Jueye is the daughter of a declining powerful family. However, the powerful person who supported the family died at the hands of a being named Sero. In order to maintain their status and aristocratic status, the family sent her to the palace to become a maid.
, studying with the young King of Snakes, and at the same time serving as a sounding board to connect the inside and outside of China Unicom.
Although the King of Snakes has long since fallen, and now it is the Archons who hold power, at least in the eyes of the nobles, the King is still noble.
Even these old nobles still hope that the king can return to power and lead them to rise again.
The family hopes that Jue Ye can become the lover of the King of Snakes, but Jue Ye doesn't seem to want this.
She didn't hate the young and handsome King of Snakes, but she did hate the feeling of being arranged, or the identity of her lover.
She spent a period of time in the palace with such complicated emotions.
She shuttles through the palace every day, occasionally coming to the palace wall and peeking outside from a high place.
But it wasn't until recently that she suddenly felt something was wrong.
On top of the palace wall.
Jueye pointed to the river and boats in the distance and asked his companions: "Did you see it?"
The companion didn't know: "What did you see?"
Jueye was very strange: "Didn't you see that the river outside is motionless most of the time? How can the water not move? And those boats are also very strange. They are always parked there. They only come in the evening every day.
It moved for a while, then stopped again after a while.”
The companion didn't know how to answer: "Oh, it seems so."
Jueye asked: "Don't you think it's strange?"
The companion just asked: "You have never asked these questions before?"
Jue Ye said: "Didn't I just discover it recently?"
Seeing that it was getting dark, the companion immediately pulled Jue Ye down.
"Hurry up, we're going to start serving dinner to the king."
This was Jueye's daily task. Jueye walked down the city wall full of doubts, but still prepared the dinner as the other party said. In fact, she was not the one to prepare it. She just delivered the dinner to the king on time.
After getting the dinner, she was still thinking about what happened before.
Normally, she would take the shortest path, but today she took another path in a daze.
There was some noise at the palace gate. There seemed to be a group of people asking to see the King of Snakes, but they were stopped by the soldiers outside the gate. These soldiers were arranged by the ruling office.
"Let us in."
"How can you prevent us from meeting His Majesty? This is betrayal. Are you still the King's subjects?"
"The king of snakes is the master of this country."
Jueye raised his head and looked at those people curiously.
However, when he saw those people, his pupils were shocked.
Because, she found that these people had no faces.
And some people can only see the side face. When he turns over, the other side of his face is also blank.
These people with no faces or only half faces were talking mechanically and swinging their arms, and the guards were also blocking them with stiff movements, as if they were playing a puppet show.
"ah?"
In an instant, the food box and silver plate in Jue Ye's hand fell down with a scream.
This immediately attracted the attention of those people, causing everyone to look at Jue Ye at the same time.
Faceless and soulless eyes looked at Jue Ye, which frightened Jue Ye.
Jue Ye even heard their whispers.
"Why are you here?"
"It shouldn't be here."
"Why are you here?"
"..."
It seemed that everyone was very surprised.
It seems that he is surprised that a character who does not belong to this scene has appeared on this stage.
Jue Ye was so frightened that he ran away like crazy and ran back quickly.
She ran back tremblingly, told her companions who were already standing at the door of the palace what she had just seen, and recounted her experience in shock.
"I just...I just saw..."
"On the other side of the palace gate, the people there have no faces, or only have half a face..."
"me……"
But her companion nodded indifferently and just told her.
"We should go in, we can't let the king wait for us."
After listening, Jue Ye could only close his mouth.
But the things in her hands had been knocked over, so she panicked and walked inside empty-handed.
While she was thinking about what had just happened, she wondered whether she would be punished later.
However, when she entered, she saw her fellow maid placing something on an empty seat on the long table, then saluting respectfully and addressing the other person respectfully.
After seeing that she was a little slower, she shouted to Jue Ye.
"Hurry up, Jue Ye."
"Bring over what you are holding, hurry up!"
