Chapter 152. Cream cake
Arc 6 : Sci-fi Rom-com Movie Nightmare
TN:- Technical issues + Health issues + Time management issues + Drowning myself in reading too many novels issues = I am guilty of procrastinating my translation work. Heartless heartfelt sorry. Only 61 chapters left of this novel. I will definitely finish it before the end of april. 🤞
Du Yan was concentrating on watching the situation above and even admired the female host for daring to ask such a sensitive question.
As he watched, he felt something was wrong, and when he turned around, he found Qian Xing beside him with his eyes wide open like an owl.
He took a step back unconsciously and said: “Qian Ge, what’s wrong?”
Qian Xing saw that Du Yan had a confused look on his face and seemed to have not noticed anything. He thought about it and felt that he was overthinking it.
After the work was finished, Qian Xing took advantage of the moment when Du Yan was asking the driver to drive over and asked: “Shao Ge, do you want to cut out the sensitive content in today’s interview?”
Shao Lingheng shook his head and said: “No need, keep it.”
Qian Xing rolled his eyes and suddenly changed his address: “Ge, the standards you just mentioned, are they based on real people? I, this junior, have never seen this type of girl around you in all these years?”
Shao Lingheng glanced at him and said: “Dreamed of.”
Qian Xing finally put his mind at ease. Shao Lingheng usually just didn’t answer questions he didn’t want to answer. If he did answer, it was usually not a lie.
It’s just having a dream about spring, and just casually mentioned the image of the person in the dream. It’s no big deal.
This is what Qian Xing said to himself.
Shao Lingheng’s work and rest schedule is usually very regular. When he is not too busy at work, he will lie down on the bed around 11:50 and fall asleep in about five minutes.
But today, he stared at the ceiling after closing his eyes until half past twelve and still could not fall asleep.
Shao Lingheng was waiting for someone.
All day today, except when he was working, Shao Lingheng was thinking about this matter, especially when the assistant was dangling in front of him, he couldn’t help but think back to what happened in the morning.
That gentle and ambiguous whisper, and that vague dream.
The reason why Shao Lingheng couldn’t sleep was due to something that happened not long ago.
Just two hours ago, Shao Lingheng and two assistants were discussing work in the room, and Qian Xing went out to answer a phone call.
It was just an accident.
Du Yan stood up to get something, but there was a small puddle of water on the ground. He stepped on it, slipped, and lost his balance.
Du Yan’s reaction was actually very quick. He staggered and then used his hands to hold on to something to keep his body in place and avoid falling on the boss.
However, the place where he was holding on was a little wrong.
At that time, Shao Lingheng watched Du Yan’s hand, which had distinct joints and was particularly beautiful, fell on his thigh, just a few centimeters away from the most sensitive spot.
Later, when Qian Xing came back from the phone call, he saw Du Yan sitting on the sofa with an innocent look on his face, pointing in the direction of the bathroom and said: “Shao Ge said he is tired, so we’ll stop here today.”
After the two assistants left, Shao Lingheng lay down on the bed with a chill, but he couldn’t fall asleep no matter what.
The accident just now made him instantly recall some fragments of his dream, but these fragments were not suitable to be recalled in front of others. At that time, Shao Lingheng could only find an excuse and hide in the bathroom awkwardly.
Shao Lingheng still felt that the warm body in his arms when he was half asleep and half awake in the morning was not fake.
He didn’t ask Du Yan whether he had been to his room before because he knew that once he brought up the matter, Du Yan would resign without hesitation.
Shao Lingheng didn’t know why he made such an inference, but he was sure of it.
It would be better for him to wait until something really happens before asking the other party what exactly is going on.
However, although Shao Lingheng’s plan was well thought out, the room was completely quiet, and no one came in until midnight.
Shao Lingheng waited for nearly seven days, sleeping no more than four hours a day. He finally had to convince himself that what happened that morning might really be a dream that was too real.
***
Day 8.
Du Yan stood by the bed, looking at Shao Lingheng, sighed and said to Xiao Ba: “Why has Mr. Shao’s sleep quality has been so poor recently? His face is pale, and he has dark circles under his eyes every day. Not to mention a complete nightmare, he hasn’t even had a dream fragment.”
Xiao Ba said: “This is a normal situation. Ordinary people would never have such complete nightmares like him.”
Du Yan didn’t say any more nonsense, just tapped Shao Lingheng’s forehead and fell into a dream.
He floated in the air, frowning as he looked down at the dream world that clearly had a sci-fi interstellar background and was completely puzzled.
The man in front of him was wearing a pure black suit that looked like a military uniform. His expression was cold and rigid, and it was hard to tell his age.
He looks like a young man in his twenties, but the look in his eyes and his demeanor were as steady and resolute as an elder who had experienced a lot. In short, a contradictory and extremely charismatic man.
“Your Majesty.”
The guard who came in saluted and began reporting after getting permission.
“His Highness has left the home planet and headed to other civilizations to find his compatible partner.”
