When dreams became humanity's second working hours,
“Waking up” was no longer the only right choice.
Dream Controller Lin Zhou was originally responsible only for waking people from their dreams.
Until he discovered that
some people were entering the same dream, fully conscious, willingly, and again and again.
It was quiet and stable there, with no one rushing you.
You could finish the things left undone in reality, over and over.
The Eternal Dream Bureau classified it as a **“Continuity Dream Zone,”**
while dream wraiths, for the first time, caused no fear.
They simply maintained order, adjusted the experience, and responded to human hesitation.
When dreams began to understand humanity,
when the pace of reality quietly slowed,
when someone “came back with a part of themselves missing,”
Lin Zhou finally realized:
This was no anomaly, no loss of control,
but a civilization-wide test of choice.
If one day,
a dream understands you better than reality does,
will you still insist on staying awake?
