1 Chapter 1

Zeng Yun looked at the ticking clock beside the bed. In the dim light, he could vaguely see that the clock hands had pointed to one o'clock.

The commentary of a Nordic movie was ringing in his ears, but such a healing movie could not soothe his emotions at this moment. He had no interest in the movie at all. Seeing that the progress bar was only halfway through, Zeng Yun hung up the phone in annoyance.

On the one hand he was annoyed by his procrastination, but on the other hand he really didn't want to go to sleep.

If I fall asleep, I will have to face the endless loneliness and the pain of being abandoned by the whole world will come again.

Strangely enough, ever since he came to W University, his dreams every night have been of an endless desert.

In that desert, he would never reach the end, as if it was boundless and had no boundaries.

Zeng Yun leaned sideways, gently shaking his hands and tapping on the bed board. This was his little habit when he was anxious. He always had to do something with his hands to feel at ease.

He wasn't worried about disturbing others; his mate in the lower bunk was a local, and tomorrow was the weekend, so he'd already gone home. Furthermore, the sound of his knocking was so subtle that it was completely drowned out by the snoring of the person across from him.

But at this moment, Ji Qiang, who had gotten out of bed opposite him, happened to stand up, and when he raised his eyes, he bumped into Zeng Yun.

Zeng Yun was caught red-handed playing such a little "prank", and he felt embarrassed for a moment. The two looked at each other, and finally Ji Qiang spoke first.

Ji Qiang remembered that Zeng Yun had gone to bed at ten o'clock that evening. Remembering that Zeng Yun had previously seen a psychiatrist, he walked over to Zeng Yun's bedside and quietly asked, "Still having trouble sleeping?"

Ji Qiang is a student in the Department of Physical Education and also the dormitory head of 301 dormitory. He is well-known for his warm-heartedness on the third floor. Anyone who has a problem can go to Ji Qiang, and he always has a way to solve it for them.

Zeng Yun saw that the other party was worried, and knew that he couldn't hide it from the other party, so he could only answer: "I will sleep soon."

Ji Qiang nodded, but still worried, and reminded him: "If you really can't sleep, take the medicine the doctor prescribed last time. Tomorrow is the weekend, how about I take you to the school clinic? Or go to the city hospital?"

Ji Qiang had accompanied Zeng Yun when she went to see a psychologist before. He naturally understood Zeng Yun's situation. Seeing that Zeng Yun had not shown any improvement in recent days, he couldn't help but feel a little worried.

But Zeng Yun knew that it was not that he couldn't sleep, but that he didn't want to face such torture, so he deliberately avoided sleep.

As for the psychiatrist, Zeng Yun had long given up hope. He used to go every week, and he'd been prescribed a bunch of medication, but apart from feeling unwell, he'd never received any feedback.

But Zeng Yun didn't want to let down his roommate's kindness. Zeng Yun shook his head and said to Ji Qiang, "It's okay. I'll play with my phone for a while and then go to sleep."

Ji Qiang nodded. When he returned to the dormitory after going to the bathroom, he found that Zeng Yun seemed to have fallen asleep.

Today's dream seemed different. It was clearly the same desert, but Zeng Yun felt a familiar feeling coming from it for no reason.

Zeng Yun followed his feeling and walked forward, just like the first time he was looking for the edge in this dream. He didn't know how far he had walked or how long he had walked, but finally he found that unusual place.

Zeng Yun looked at the scene in front of him in disbelief.

Is that... a person?

He was afraid that this was another mirage, so he quickened his pace and ran forward, but the figure was getting closer and closer, as if telling him that there was really more than just him in this dream.

When Zeng Yun walked up to the person, he found that it was a beautiful girl, who seemed to be about the same age as him, with seaweed-like black hair hanging down her shoulders.

She squatted on the ground, as if looking for something, her white skirt dragging on the ground, but she seemed unaware of it.

At this time, the girl seemed to sense that there was someone around her. She raised her head, looked at Zeng Yun, and then smiled faintly.

Her eyes were beautiful, like a clear spring in the desert, dispelling all of Zeng Yun's anxiety.

"you……"

Zeng Yun opened his mouth and found that his voice was extremely hoarse, as if it had been rubbed by gravel. He always felt that the girl looked familiar, but he didn't know where he had seen her.

The girl stood up and casually wiped her white skirt with her hands a few times, as if she didn't care at all about the stain on her skirt. Then she stretched out her hand and said, "Hello! My name is Gu Yue, and Yue means Gu Yue in my hometown!"

Zeng Yun once heard the elders in his family say that if someone calls you in a dream, don't answer them, because they might be a wild ghost that wants to possess you.

But perhaps because he had been alone in his dream for too long, or perhaps because he was infected by the girl's smile, Zeng Yun unconsciously reached out his hand to shake hers.

It was strange. It was clearly a dream, but why did he still feel something? Why did he feel so much like crying the moment he came into contact with someone?

Gu Yue noticed that Zeng Yun's mood seemed a little off, so she quickly leaned over and asked, "Hey, why do you look so sad?"

Zeng Yun just shook her head, but for some reason, she couldn't help but shed tears.

"Hey, don't cry!"

Gu Yue frantically looked for something to wipe his tears, but couldn't find anything useful for a while, and was so anxious that she kept turning around in circles.

