[Science fiction + romance + family + adventure + consciousness + elements of the I Ching] No formulaic plot, no System, no harem. If that bothers you, don’t read. This should be tagged science fiction.
After repeated disappointments in real life, the protagonist, Jia Sicong, accidentally takes a mysterious pill and stumbles into an unfamiliar dimension. There, he marries the person he has secretly loved for years in the real world, and they have an adorable daughter together. They share the sweetness and hardships of life, finding warmth and friction in the everyday. But a sudden shipwreck tears it all apart. Jia Sicong wakes from the violent impact to find himself inside a highly advanced quantum laboratory. The life he experienced was nothing more than a virtual dimension constructed by his own consciousness under the influence of the drug. What choice will he make between these two dimensions?
Technology is shaking our understanding of “reality” at an unprecedented pace. Brain-computer interfaces are bringing the “brain in a vat” into real-world laboratories. Bioprinting is like holding the key to rewriting life, turning the myth of creation into executable code. And the rapid advance of AI is swiftly blurring and dissolving the boundary between reality and the virtual.
Is the world an objective material existence, or an illusion woven from billions of consciousnesses? If everything is unreal, where is the way out to “reality”?
This is a journey of imagination born from uncertainty. Things once regarded as fantasy seem to be coming true before our eyes. Perhaps humanity’s future is slipping into a collective dream, one that is at once real and unreal.
Is anyone else tossing and turning with the same questions? Is anyone else peering out from the edge of a similar dream?
