Chapter 195. Diary
Arc 7 : Last Nightmare
Three days later, Du Yan left the painting again.
This time his goal was very clear, he went straight to Cheng Yu’s room after leaving the office room.
In order to prevent Cheng Yu from waking up midway and wasting this rare opportunity, Du Yan did not hesitate and reached out to touch Cheng Yu’s face.
Fortunately, he remembered what happened last time, slowed down his movements, and left as soon as he touched him.
Afterward, Du Yan touched the bed sheet next to him, and it was exactly as he had guessed. After coming into contact with Cheng Yu, he became a physical body.
Cheng Yu might wake up at any time, so Du Yan didn’t waste any more time and turned around to go to the office.
Unexpectedly, things were not as smooth as expected.
Du Yan looked at his hand passing through the door and fell into deep thought.
So, after touching Cheng Yu and becoming a physical body, he can not leave too far? If that is the case, Du Yan can only wait until Cheng Yu falls asleep in the office before he can have the chance to touch the notebook.
Cheng Yu is a very self-disciplined person and is very methodical in doing things. The office is a place for work, so he will never sleep in the study.
Things were at a standstill for a while. Du Yan stood beside the bed and looked at Cheng Yu with deep eyes.
Just when he was thinking about whether he could knock Cheng Yu unconscious and then drag him to the study, Xiao Ba spoke up in time to stop his somewhat unreliable criminal idea.
Xiao Ba said: “I have checked the data development in the past few days. This dream world is derived from Cheng Yu’s previous dream world.”
“Derive?”
Xiao Ba nodded: “In other words, this dream world is not the previous dream world, but it is developed on the basis of the previous dream world.”
“So, the Governor Cheng Yu in front of us is the reincarnation of the previous Emperor Cheng Yu…” Du Yan speculated and uttered a word, “Reincarnation?”
Xiao Ba said: “You can understand it that way. But from the analysis of the dream world data I monitored, you are still from Emperor Cheng Yu’s dream world.”
Du Yan probably understood what Xiao Ba meant and said: “You mean, I am not from this world, so I can not touch the things of this world?”
“Cheng Yu is your only connection with this dream world,” Xiao Ba said: “Only through Cheng Yu can you connect with this dream world and touch the things around you.”
The answer given by Xiao Ba is no different from Du Yan’s previous analysis.
Du Yan asked the key point directly: “So? You found a way to extend physical time?”
“Well, this thing…”
Xiao Ba suddenly became a little hesitant when he said this.
When Du Yan heard this, he felt that the situation was anything but reassuring, but the current predicament did not allow him to think too much.
“Just say it.”
“It’s actually very simple. The deeper the contact, the deeper the connection between you and this dream world. In short, a touch lasts only a few seconds, a hug lasts a few minutes, and if you want to go to the office to read the diary, you probably have to kiss.”
“A kiss?” Du Yan always felt it wasn’t that simple.
“Well, deep kiss, you know.”
Xiao Ba threw down these words and quickly ran away, not daring to say another word.
“……”
Du Yan always felt like an evil spirit sucking people’s energy in the middle of the night, and was somewhat dissatisfied with this kind of dream in which he could not set his character in advance.
Du Yan always felt that this dream seemed to always make him break a certain bottom line, from the cat role play in the previous dream to the nocturnal attack and suckin people’s vitality in this dream.
So what exactly is going on in Shao Lingheng’s mind behind his serious expression?
Du Yan recalled what Qian Xing had said before, that Shao Lingheng never had any emotions, and wondered if everyone had been fooled by his expressionless face.
Judging from the experience of entering the subconscious level now, Shao Lingheng is a person with rich inner emotions!
Xiao Ba curled up in the corner and shivered. He felt that Du Yan was a little scary now.
Du Yan adjusted his mentality to avoid being distracted by Yuan Yan’s personality. There was not much he could do about the current situation. If he wanted to break the situation, he had to pay something.
Even this thing is Du Yan’s moral integrity.
Du Yan was about to kneel on the bed, but his gorgeous clothes restricted his movements. He frowned, lifted up his skirt and knelt down.
Fortunately, Du Yan had recovered his incorporeal state at this time, otherwise Cheng Yu would have woken up again with this somewhat rough action.
Du Yan rested his hands on the pillow, then leaned over, the distance between the two getting closer and closer.
When their lips touched, Du Yan stopped.