Standing in front of the empty long table, Jue Ye felt creepy and his body was so cold that he felt as if he had fallen into an ice cave.
The other party seemed unable to see that the seat was empty, as if there was someone sitting in the invisible air.
The other party also seemed unable to see that Jue Ye's hands were empty, and it seemed that in the other's eyes she was still holding the food box.
She looked at her companion and asked, "Where is the king?"
But the companion replied: "Where is the king?"
But looking in the direction the other party said, Jue Ye couldn't see anything.
She didn't understand whether she was crazy or the companion in front of her was crazy.
At night, Jue Ye turned over and over thinking.
"Why, why is it so strange?"
"Why do those people have no face?"
"king!"
"By the way, why is the king missing? Why can't I see the king?"
"Hey, what does Wang look like? He seems very good-looking, but why is he so good-looking?"
She came here when she was still young, so she should be very familiar with Wang's life.
But why did she feel like she had never met Wang before and couldn't even remember his appearance?
Jue Ye rolled over and got up, becoming even more panicked.
“So, it’s not that there’s a problem now, but there was a problem a long, long time ago?”
"Why?"
"Why didn't I notice it before?"
the next day.
Jue Ye decided to find the King of Snakes.
Jue Yeman searched everywhere in the palace, but still could not find the king. At the same time, he also discovered more strange things.
She saw that many of the books on the bookshelves had no words. She saw that when the door of some hidden rooms was opened, there was a wall inside. She also followed a person who came to visit, but she found that the person walked out of the palace.
The door disappeared into the air.
She determined that the king might not be in the palace, and he might have escaped.
The missing king, a strange world, no people with mechanical and stiff faces.
She felt.
Perhaps Wang was also a person who discovered that all this was abnormal like her, so he ran away.
If you leave here or find the king, will you know the secret behind everything?
Next.
Jueye mustered up her courage and prepared to rush out of the palace gate, but when she left, she was stopped by the guards at the palace gate.
The guards with only half a face stopped her and repeated this over and over again.
"You can't leave!"
"You can't leave!"
"You can not……"
Jue Ye looked at these rigid people and felt even more problematic.
Two more days passed.
She finally found a flaw in the rigid and rigid guards, slipped down from the city wall with a rope, and entered the city outside.
She entered the street and stood at a bustling intersection.
However, at this moment, she felt that her mind was blank, just like the blank faces of passers-by.
People were coming and going on the street, but everyone's faces were blank, without facial features, and even their body shapes were similar. Only Jueye looked normal, or because of this, she looked normal.
It seems the strangest of them all.
Jue Ye has gradually accepted the absurdity of this world, at least he won't be as panicked as before.
She kept walking forward until she came to the river.
She finally saw the boats docked by the river. Before, she could only look at them from a distance on the palace wall. One of them was not too far away from her.
She hesitated and prepared to swim over and climb onto the boat.
This is something she's wanted to do for a long time.
However, something strange happened. She walked forward and fell into the water.
"Wow!"
But he found himself passing through a ripple and falling downwards.
She felt as if she had passed through a void, and then returned to where she was, reappearing on the shore.
"?"
"what happened?"
Jueye didn't understand what was going on. She penetrated the ripples over and over again, and could see that the violent waves were constantly vibrating along the edge of the world, passing to higher places.
"Why?"
"Why can't you get through?"
At this time, someone suddenly spoke.
"Because I haven't been to the other side of the river. There are only pictures and people I've seen here."
A figure stood by the river. It seemed that Jue Ye's actions had completely disrupted the world and caused everything to collapse, which also forced him to start appearing.
Jue Ye turned around and looked at the other person warily: "Who are you?"
He was a young man, but Jueye obviously didn't recognize him, and only felt that his facial features were somewhat familiar.
The young man looked at Jue Ye and said something.
"Jueye?"
"You shouldn't be here?"
Jueye was very confused: "How do you know me?"
The man didn't speak, he just looked at the sky.
"You've made too much noise, and everything has to start again."
