In 2025, the world is functioning as usual, but no one knows that there is another dimension lurking in the dark - emotions condense into giant beasts of the mountains and seas, gnawing at people's hearts. The psychiatrist Dr. Xiao Linchuan has the blood of an ancient dream hunter and can enter dreams and kill monsters. His family has used the "Guardian Beast" as its blade for generations to suppress the vicious beasts that take the form of despair, greed, and resentment. However, they also bear the cold ancestral teaching: Those who fall in love before the age of 48 will be annihilated by the beast and become a mortal.
Xiao Linchuan was originally the most deviant dream hunter. He tamed the mythical beast **Bai Ze** without relying on force, but only with the words "I will accompany you in pain"; when rescuing people, he did not destroy the evil beast, but used empathy to overcome his inner demons. Until the Xinghua drizzle night, he rescued the woman Jiang Xuemian who was forced to a dead end - her cheongsam was stained with blood, and the broken light in her eyes made him willing to violate the rules of heaven. In an emotional moment, Bai Ze withered, the family was furious, and he was expelled from the house with a smile, holding her hand tightly: "If this is the price, I can afford it."
But the fangs of fate are far sharper than imagined. Jiang Xuemian was plagued by epidemics because of self-blame for breeding "worms"; Xiao Linchuan went to the forbidden land of Kunlun alone to save her, and discovered the millennium lie of his family: those who are in love are not dead ends, but a chance for nirvana. In desperation, he awakened the second divine beast, the Candle Dragon, and used time and space as a framework to steal longevity, kill vicious beasts, reverse life and death, and even confront the fallen uncle with a sword. But when he finally grasped a glimmer of hope, Jiang Xuemian wore her wedding dress and died with a smile on her face: "Xiao Linchuan, I want you to never forget me for thousands of years to come."
