The Imperial College's

Eps. 39: The Dream World 2

Beijing, early spring 2021.

Three nurses and one doctor rushed into a VIP room on the second floor. Just a moment ago, they received a call from the room telling them that the patient in the room was conscious. To check it out, they immediately rushed over.

Inside the room numbered 505, the girl was about twenty-three years old lying with a dazed face. In his eyes there was water pooling, then dripping to the side. An oxygen hose was stuck to his nose. His hands and feet were wrapped in thick bandages so he could not move.

“Nona Yunxi, you finally wake up,” said the doctor who examined her.

The girl was still unable to say anything. Even up to five days later, he was still mute like a rock. His eyes are often empty. He just nodded and shook his head or kept quiet whenever asked. The doctors and nurses who examined her put all the effort into getting the girl back to normal.

Later, word got out that a girl who had been a survivor of the app center building fire who had been in a coma for a year and a half had regained consciousness but lost all her memories. Yunxi could not remember anything. Fill his head like an empty shell.

He often walks in the hospital park alone. The therapy applied by her doctors and nurses showed no significant results. Even when he had recovered a week from his coma, he still could not speak and still could not remember anything. He often stared at the sky from the bedroom window.

Her hair that was short had now become longer. Her nails are also growing beautifully. In a coma, the growth in his body does not stop.

The circumstances made both old men Huang Yunxi even more worried. A year and a half ago, they got a call from the hospital that their daughter was a victim of an app center fire and fell into a coma.

The burns are quite severe, but due to the sophistication of technology and cutting-edge treatment, the burns slowly heal and leave only a few scars that take time to heal on their own.

Now, after he realized, it was just like that. Their daughter lost her sanity by not remembering anything and not being able to speak. I don't know what he's been through during his coma until it becomes like that. If this is psychological trauma, it should have started to improve a few days ago.

Despite not showing the desired results, Huang Yunxi's two old men never gave up. They brought his daughter back home while continuing to run the treatment gradually. They become more alert and more attentive. Their work is temporarily put on hold to accompany the princess and guide her to rediscover her memory. He was placed in his childhood room.

In the first three months, there were no signs that Huang Yunxi's condition would improve. Every day his work was just staring at the window. Not a word came out of his mouth. Occasionally his forehead frowned as a strange prowess appeared in his head.

Until one day, at the end of spring, Huang Yunxi let out a loud scream. At that moment, he was walking on the top floor of the house and accidentally saw an open door. Without thinking much, he went straight in. There are a lot of game app posters on the wall.

Then when his eyes caught an image of a poster of a fantasy royal game, he screamed. Strange prowess that had never appeared before loomed over one by one. He sees himself dressed in ancient maidens, ancient buildings, ancient vocation, overlapping with other memories referring to his modern life.

Huang Yunxi started to feel intense headaches. His head was like being hit by dozens of hammers. His chest was also so tight that he had difficulty breathing. Tears had already flowed so hard. Both of his hands grabbed his own hair, then he shouted very loudly.

Huang Yunxi was just awakened two days later. However, his condition had become much worse than before. Although he could now speak, the cries never stopped coming at him. In the VIP room, Huang Yunxi had often shed tears over the pain she felt in her heart, which spread all over her bones and joints.

He remembered everything. Everything was.

Huang Yunxi had already remembered that she was Huang Yunxi, a gamer girl who had won various matches. He also remembered that he was Huang Yunxi in another world, in a world that told him what it was like to love and be loved.

Moreover, she remembered that she was the future wife and lover of an ancient man named Yuwen Yue. Inside his brain, the fragments of memories with the man came in turn, filling up every fragment of his memories. The memories not only came to her aid, but also inflicted tremendous pain upon her, like an endless amount of pain.

“A-Yue..”.

Huang Yunxi often muttered his name. He knew how he died at that moment. Everything is still clear. Everything felt fresh filling his mind. Huang Yunxi lamented that she had not had time to part well with the man. He regretted not saying such kind words to her.

However, Huang Yunxi had no regrets about sacrificing the rest of her life to save the man.

Other than giving her a new world, Yuwen Yue had made her feel like a real woman. There were times when he was at the weathered point, but could come back cheerful whenever he had a fight fussing over a little thing with her.

His encounters, his quarrels, his adventures, everything had given him a sense of isolation. Yuwen Yue had made him realize that he was just a human being who could forever not be hard-hearted.

The system has given her a beautiful life like a dream. Ah, right, that world might just be part of his dream alone. Huang Yunxi did not know whether after she left, the beautiful world that Yuwen Yue was in was still there or had already been wiped out. He would never be able to go back there again even if he wanted to.

He also did not know whether his mission had been successful or not. The system simply disappears without notice. Ah, many times Huang Yunxi convinced herself that there was no system. What he experienced were all just dreams he had created himself. Yes, the dream that often experienced people dying like him at that time.

But how absurd it would be if the dream had come to that. Although it was true that it was only a dream, Huang Yunxi did not want to forget about it. Everything was too beautiful to throw away, but it was also too painful to remember. Huang Yunxi wanted to remember him even though she had to feel an overwhelming heartache.

“A-Yue, do you really exist? If you're just my imagination and part of my dream, I'm willing to remember it. But if you really exist, can you show yourself? I want to apologize to you and say a good farewell to you.”

Huang Yunxi wiped the tears on her cheeks. His heart ached, but he had to remain firm. People would call him crazy if he kept acting like this. Huang Yunxi chose to keep in mind the figure of Yuwen Yue in her heart, letting her continue to live as a shadow that accompanied her days.

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