Du Yan thought for a long time but couldn’t figure out which movie of Shao Lingheng this came from, so he had to ask Xiao Ba for help.
Fortunately, when Du Yan was collecting information, Xiao Ba wrote down everything at once. After searching for a while, he finally found a movie that matched the scene in front of him.
The name of this movie was 《My Alien Boyfriend》. It was normal that Du Yan couldn’t remember it.
There are two reasons.
First, Shao Lingheng was not the lead actor in this movie. He just made a cameo appearance in the movie. Second, this movie is a rom-com, which has nothing to do with nightmares.
With the help of Xiao Ba, Du Yan reviewed the plot of the entire movie. In a nutshell, it was about an Earth Cinderella meeting an alien prince, and after a period of ups and downs, they lived a happy and beautiful life.
As for Shao Lingheng, the role he plays in the movie is the alien prince’s Shushu, the emperor, who has never been able to find a partner because of the unique culture of their planet.
In this movie, his appearance even represented the role of some kind of evil mother-in-law. The almighty alien emperor despised Cinderella from Earth but was eventually moved by her uniqueness.
“……”
After watching it, Du Yan fell into deep thought because he couldn’t find the point where this movie became the source of his nightmare.
He finally asked: “Xiao Ba, do you have any way to identify the source of the nightmare?”
Xiao Ba said: “I only have an auxiliary function. If I can identify it, I will become the divine beast Birch. If you can’t do it, I can’t do it even more.”
Du Yan was somewhat helpless and asked again: “Then do you have any opinion?”
Xiao Ba said: “In my opinion, it is probably because the single dog emperor was forced to eat his nephew’s dog food, which left the root of the nightmare.”
Du Yan was speechless when he heard this. Shao Lingheng didn’t look like the kind of person who would have nightmares because he had no romantic relationship and was forced to eat dog food, right?
In this movie, the way this alien race finds a mate is very strange. They emphasize 100% match of brain waves.
This race has an extremely long lifespan, and when they reach adulthood, they will begin looking for their destined person whose brain waves completely match theirs. If that person is of the same race, everyone naturally will be happy.
If they can not find a suitable lover in their own race, they will drive their spaceships through the universe on a wandering journey lasting a hundred years.
They travel between various planets with signs of life, collecting brain waves from intelligent life, finding their destined lovers, nurturing their feelings, and bringing them back to their own planets.
The heroine of the movie is the perfect lover of the prince of this alien empire. This alien race is highly evolved, and its civilization is several levels higher than that of Earth. According to common sense, it is impossible for the brain waves of Earthlings to match theirs.
But all kinds of impossible things always happen in movies, such as the heroine who is just an ordinary high school student on Earth, unexpectedly becoming the perfect lover of an alien prince.
This led to a series of hilarious incidents, but the comedy finally came to an end.
The emperor played by Shao Lingheng is more tragic. In his hundred-year wandering, he never found his destined lover.
Thinking about it this way, Xiao Ba’s statement is not unreasonable.
Du Yan shook his head, feeling that it was still not right. Nightmares because of being single, he couldn’t convince himself.
He was silent for a moment and made a decision: “Forget it, not eating anymore, let’s go.”
Xiao Ba was startled and asked: “No way, I spent a lot of energy coming in, it doesn’t make sense to just leave like this.”
Du Yan said: “I can’t find the source, and this dream tastes like cream cake. I don’t like eating sweets. Let’s talk about it next time.”
Du Yan never does anything without confidence. Now, he can’t even figure out the source of the nightmare, so he has no idea what to do with the character in the dream. In addition, he doesn’t like the taste of this nightmare, so he naturally chooses to leave.
Although Xiao Ba felt bad about the wasted energy, Du Yan was the one who made the decision after all, so he could only open the passage to leave the dream.
However, just as a faint white light appeared on Du Yan’s body, the entire dream world suddenly shook violently. This shaking even affected Du Yan in the air. He shook, lost consciousness, and plunged into the dream world.
***
Bell——
Du Yan opened his eyes and saw the white ceiling.
An impatient voice came from the side: “That one, Du Yan, go to the cafeteria and fetch breakfast for us first!”
Du Yan had not yet come to his senses, but he quickly got out of bed and started to put on his clothes.
When Du Yan stood in front of the cafeteria window and habitually told what other roommates usually eat in the morning, he finally realized why he had to buy breakfast for those three people.
Du Yan glanced at the pitiful balance on his meal card, remembering that the three people never seemed to have mentioned returning the money for breakfast to him.
“Ayi, don’t need these, just a bowl of porridge and a steamed bun.”
Du Yan smiled apologetically and said to the cafeteria Ayi.
Yes, why on earth did he buy breakfast for those three people? Or was it just a habit that became natural to him?
Du Yan felt a dull pain in his temples and a sense of unreality.
This was clearly just an ordinary day. He was Du Yan, sixteen years old, an ordinary freshman in high school. But why does he feel something is wrong?
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The author has something to say: This dream was inspired by a song by Eason Chan called 《1874》.
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