest with a maple branch, and admired the sunset created by Meng Xi. He thought these were different dreams, but in fact they were all connected as one dream, and what he thought was reality was actually the second dream embedded within the first. In this second dream, the illusion of reality wrapped around the fantasy and conspiracy of the dream, giving the poor protagonist a fear that the ordinary fantasy couldn't provide. It was this endless pursuit of reality's fear that pushed Yu Chen into the next dream.

  "We are the dream weavers, and what we do is weave countless layers of dreams, nested within each other, intersecting with each other, while those who are in it can only follow our guidance to walk towards the ending we want."

  Then came the third dream. That was what Yu Chen thought was the final reality, but in fact it was just another dream. The difference was that this dream was woven to be more realistic, even taking into account balance and friction, quality and speed, time and displacement were all calculated to be just right. Everything seemed as if it truly existed before the main characters, the wheel of fate? Ha! What a ridiculous notion. Nothing is predetermined, only the weaving of those with intention.

  Next is the fourth dream, this dream will swap Yu Chen's memories of nearly ten years together. Turning nothingness and imagination into reality, a cage of memories was built in Yu Chen's mind. Inside the cage were his real, dull life memories. Outside the cage was his illusory dream as a criminal. In reality, Yu Chen is a boy from a wealthy family with an introverted personality. He is even kind and generous, with excellent grades, but in the dreams he weaves for himself, he is a ruthless and unforgivable young master. Because it's just a dream, he won't remember the reality outside of his dreams. Until he has become accustomed to life in his dreams, even when he returns to reality, he will instinctively live according to the ways of his dreams. And so-called Qiao Mu, so-called Ou Zhi Yu are nothing but illusory characters carefully constructed and woven into the dream by the Dreamweaver. In the dream, they have flesh and blood, becoming Yu Chen's cross and powerful witnesses to his crimes. But outside the dream, they are just a string of programs, a string of code, nothing more.

  Dreamwalkers are a mystical profession that can freely enter and exit people's dreams. Each person's dream is a life, when people rest in their dream lives, the dreamwalkers who enter their dreams can implant the next dream for them until the dream ends.

  The dream wove a decade of years, but after being implanted in Yu Chen's brain, it only lasted for a few short months. He lived a painful life in the dream for over a decade, suffering greatly, and even after leaving the dream, he still retained the memories from within the dream.

  "It's better this way," said Zhen Tianqi. She stood up and walked quietly to the storage room door.

  The storage room was dimly lit and damp, with a musty smell. The girl covered her mouth and nose, squinting as she looked inside to see a vaguely human shape lying half-reclined in the gloomy space.

  "Mom." The girl smiled happily, "What about sister?"

  Zhen's aunt also smiled happily, "She has rested enough, let's get started then."

  And then another unfolding of a dream is inevitable, an inescapable inevitability.

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