That year, Mengji Corporation was at the height of its success.
That year, someone was in the prime of their youth.
The flames on her eighteenth birthday flickered softly. Her family gathered around her, all happy together.
Gu Qingyi thought and thought.
Surely the days ahead would always be like this.
Even the moon was getting sleepy.
In the quiet hours before dawn, everyone slept.
A blurred silhouette disappeared into the night, leaving only a few silent words of farewell.
“Thank you for raising me. I have failed as your son.”
“When the gardenias bloom again, I'll come back.”
The gardenias bloom year after year; each night, longing is buried beneath them.
Birds call to each other in pairs on the branches, while the vast house stands utterly alone.
The voice of the soul seems to grow emptier by the day.
“Qi Nuo, you liar.”
“You promised you'd come back to eat the gardenia pastries I made with my own hands.”
The pastries, fragrant as snow, the pastries, falling into blood.
“You beast! Shameless! Despicable!”
“You promised me you wouldn't disturb that family!!!”
The surveillance footage trembled as it captured the roaring, the pounding, the loss of control.
Darkness swallowed the control room. On the armrest of a chair, fingertips tapped at an unhurried pace.
The door was damaged. An ear-piercing alarm rang, red lights flashed, and blood-colored light spread across the man's face, bringing out a hint of mockery.
The gunfire was silent, but desire was deafening.
With her bug-like constitution, Qi Nuo broke into the dream world, resisted assimilation, and freed the souls held captive.
Free the souls? Whose souls?
Worldly desires melted the barriers of idealism.
They raced along the road home, hoping to find a perfect ending.
They glimpsed the consciousness hidden in the corners and exposed the secrets concealed behind a show of strength.
Feelings spread like a surging tide; the grains of sand felt the swell of what had been held back.
“We'll go home together.”
“Mm. Back to our home.”
Bzzzz...
[This time]
[Will you reach Ending One, Ending Two, or Ending...?]
The dark currents of the water surged, greedily enveloping the last light in the dream.
Qi Nuo x Gu Qingyi
Cool younger woman x romantic older woman
Theme: If you escape the world of dreams, can you really reach what people call reality?
