Since witnessing the absurd and indifferent ending of that absurd dream, Wen Yu had not dreamt it again. He felt it was because his subconscious wanted him to see everything he needed to see. Initially, he resisted revisiting that dream, so he didn’t schedule another appointment with the doctor. Later, when he noticed the dreams had stopped, he thought his peculiar ailment had miraculously healed, and he happily concluded the treatment.
However, Wen Yu didn’t anticipate repeating that dream on this particular night.
In the middle of the night, covered in cold sweat, when he opened his eyes, his immediate reaction was to reach towards his side and touch Ji Anning’s slender arm. He promptly turned and hugged her tightly.
In the air-conditioned room, Ji Anning’s skin felt slightly cool, but after a moment of contact, it became warm to the touch.
She was alive.
Ji Anning was awakened by him.
“What’s wrong?” she asked groggily.
“Had a dream, woke up scared,” Wen Yu replied, burying his face in the crook of her neck.
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So, the doctor saw this young and wealthy patient or, more accurately, client once again.
“Another dream?” the doctor asked.
“I always feel like something is missing, and I want to take another look,” Wen Yu said.
The doctor pushed his glasses up and asked, “Are you willing to tell me the follow-up of this dream now?”
Wen Yu looked away, “No.”
According to the doctor’s theory, this dream was constructed by Wen Yu himself. Wen Yu couldn’t understand why he had arranged such a scenario for Ji Anning.
Throughout the dream, there was nothing but malice towards Ji Anning.
Wen Yu didn’t want to tell the doctor about the content of the dream, and then have the doctor tell himā¦ all of it was his malice towards Ji Anning.
Wen Yu refused to accept this.
The doctor didn’t insist, only letting him lie on Freud’s couch, allowing Wen Yu to enter the dream again.
Ji Anning ran barefoot up the stairs, and the men also passed through Wen Yu’s body and chased after her. This time, Wen Yu wasn’t in a hurry to catch up.
He stood at the corner of the stairs, carefully observing in all directions.
The last time he was guided into the dream, his attention was drawn by the people in the dream, and he didn’t pay close attention to the environment.
The wall had a sign that said “28F,” and the stairs’ tiles were beige. The top step had a corner chipped off.
Wen Yu ascended to the rooftop. This time, he didn’t care about those men or Zhao Chen, nor did he look at Ji Anning again. He walked straight to the edge of the building and looked into the distance.
Soon, Wen Yu confirmed that the environment in this dream was the provincial capital where they were located.
He saw familiar landmark buildings.
The environmental structure was so vivid that he walked about half a circle along the edge of the building, roughly figuring out his orientation in the city.
Suddenly, he saw a more familiar building.
Wen Yu squinted his eyes and looked in that directionā¦
In the end, Wen Yu didn’t tell the doctor what happened in the dream.
However, when he woke up this time, it was different from the last time. He was passively awakened. The Wen Yu who opened his eyes sat up, but didn’t speak. He furrowed his brows, as if contemplating something.
Then he left.
The doctor had a premonition that this young man might not come back.
His expression told the doctor that he must have found the information he was looking for in the dream.
Feeling a bit regretful about not knowing the dream’s conclusion, the doctor bid farewell to Wen Yu and earnestly took notes.
When Wen Yu left the doctor’s office, it was already dark.
He called Ji Anning: “Darling, I’ll be home later.”
He spoke with a smile, his voice gentle and indulgent. After ending the call, the smile disappeared.
Wen Yu felt like he might be going crazy.
He was about to do something foolish.
Wen Yu drove to the hotel where he and Ji Anning had once spent a beautiful spring night together. Before the car approached, he looked at the hotel building from a distance, estimated the direction, and found that the suite he had booked last time was just right.
He went up to the suite and stood in front of the large bathtub, gazing into the distance.
He saw the billboards, neon lights, and rooftops that he had seen in his dream. This must be because he had seen these scenes at some point, etched them into his mind, and then used them in the dream. Wen Yu convinced himself that it must be the case.
He lifted his gaze, carefully examining the recognizable places. Through them, he pinpointed a specific building.
After looking for a long time, memorizing the location of that building, Wen Yu left the hotel.
Relying on memory and a sense of direction, Wen Yu drove towards that building. He didn’t take much time; soon, he found it.
It was another hotel, offering accommodation, a restaurant, and hosting weddings, various business meetings, and events.
Wen Yu was very certain that he had never been to this hotel before.
So, the situation was quite absurd. He found himself wanting to visit this hotel just because of a dream, to see if it matched what he had dreamt.
Wen Yu felt like a lunatic. He should have turned around and left, not engaged in such a ridiculous and absurd endeavor.
But for some reason, standing in the hotel parking lot, looking up, he felt a palpitation in his heart.
As he entered, he walked through the revolving door with a welcoming smile, but seconds later, he turned back out.
“Is there anything I can help you with?” the greeter asked.
