[Story blurb]
The light of reality seemed unable to pierce the fog within Mu Junqing. A jewelry designer, she was slowly running out of inspiration. The dazzling designs that once flowed from her fingertips had dwindled to cold metal and silent gemstones.
Amateur photography became her only respite. Looking at the world through a camera lens felt safe, yet distant. But one day, exhausted, she pressed the shutter and touched the "folds" of the world, beginning to tumble into a surreal dreamscape.
Here, fragments of memory lay scattered like pearls, fears of the future warped into distorted images, and the troubles of reality became an insurmountable maze. More terrifying still, she wasn't merely "dreaming." Within the layers and folds of her dreams, she "woke" again and again, forced to face the sharp traumas from her past that she had struggled to escape while awake.
In the same city, another note in fate's symphony began to sound. Song Yuci, a music producer renowned for his talent and keen instincts, lived in a world of carefully arranged rhythms and harmonies, yet lacked the courage to face his own pain.
An old wound that would not heal was like a discordant note, constantly making jarring noise in the carefully composed score of his life.
He numbed himself with work and protected his fragile heart with distance, until he met Mu Junqing, struggling at the border between reality and dreams. The similar confusion in her eyes and the pain hidden deep within her were like a light he couldn't ignore, and like a mirror reflecting himself.
Two people who shone in their respective fields but were both deeply scarred within met in a crack between realities. She needed the genuine resonance in his music to fight the erosion of her nightmares. He needed the resilience she showed as she struggled to survive her dreams to kindle his courage to face reality.
They embarked on an adventure, supporting one another. Drawing on her photographer's eye, Mu Junqing tried to "map" a path through the folds of her dreams and find the source of her trauma. Song Yuci used a music producer's precise command of sound and emotion to try to compose a melody that could pierce the dreamscape and soothe the soul.
Every time Mu Junqing "woke" in the abyss of a dream, Song Yuci was the rope that pulled her back to reality. Every time Song Yuci was swallowed by the shadows of his past, Mu Junqing used the broken yet real glimmers of light she had captured in her dreams to illuminate his way back.
Was their meeting the start of their descent, or the chance to truly awaken?
Theme: A dream has a thousand folds. She opened her eyes in its softest place.
