Chapter 4: The Dream of Yuè

  （1）

  There won't be a normal person who can escape sleep. So Yu Chen is destined to be unable to escape the nightmare that has already been arranged for him. This is already his fourth dream, and he still doesn't know which one will be the end.

  Death is not always scary, what's scary is the hopeless waiting after knowing the outcome, just like a prisoner on death row, they know they will step by step towards death, but can only painfully pass through that short yet long period of time. During that time, they either repent or are terrified, and cannot pour out their emotions, can only let them torment their own internal organs until they go mad.

  Dazzling and dizzying sunset. Yu Chen had not seen such a beautiful dusk at Y University for over a year. The sun was setting in the west, with a small house of a night watchman on the playground in front of him. The wooden house happened to be between him and the sunset, forming a straight line.

  A faint sound of footsteps echoed behind him.

  He came. He muttered a sentence under his breath, and his body stiffened accordingly.

  Meng Xi's hair had turned a golden yellow, like a ray of sunshine. She walked up to Yu Chen and stood shoulder-to-shoulder with him, causing Yu Chen's cold sweat to drip onto the grass beneath his feet like an open faucet.

  "The sunset is beautiful, isn't it? Although it's about to disappear." Meng Xi's voice was filled with joy. "That's why I like sunsets, and even changed my name because of it."

  "What a dream." Yu Chen's voice was squeezed out of his throat with great effort, sounding somewhat hoarse. Meng Xi didn't speak, and the air was suddenly filled with suffocating molecules.

  The two fell silent again, and then Meng Xi suddenly burst out laughing. Her silvery laughter was pleasant to hear. "I didn't expect you to catch on so quickly. I was going to tell you about my experience of changing names." She smiled with her eyebrows curved, watching the sunset slowly set. "This is Xi's Dream."

  The tightly wound string in Yu Chen's mind suddenly broke with Meng Xi's words, he almost frantically turned around, his eyes were bloodshot, he could no longer bear this kind of suffering that was like being tortured, this suffering was torment, it was far more terrifying than death.

  "What are you going to do? What exactly are you going to do!" He fiercely shook Meng Xi, his face twisted in a scowl. It was as if his sense of hearing had disappeared from that moment on, the surrounding cacophony of voices completely vanishing, leaving him with an unprecedented feeling of silence. This silence made him unable to vent his emotions, and his heart felt like it was about to burst.

  Meng Xi's hair was shaken by him, half covering her lovely face, but she remained very calm. She raised her slender white fingers to her lips and said something that made Yu Chen completely collapse, "Shh... In the dream world, we must all be quiet. I quietly do what I want to do, and you just need to quietly appreciate. Then go accept the fairest judgment from God. Amen, let Satan be your cross."

  Yu Chen slowly released his hand, with a hint of pleading in his somewhat dull eyes. Meng Xi smoothed out his hair and looked towards the horizon: The sun had already completely set.

  "There's no sunset." Meng Xi lightly shrugged his shoulders, "Then let me create a sunset for you."

  A golden glow was reflected in his eyes, that was the burning wooden house. Meng Xi's voice was as clear and ethereal as a Buddhist chant coming from the fire into his brain, but unlike a real Buddhist chant, it was not filled with forgiveness and peace.

  Purified by fire, built with the setting sun. Satan beckons to the sinful, hell's mandrake blooms, all will end in a dream of dusk.

  （2）

  The coin was spinning non-stop on the desktop, Aunt Zhen was talking on the phone downstairs, "Okay, Xiao Mei. The young master has been in a bad mood for days, and didn't even attend the company's anniversary dinner, Master is already very angry......Yes, he doesn't even eat, and keeps muttering about having a nightmare. I think you, as a great lawyer, should have a way to deal with this, okay? Let me arrange for the young master to visit you this afternoon, do you have time? Three o'clock." She hung up the phone, picked up the coin casually and went upstairs.

  Yu Chen's room door was wide open, and Zhen Ayi walked in without hesitation. The room was a mess, with fragments of decorations scattered everywhere, as well as several photos scattered on the floor. The one closest to Zhen Ayi was a photo of Yu Chen and a half-naked girl with a terrified expression.