Wen Yu handed a banknote to the greeter and said, “I want to inquire about something.”
The greeter swiftly took the banknote, the smile becoming even more genuine. “Sure, what do you want to know?”
Wen Yu asked, “Has anyone fallen to their death here?”
The greeter didn’t immediately understand the term “fallen to their death.” Wen Yu clarified, “Jumped off a building, suicide, that kind of thing.”
“Oh, you mean ‘fallen to their death.'” The greeter thought for a moment and said, “I’ve been working here for three years, and I’ve never heard of such a thing.”
Wen Yu inexplicably sighed in relief.
He took the elevator to the twenty-eighth floor, exited the elevator, and quickly found the stairwell.
When Wen Yu gripped the door handle, his palms sweated, and his heart raced.
“It’s just a dream, just a dream,” he told himself.
But for some reason, Wen Yu felt that pushing open this door would reveal a terrifying abyss or a grotesque monster.
From childhood to adulthood, Wen Yu had always been a fearless person. However, in this moment, he unexpectedly felt fear.
Yet, like a lunatic, he came here just to see this place with his own eyes, to confirm that this place was entirely different from his dreams, to prove that those dreamscapes were absurd and unreal.
Gritting his teeth, Wen Yu pushed open the door.
Behind the door, there was neither an abyss nor a monster. But at a glance, Wen Yu’s mind buzzed.
On the wall was the sign “28F,” and the staircase tiles were beige.
Wen Yu felt his legs go weak, taking a few shaky steps before standing at the stairwell corner, looking upward. The highest step, with its conspicuously chipped corner, was like a piercing sight.
Dizziness overwhelmed Wen Yu. His legs went soft, and he almost stumbled, steadying himself against the wall.
This couldn’t be! It couldn’t be!
He was a hundred percent certain he had never been here!
Wen Yu bent down, gasping for air, leaning on his knees. After a while, he felt some relief in his chest.
He looked up. Having come this far, no matter the shock, there was no way to turn back now.
Wen Yu gritted his teeth and stepped onto the steps.
This building had only thirty floors, and the rooftop had only one entrance. The view from above was exactly the same as what Wen Yu dreamt about.
Wen Yu stopped not far from the entrance, lying quietly a few centimeters away from the entrance, a half brick.
Wen Yu’s forehead was covered in tiny beads of sweat.
He took two deep breaths and continued walking forward. When he reached a spot near the refrigeration unit, he turned around.
His heart pounded, as if behind the shadow of the refrigeration unit, there lurked a terrifying demon with a long red tongue.
Or perhaps, behind it hid a disheveled, frightened, and panicked Ji Anning.
But there was no one behind the refrigeration unit, only a piece of steel bar lying on the ground at an angle.
Wen Yu had picked up this steel bar many times from a first-person perspective. This time, he bent down, using his own hand to pick it up in the real world, examining it closely in the light of the nighttime building landscape lamps.
One end had a neat cut, the other end was pointed, and slightly bent, like the beak of a hawk.
Same as in the dream.
Everything, absolutely everything, was just like in the dream!
Wen Yu felt like he couldn’t breathe.
Ji Anning noticed that Wen Yu had been acting a bit strangely these past two days.
Final exams were just around the corner, but he wasn’t studying with her in the small study room. He spent all his time in the large study room, and she had no idea what he was up to.
In the large study room, she couldn’t help but ask, “Is something going on at work?”
“No,” Wen Yu said. “Why?”
Ji Anning reminded him, “You’ve been busy all the time and haven’t been studying much.” He had taken so much time off before. In fact, he had only attended half of the classes this semester.
“Oh, that,” Wen Yu suddenly realized and said, “It’s nothing, don’t worry. I won’t fail for sure.”
He said it was nothing, but Ji Anning felt certain that something was indeed going on.
After spending a long time together, an intimate connection developed naturally. A glance conveyed understanding, a gesture revealed thoughts.
“What have you been up to these days?” Ji Anning asked.
Wen Yu said, “I’ve been exploring some sci-fi stuff.”
“ā¦Huh?” Ji Anning was puzzled.
“Just found it quite interesting,” Wen Yu’s eyes deepened. “Do you know about parallel universes?”
“I know. There were a few sci-fi novels at home when I was a kid, and I flipped through them,” Ji Anning nodded.
“Don’t you find it fascinating?” Wen Yu said, “There are countless parallel universes. The moment you take the first step with your left foot, another universe is created where you took the first step with your right foot.”
He continued, “In this world, there’s one version of you and one of me. In other worlds, there’s another version of you and another of me. It’s just that in this world, we’re together, while in other worlds, who knows what we are. It’s also possible that in one world, one of us is a murderer, and the other gets killed by a bad person. Do you think that’s possible?”
Wen Yu stared into Ji Anning’s eyes.
As he spoke, he could clearly see a change in Ji Anning’s gaze under the light.
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