Finally, Zeng Yun finished expressing his inner emotions. He felt a little embarrassed. After all, it was too rude to cry for no reason in front of someone when they first met.

"Thank God, you've finally stopped crying." Gu Yue clasped his hands together in front of his chest, then asked curiously, "What happened to you?"

Zeng Yun couldn't answer, so he changed the subject, looked around and asked, "Do you know where this is?"

Gu Yue was silent for a moment and did not answer immediately. Zeng Yun's eyes lit up when he saw this, but the next second he saw Gu Yue shaking her head.

Seeing this, Zeng Yun couldn't help feeling disappointed.

But come to think of it, since Gu Yue is the person in my dream, I guess I have been driven crazy by dreams during this period of time and this is just a character I imagined.

How can the person in the dream know why they don’t even know why the dream exists?

Wait? Zeng Yun suddenly felt terrified when he thought of this.

Could it be that I have been trapped for too long and have started to have hallucinations, and now I have a split personality?

Gu Yue in front of him obviously had no idea what Zeng Yun was thinking and was looking around with great interest.

"Do you know where this is?"

Zeng Yun shook his head. He felt a little scared when he thought that Gu Yue might be his split personality.

But for some reason, looking into Gu Yue's eyes, he felt a desire to confide in her again, so after a moment, Zeng Yun said to Gu Yue again:

"This place... seems to be my dream. I have been trapped here for a long time."

"Dream?"

This sentence piqued Gu Yue's interest, and she quickly asked, "Why did you have such a dream?"

"I don't know. I've seen many doctors before, and they said it might be a problem of stress and anxiety. I went to many hospitals and got a lot of medication, but there was no improvement."

Gu Yue nodded, her eyes filled with worry. She sat down next to Zeng Yun and asked, "When did you start having this dream?"

Zeng Yun looked up at the sky. There was nothing in the sky here, no sun or clouds.

But people always subconsciously raise their heads when they are thinking.

"The first time I had this dream was about three months ago."

Gu Yue nodded and said, "As the saying goes, you dream at night about what you think about during the day. Perhaps you've been through something, so you have this kind of dream."

When Zeng Yun heard this, he felt a headache and started talking.

"Let's stop talking about this. I hadn't started school yet, and I had this dream for three days straight. My mom ended up finding a dream interpreter for me, spending a hundred or so yuan, and they said I was too anxious because I was about to be happy. Then a few days later, I was still having the dream, so my mom found a Taoist temple from somewhere, burned incense, and drew lots, spending another three or five hundred yuan. Finally, she brought me a piece of talisman paper to boil and boil for me to drink. Now I don't dare tell them about my dreams again, or they'll take me to exorcise the evil spirits."

Zeng Yun felt a little nauseous at the thought of the taste of the talisman water. Although he knew it was probably a psychological effect, the feeling at the time was really not good.

Gu Yue looked at him sympathetically, then said, "I've drunk that talisman water before, it's really awful!"

"You drank it too?"

Zeng Yun was shocked by these words for a moment. He didn't expect that there was someone else as unlucky as him.

But on second thought, it makes sense. Gu Yue is my own split personality, so of course he will experience the same things that I have experienced.

Gu Yue thought for a moment and then asked, "Is it possible that you were upset by something? I heard that dreams can best reflect a person's psychological state. Are you unhappy or depressed about something?"

"well……"

Zeng Yun shook his head. He hadn't had any psychological problems or experienced any trauma in his life over the past decade. His family was harmonious and everyone envied him. While his academic performance wasn't top-notch, it was still among the best.

If I really want to talk about it, the most I did was that when I came to K City with my family in the first grade, I was bullied by the neighbor kids for a few days.

Thinking of this, Zeng Yun couldn't help but smile and shook his head. Could he still be brooding over something that happened when he was six or seven years old?

Besides, later...

…

later?

What happened next?

Zeng Yun suddenly couldn't remember.

He felt like he had forgotten something very important.

"Zeng Yun? Zeng Yun, what's wrong with you?"

Gu Yue's voice brought Zeng Yun back to his senses. He looked at Gu Yue in a daze. She seemed to have said something just now, but he didn't hear it.

But, something seems wrong?

Before Zeng Yun could react, Gu Yue's voice came again.

"I was just talking to you, why didn't you answer me?"

Seeing Gu Yue frowning slightly and a hint of grievance in her voice, Zeng Yun also felt a little sorry.

"Sorry, I was just thinking about something. What did you say just now?"

Gu Yue didn't mean to blame him. She smiled like a little sun.

"I say, since we're all stuck here now, why not try to change things up?"

Change?

Zeng Yun looked around in confusion. There was nothing here except sand, not even a drop of water. How could he change it?

Before Zeng Yun could ask any questions, he felt a sudden flash of white light before his eyes.

Zeng Yun was very familiar with this scene. It appeared before he woke up every day.

Gu Yue's face gradually blurred in the white light. Zeng Yun subconsciously stretched out his hand to keep her. He was afraid that he would never see her again in the next dream.

The moment he stretched out his hand, Zeng Yun suddenly realized where the strangeness just now came from.

"wrong……"

Zeng Yun murmured to himself:

"Why...does she know my name?"