[Blurb One]
In this world, people come together and part, meet and say goodbye. Wishes are always left unspoken, and resentments always arise. May purple butterflies flutter this way. When love and resentment have run their course, may the butterflies turn red and fly away.
[Blurb Two] Dong Zhidan was a chubby, nerdy teenager, spending his days eating chips, drinking cola, playing games, reading novels, and dozing off or daydreaming in class. Then came that dream. Everything began that day...
An ancient legacy, an eerie faith, ghosts filling the skies, a figure so much like me, a bride crying in a bridal sedan, the fated ties between past and present lives... "Am I still me?" "System, come out and explain this!!!!!"
[Blurb Three: About Dreams]
The famous Austrian psychologist Sigmund Freud once explained dreams in his book The Interpretation of Dreams:
"A dream is a true conversation between a person and their inner self, a process of learning about oneself, another life closely bound to one's own.
Everything seen and felt in a secret dream, every breath, tear, pain, and joy, is not without meaning."
In The Interpretation of Dreams, Freud also argued that beneath a person's conscious awareness, another, latent psychological process is at work. This is his famous theory of the unconscious.
Zhuangzi's Discussion on Making All Things Equal also includes this description of a dream: Once, Zhuang Zhou dreamed he was a butterfly, fluttering about as a butterfly, happy and doing as he pleased, unaware that he was Zhuang Zhou. Suddenly he awoke, and there he was, solidly and unmistakably Zhuang Zhou. But he did not know whether Zhuang Zhou had dreamed he was a butterfly, or a butterfly had dreamed it was Zhuang Zhou. Between Zhuang Zhou and a butterfly, there must be some distinction. This is what is called the transformation of things.
I am the author. This book is a systematic urban imagination essay. There are 12 chapters in the first chapter, which are written in the Ming Dynasty to prepare the main text. However, the first chapter is a bit awkward, and it has no impact on the later chapters if you don't read it, so you can skip it.