Then, Jue Ye saw a stunned scene.
The sun reverses its direction, its body shrinks little by little, and day and night are constantly alternating.
It's like time is going back.
However, she always stayed where she was, looking at the person in front of her at a loss.
"What are you doing?"
The man looked at Jue Ye and seemed to be stunned.
"Why, why aren't you affected?"
The other party seemed to have seen a ghost. After looking at Jue Ye for a while, he disappeared and left, seemingly to find the cause of the problem.
But Jue Ye stayed where he was, with a blank look on his face.
"Hello!"
"where did you go?"
"You haven't answered my question yet?"
——
Jueye had too many doubts. She didn't know what to do, so she could only walk towards home.
She looked at her hands and touched her face.
"How did I get smaller?"
She didn't notice that the surrounding buildings had also undergone some changes compared to when she came.
Before she got home, she saw her parents looking for her in panic near her home.
"What's the matter with you? Today you have to go in with the people in the palace. How can you run around blindly?"
Jueye turned his head and saw a familiar luxury vehicle.
That was the car that the King of Ten Thousand Snakes used to pick her up. When she was very young, she rode this car to the palace with excitement and fear.
"how come?"
Jue Ye looked at this scene and became even more confused.
Jue Ye was sent to the palace again in this daze.
In a daze and confusion, she once again accepted training from a strict female instructor, who taught her how to become an elegant palace lady.
She really went back to her childhood, experiencing everything familiar.
"How is this going?"
"Is it my imagination?"
Jueye wondered if there was something wrong with his head or he had a bizarre dream.
It was only when she climbed the high wall again one day and saw the stagnant river that she suddenly woke up again.
She set a fire in an unoccupied warehouse and burned a corner of the palace. The whole palace was in chaos.
In panic, she ran outside.
But when she looked back, she found that the fire had subsided, everything in the palace had been reset, and the fire had shrunk back.
It's like anything that doesn't conform to the rules and doesn't fit in someone's memory will be gradually corrected and turned into the picture in his memory.
This world is just a fixed painting that cannot tolerate any changes.
"Why?"
"Why is this happening?"
Jueye knew that all this must be related to the strange figure she saw before.
She crossed the street desperately, shouting loudly.
"Come out, I know you are watching me."
"Come out."
Jue Ye keeps breaking into scenes that don't belong to her, attracting more and more people's attention. She breaks the original normal order and makes the whole world go against the originally set direction.
The strange ripples appeared again, constantly escaping towards the surroundings.
She was like a ball of black paint falling into a bucket, spreading out quickly, and as her movements and resistance became more intense, it continued to expand at a faster pace.
The world is distorted again, and everything begins to reset again.
The world is spinning and time is flowing backwards.
Jueye saw with helpless eyes that he was back to the day when he first entered the palace, and also saw the vehicle with the mark of ten thousand snakes parked in front of his house.
At this time, she also saw that figure again.
The other party was already standing here waiting for me in advance.
As soon as they met, the other party said:
"I probably found the reason."
"It's a part of you that has always followed me and entered my dreams."
"I said why I can't fall into a dream and why I always feel like someone is interfering with my dreams."
"It turns out that you woke up."
Jue Ye felt that it was so strange. The person in front of him always appeared inexplicably and said incomprehensible words.
"What's the meaning?"
She had so many doubts that she wanted to ask, so instead of worrying about what the other person was saying, she asked the other person loudly.
"Why do I go back to being a kid?"
“Why doesn’t the water in the river sometimes flow?”
"Why do people on the street have no faces?"
"Why isn't there a way to cross that line by the river?"
"Why is this world so weird?"
Too many whys filled Jue Ye's mind one after another.
Finally, she looked at the tall, mature young man in front of her.
"besides."
"who are you?"
The young man walked towards Jueye and looked at her face.
"Because only in the evening will I go to the city wall and look at the scenes outside."
"At that time, you will stay with me and we will watch the boat sail across the river together."
