The moment you realize this is a dream, the nightmare begins
The tenth time he jolts awake from “reality,” Yu Zhenbei can still feel the burning sting of his roommate's slap on his cheek. Outside the window hangs the smell of cheap soy milk, and a good-morning text from his girlfriend Lin Wei pops up on his phone. Everything is so perfect it makes him feel suffocated. Then he notices a ripple writhing at the edge of the screen.
This is the eleventh loop.
With every “awakening,” the dream grows more real than before:
The faint sting of a toothbrush rubbing against his gums.
The damp moss in the cracks between the bricks of the classroom building.
Even the pen his class monitor hands him, melting into maggots.
The only clue to escaping the loop is hidden in the ninth layer of the dream:
Two shadows making forbidden gestures in front of an unnamed mountain.
Those who imitate them vanish into the mountainside, only to appear inside a cabinet as screams ring out.
And the icy kiss the woman presses to his earlobe: “You will always belong to me.”
When Yu Zhenbei finally learns to tear reality apart with hand gestures, true terror has only just arrived. Behind Lin Wei's neck, a gray mark appears, identical to the one on the woman in the cabinet.
Is it a dream? Is it reality? If the only way to save her is to willingly fall into the twelfth nightmare... Would you dare to wake up?