  Yu Chen hugged the quilt and shrank into the corner of the wall, his expression was wooden, his eyes were stiff, and his unhealthy complexion looked like a long-term drug addict. Zhen's aunt frowned.

  "Master." Her voice was flat, with a hint of routine. "I've scheduled an appointment for you with Lawyer Yu Yan at 3 pm this afternoon. The car is waiting downstairs, please don't forget." After finishing speaking, she turned and went downstairs. As she passed by the dining room, she lightly flicked her hand, and the coin on the table started spinning again.

  Two people sat silently on either side of the office desk. The hot air rising from their tea created a veil of mist between them. Yu Yin was not in a hurry, leisurely playing with the Parker pen in his hand.

  Yu Chen had regained much of his composure since arriving at the law firm. He stared fixedly at the blue and white porcelain tea cup in front of him, then hesitated for a moment before opening his mouth, "Brother..."

  "I thought you wouldn't call me 'brother' anymore." Yu Jian put down his pen, "It's been two years since we last saw each other, right? Since you went to college."

  In the business circle, when mentioning the real estate tycoon Mr. Yu's children, people would only think of Yu Chen, but no one knows the name Yu Jing. Although they have the same father, their lives are vastly different. Yu Chen grew up in a honey jar from a young age, while Yu Jing was destined to be rejected by the Yu family since birth because he is an illegitimate child, the sinful product of Mr. Yu and a nightclub mistress' one-night stand. To avoid further cold shoulders from the Yu family, Yu Jing moved out of the Yu mansion many years ago, started his own business, and became a somewhat famous lawyer in the legal world today.

  "Speak up. What do you want to talk to me about? Aunt Zhen said your emotions have been out of control lately, and you even didn't attend the company's anniversary dinner, which I'm sure you know is significant to Father. Did something happen at school? I heard there was a murder case at your school." Yu Mei asked calmly with her hands clasped under her chin.

  "Not...!" Yu Chen swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and beads of cold sweat seeped out on his forehead. His mind was fiercely struggling, and finally he suddenly raised his head, "I've done many bad things over the years, harming many people - they keep entangling me in my dreams - this is driving me crazy!"

  "What's wrong? What are you referring to? Theft and robbery? You've indeed done such things many times."

  "Not referring to those......" Yu Chen's mind flashed with the illusions in his dreams, cold sweat dripping onto the table, splashing small water flowers. He looked at Yu Jing's calm and peaceful eyes, smiled, "It was rape."

  The second hand kept turning round and round, Yu Jing lowered her eyes, her index finger tapping on the table, the rhythm was just right with Yu Chen's heart rate, "Finished?"

  "Yes." Yu Chen curled up into a ball again, his voice trembling. "Brother, I'm scared. They said the final judgment is coming soon, I don't know...I don't know! What does that mean? What does that mean!"

  "Perhaps it's death, or perhaps it's a lifetime of torment. After all..." Yu Jian's tone was very calm, "That's even more terrifying than death."

  "What should I do? I don't want to live like this anymore...I'm going crazy..." Yu Chen's nostrils flared violently, and his pupils were shrinking rapidly, representing an extreme fear.

  Yu Jie leaned back in his armchair, raising an eyebrow. "You want to get rid of your nightmare and gain redemption for your soul?" He gazed at his brother's eager eyes, his long fingers spinning a coin between them with a whirring sound.

  "I don't believe in superstitions," he said. "Their haunting is just a reaction of your own fear in your heart - I know what you want to say, I know that for these things, you must have no regrets. But even if you haven't had any regrets, the memory of those people and things still exists in your heart. So why not take advantage of the law?"

  Yu Chen shook his head, "Brother... what should I do then?"

  "Go ahead and confess. Tell me everything." He comforted Yu Chen's frightened expression with a smile, "It's just a form of leaving an impression in your mind. As for afterwards, my father and I will take care of it. You should think carefully, after all, you can never dream of ending evil with death alone."

  The coin is still spinning, like the wheel of fate, as if it will never stop.

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