I Killed Myself in a Dream, also known as Dream Prison: About the Novel
When a dream becomes a prison, love is the gentlest of shackles
One car accident, two souls, ten years trapped in a dream.
Gu Qiqi wakes from a strange wedding ceremony and discovers she's trapped in a purple villa where the sun never shines. Bruises from last night's struggle mark her wrists. Outside the door is an unfamiliar boy who calls her “Mom,” and the man who claims to be her husband, Bo Linchen, has madness and obsession hidden in his eyes.
She soon realizes that nothing here is right:
- The sky outside never brightens, and the digital clock is frozen on the same day.
- The villa's servants have vacant eyes and warn her, “Don't upset the master.”
- The child has the same strange sigil carved into his back as Bo Linchen.
- And sometimes, she can hear her best friend in the real world calling out to her: “Qiqi, wake up!”
She has to escape.
But every time she resists, Bo Linchen grows more unhinged. He grips her waist and demands, “Do you remember what you promised me?” Yet all she can find in her shattered memories is a hazy promise from a dream ten years ago.
Until she discovers a wall covered in photographs in the basement, spanning a full ten years.
Until Bo Weili says innocently, “Dad comes here to cry every day.”
Until she slashes her wrist, only for the blood to flow back into her veins, while Bo Linchen sobs outside the door and begs, “Even death won't let you leave me…”
It turns out this isn't a dream, but a prison woven from his obsession.