"I have never met those people in the city, or have only had a glimpse of their faces, so they are incomplete in my eyes."
"I haven't been to many places, and those places are strange and unknown to me."
"So in this world, many things are strange and unknown."
Jueye became more and more confused as he listened, until finally the other party said.
"Because, all this is a dream, all my memories turned into the dream of life."
The young man looked at Jue Ye and said his name.
"And I am Ackerman."
Of course Jueye knew this name, it was the king's name.
"His Majesty?"
"How can it be?"
"Your Majesty is only a teenager. It's impossible. You can't be him."
Ackerman said: "I will grow up too, Jueye."
Jueye looked at Ackerman's brows and seemed to vaguely understand where his invisible sense of familiarity came from.
At this moment, Jue Ye vaguely believed everything the other party said, and once again thought seriously about what the other party had just said.
"So this is your dream of life, Your Majesty, are you already dead?"
"And I am just a shadow in your dream."
Jueye comes from a family of powerful people, so of course he also knows some secrets and legends about the dream of life.
Ackerman looked at Jue Ye, he could face many people.
Even when facing those old gods, he was able to look them in the face without showing any signs of weakness.
But only, I couldn't face the girl in front of me.
"You are real, Jueye."
"Because a part of you will always be with me."
Jueye asked: "Why, how could I really exist in your dream of life? Isn't this your dream?"
Ackerman lowered his head deeply. He did not answer, but simply said repeatedly: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry."
Jueye still didn't understand: "What are you talking about?"
Ackerman covered his face in pain and refused to say anything.
Jue Ye looked at Ackerman's confused appearance and was stunned, not knowing what to do.
Should I scold him loudly or comfort him?
She could only ask Ackerman: "So, how long has this dream been going on and how many times has it happened?"
She said somewhat helplessly: "Also, how long will it continue?"
——
In the secret room deep in the palace.
Ackermanmon has been busy with something. He is always looking at the sky, looking for something.
He used silver ink to write a twisted name on the paper, and then wrote Jue Ye's name on it, as if he was preparing something.
recent.
This cycle of life's dreams seems to be starting to stabilize, at least it doesn't collapse one after another.
Everything seems to be back to normal.
Although Ackerman still couldn't completely immerse himself in the dream and was disturbed by the "awakening one".
On this day, Jue Ye, who had grown up a bit, came here.
Jueye looked at this place: "This is the first time I know that there is a secret room here."
Ackerman: "I also discovered the gap here later and then renovated it."
Ackerman didn't say why it was built. He put things in order and then looked at Jueye.
"How are you feeling lately?"
Jue Ye: "Are you okay?"
Then he added: "It just feels like everything has become boring."
Jueye seemed to accept this fact and seemed nonchalant.
But this apparent toughness cannot deceive a man like Ackerman, who has experienced ups and downs and founded a cult to rule tens of millions of people.
He could see that deep down in his heart, Jue Ye couldn't accept it at all.
But there are some things that you don't know, but once you know them, you can no longer accept this situation calmly.
She looks free and easy, but in fact it is more like giving up in despair and no longer expecting anything.
Ackerman looked at Jue Ye and said, "I can send you out."
Sure enough, Jue Ye, who had been nonchalant just now, immediately asked: "How to send it out?"
She clenched her hands tightly into fists, her eyes filled with anticipation.
After all, not everyone can face despair and the erosion of time with determination.
Akmanmon told Jueye: "I created a prop that locks my dream of life and at the same time projects my dreams and memories into the human world for rebirth."
"I can let it project you out, so you can come back to life."
Jue Ye couldn't believe it. She thought this was a god-like method: "Is it true that you can even do this kind of thing?"
But after thinking for a while, she thought it was possible: "It seems that your Majesty, you have become very powerful in the future?"
Ackerman nodded: "That's right!"
Ackermann took out a blueprint and told her the steps.
At the end of the story, he looked at Jue Ye.
"You will be reborn in the body of another person who just died. Can you accept it?"