This method seems to have a fatal flaw. Once he touches Cheng Yu, he will become a physical body. Cheng Yu is not seriously injured and unconscious, he is just sleeping. As a soldier who has experienced many battles, how could he not wake up if he kisses him more deeply?
This is a complete paradox. As long as Cheng Yu wakes up, he will be forced to return to the painting, and all his efforts will be in vain.
Du Yan felt that his brain might have short-circuited just now, which was why he thought that the method proposed by Xiao Ba was indeed a solution.
Just as he was about to withdraw, a pair of strong arms suddenly grabbed Du Yan’s waist, and then the person underneath him kissed his lips.
Du Yan was stunned, thinking that Cheng Yu had woken up. He opened his eyes and found that his eyes were closed.
What is happening?
Du Yan stopped to think, but Cheng Yu, who was still in a dream, seemed a little dissatisfied with Du Yan’s lack of reaction and bit his lips lightly.
Du Yan only felt a stinging pain in his lips, and he subconsciously separated his lips.
Cheng Yu can perfectly grasp the opportunity on the battlefield as a commander. As long as the enemy shows the slightest flaw, he can rush in and attack the enemy.
His style at this time was the same as on the battlefield. The moment Du Yan’s lips parted, he started to attack without hesitation, completely suppressing the opponent’s resistance.
Du Yan was so shocked by the sudden and aggressive kiss that he lost his composure for a moment and had to dodge passively. However, the two men were not at the same level of strength, so Du Yan could only be kissed hard all over.
Seeing the air in the cold bedroom slowly warming up and the situation seeming to be getting out of control, Du Yan’s always-on rationality prevailed again.
The purpose of his night raid was not to be dragged to bed by Cheng Yu for no reason. Du Yan struggled several times, but to no avail. He then clenched his teeth and bit the tip of the tongue that was raging in his mouth.
“Uhh——”
Cheng Yu felt pain and finally withdrew.
Du Yan saw his brows slightly wrinkled, and then he opened his eyes.
“……”
Cheng Yu looked at the darkness in front of him, raised his hand and rubbed his brow, and seemed to be still trapped in the vivid dream just now.
What happened just now?
He stared at the ceiling blankly, somewhat unable to react.
The dream just now was so real. The person who was always like a flower in the mirror or a moon in the water came to his side.
Cheng Yu raised his hand and looked at his palm. The smooth texture of the person’s clothes and the soft waist underneath the clothes were so realistic that he even mistakenly thought the person in the painting really existed.
What was even more strange was the residual stinging sensation on the tip of the tongue. Cheng Yu could even feel the sweet and fishy taste left in his mouth, as if the tip of his tongue had really been bitten.
This feeling disappeared quickly, like an illusion.
He often dreamed of that person, but in dreams, that person was always as far away as the moon in the sky and out of reach. This somewhat abrupt dream tonight was the first time.
Cheng Yu felt a sense of loss in his heart, and even secretly blamed himself for waking up so easily. Such a rare and beautiful dream ended just as it began.
He sat on the bed in silence for a while. For the first time, after dreaming about that person, he did not get up to write it down in the study, but fell on the bed again and tried to fall asleep.
Du Yan, who was in the study, looked at everything familiar in front of him and felt a little helpless.
It is indeed a paradox. Cheng Yu’s awakening is inevitable, and so is his return to the painting.
Just as Du Yan frowned and thought about how to solve this problem, he suddenly became lighter and appeared in the office.
Cheng Yu fell asleep again?
Du Yan didn’t care too much. If Xiao Ba was right, he should still be able to touch the things in the office .
Thinking of this, Du Yan walked directly to the desk and opened the drawer next to the desk.
There was a locker inside the drawer, but Du Yan had seen Cheng Yu take things out of it, so he naturally memorized the combination.
He turned it a few times, and the combination lock opened. The things in the combination locker were very simple, all black notebooks of the same style.
The diary is not too long, and the content is all related to Cheng Yu’s dream.
These dreams are all fragmented images and dialogues, with no coherent plot, and many are even repetitive.
Cheng Yu first dreamed of Du Yan when he was ten years old.
He had this dream many times that year. In the snow, a girl in gorgeous clothes came walking on the snow, bent down and smiled at him, then said something.
However, Cheng Yu had never heard the content of that sentence clearly.
Du Yan looked at the childish handwriting in the diary and recalled that in the dream world, their first meeting was when Cheng Yu was ten years old.
