Lin Zhi suddenly realizes that something around him is wrong.
Footsteps suddenly echo through the hallway late at night. The elevator keeps showing an error at floor -18. The neighbors almost never stop chopping filling in their kitchen. And beneath his bed, there are always sounds of mice gnawing at something, gnaw... gnaw...
He thinks he's just been too anxious lately.
Until one day, in the bathroom, he sees another person appear in the mirror.
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Lin Zhi has a condition: he is always dreaming.
In his dreams, a monster chases people through the hallway at night, ghosts hold a lively meeting on floor -18, strange meat boils in a giant pot, and his octopus neighbor uses six cleavers to carefully slice dark-red limbs into strips. The mouse stealing food under his bed turns into a long-haired person with no discernible face, gnawing away at something...
Children circle him, cheering and dancing, pulling him into one game after another...
Hide-and-seek, house, spot the difference...
The children hiding turn into paper dolls... The carefully prepared lunch makes Mom give birth to Dad's head... People who aren't symmetrical slowly become symmetrical...
Lin Zhi always thought it was a never-ending nightmare, until the never-ending dream became reality.
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