Jue Ye found it a bit hard to accept, but at least this was much better than living in this illusory dream.
"Actually, what is reborn is not the real you, but the part of you in my memory."
"Do you still think it's acceptable?"
Jueye asked: "For me, does it feel any different?"
Ackermann said: "There is no difference. You will only feel that you are falling into darkness, and then your eyes will light up, and you will be reborn."
"As for the changes and philosophical significance, they have nothing to do with you."
Jueye turned his head and looked at the outside world, and finally sighed and said.
"Do I have a choice?"
"When I wake up in your dream, I can only choose to stay in your dream or choose to leave."
"It would be okay if I didn't know that all this is illusion, but now that I know it, it will be difficult for me to look at this place from a normal perspective."
Jueye made up his mind: "I need to say goodbye."
But after thinking for a while, Jue Ye said again: "Maybe, no need."
Since everything is just Ackermann's dream, what's the point of commemorating and saying goodbye?
Ackermanmeng took Jue Ye outside and looked at the sky again.
He stretched out his hand and could see a large amount of information in the dream converging, all of which were about Jue Ye.
In the end, they all fell into Jue Ye's body.
"I have collected all the information about you in my dreams during this time."
"As long as this information is transferred out, you will disappear in my dream and appear in the real world."
Ackerman seemed to have already thought of everything, and it was not a sudden move.
Jue Ye: "You are ready."
Ackerman nodded: "Yeah!"
Jue Ye did not expect that everything would proceed so fast, and the moment Ackermann proposed was the moment it started.
It seems that separation is right in front of you.
——
in the sun.
Jue Ye stood on the palace wall. She and Ackerman were the only two people here.
Ackerman waved his hand, wanting to send Jue Ye away.
Jueye looked at him and suddenly interrupted Akmanmeng: "Can I ask what happened next?"
She hesitated to speak, but finally asked: "It seems that something else happened between us, but I haven't experienced that in your dream yet."
Ackerman said: "Later, I became a bad person."
Jue Ye: "Why?"
Ackerman recalled Thurlow's words in his mind: "Why do you always feel that this world has choices?"
But facing Jue Ye, he didn't like to say such cruel words, but said in another tone: "You will become stronger because you fall. Isn't that the story we read when we were children?"
Jue Ye: "What then?"
Ackerman: "Then he was defeated by the messenger of justice!"
It sounds like an extremely cliche story, especially when Ackerman told it in such a plain and uneventful tone.
Jue Ye chuckled: "That's it?"
Ackerman: "That's it."
The less you want to talk about some things and the more you describe them in an understatement, the more depressing it will be.
Without words, it seems to represent a deep pain.
Jue Ye asked: "No, you haven't told us what happened to us later?"
Ackerman: "Then let me be more careful. I became a bad person and then killed you. You resented me, so you kept pestering me."
Jueye didn't want to believe it, so he asked again: "If I leave, will I no longer be in your life and dreams?"
Ackermenmon said: "I talk about you as if you are very important. You have been disturbing my dreams, just like being haunted by an innocent ghost."
"Leave quickly, don't disturb my sweet dream."
Jue Ye was a little disappointed, but also felt a little more relaxed.
Akmanmeng finally raised his hand at this time, and saw rays of light surrounding Jue Ye, sending her to a high place.
She kept floating up, carrying information belonging to Jue Ye.
Higher than the sea of clouds, higher than the sky.
Jueye looked back on the way out and could no longer see the shadow of Ackerman, but could vaguely see the dream of life.
But at the moment when he looked back, Jue Ye saw that it was a dream wrapped in black and gray light, obscure and dusty.
"Is that really a sweet dream?"
Jueye looked at the other end again, with expectation in his eyes.
Because the other side is the real world.
But she didn't know why, she always felt like something was wrong.
Suddenly, she turned her head and looked towards the dream.
"That's not right. Where is the silver-looking prop that Ackermann mentioned?"
And the other end.
Deep in the dream world.
The magical tool, the Silver Insect, started to move.