Could it be that Cheng Yu’s dream is consistent with Cheng Yu’s growth experience in his previous life?
Sure enough, in the following diary, Du Yan got the answer.
The dream about the ancient princess almost permeates Cheng Yu’s entire growth process.
In the dream, Cheng Yu grew up with the princess, and he knew that the princess was very kind to him despite her domineering appearance.
He also knew that he had always wanted to leave this place, and he had the ambition to be king. And that ambition was not for the world, but for the ability to get the princess who was high above him.
Cheng Yu’s dream ended when the princess was sixteen years old. At that time, he was already the king and was sitting in the teahouse, waiting for the princess whom he had not seen for a long time.
His goal is to marry the princess.
After more than ten years, the dream did not continue. Cheng Yu still often dreamed of the princess, but they were all scenes he had dreamed of before.
Until recently, Cheng Yu had a strange dream. He dreamed of himself wearing splendid clothes.
The dream self said: “Do you want to see him? Come here.”
When Cheng Yu woke up, he was surprised to find that the place mentioned in his dream was the place where their Cheng clan originated.
Cheng Yu originally just wanted to live there for a while to see if the things in his dream could continue. Unexpectedly, he encountered the fearless tomb robbers who dug a hole and tried to rob the ancestral tomb of the Cheng clan.
After Cheng Yu entered the ancient tomb, he discovered that the rumored tomb of Cheng clan’s ancestry was actually an emperor’s mausoleum, and the emperor’s name was exactly the same as his.
Cheng Yu.
Cheng Yu learned from the inscription that the owner of the mausoleum was actually the legendary Emperor of Cheng era. This was a joint burial tomb, but the person buried with the Emperor of Cheng era was not the empress, but the Imperial Preceptor.
Emperor Cheng Yu never married in his life, which is recorded in history.
The writing on the stele is no longer clear, and the name of the Imperial Preceptor is unknown.
Cheng Yu suddenly remembered the princess. In his dreams, the princess always called him Cheng Yu with a haughty expression.
If the dream was really related to Emperor Cheng Yu, then where did the princess whom Emperor Cheng Yu loved when he was young go, and why was he finally buried with the Imperial Preceptor?
Cheng Yu did not get an answer to his question, but he later saw the painting in the tomb. The painting depicted the princess who had repeatedly appeared in his dreams.
After taking the painting out of the tomb, Cheng Yu never had dreams again, and even the fragments that he had dreamed about repeatedly in the past never appeared again.
Until a few days ago, the dream had new developments.
Cheng Yu, who was in the teahouse, saw the princess push the door open and then confessed his feelings and proposed to marry her. However, the princess’s answer surprised Cheng Yu, as she actually started to undress directly.
Perhaps it was because of shock, Cheng Yu woke up in the middle of a dream for the first time.
After seeing this, Du Yan finally understood where his current situation came from.
Why did he appear in the painting, and in this painting dressed as a woman? This is entirely because of the consciousness of the Lord of Dreams.
Cheng Yu’s dream only lasted until he was sixteen years old. At that time, Du Yan had not yet recovered his male identity, so Cheng Yu naturally thought that Du Yan was the female Princess Yuan Yan.
Everything in the diary confirmed Du Yan’s speculation.
When Cheng Yu dreams of Princess Yan, he will firmly believe in the existence of Princess Yan, so Du Yan can appear from the scroll. However, when Cheng Yu wakes up, he will naturally think that those are just dreams, and Du Yan will return to the scroll.
This makes things a bit troublesome. Du Yan is completely unable to contact Cheng Yu who is awake, and naturally he cannot make the other party believe in his existence.
Du Yan pondered for a moment, and his eyes fell on Cheng Yu’s diary. He was reading the last sentence of the diary entry from a few days ago.
Who are you?
Since they can’t communicate face to face, they can only use pen and paper. Thinking of this, Du Yan picked up the pen beside him, and when he was about to put it down, he took his hand back.
He is now Yuan Yan who came from the Cheng Dynasty, and leaving a message with a pen is too flawed. Fortunately, in this period, traditional civilization and modern civilization are intertwined, and Cheng Yu still has brushes and ink in his study.
Du Yan ground the ink and then picked up the brush to write a line of words.
I am Prince Yan...
Just as Du Yan was about to continue writing down some details that were not in the notebook in order to gain Cheng Yu’s trust, a strong suction force came from the scroll.
Du Yan didn’t even have time to let go of the brush before he returned to the scroll.
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