"Damn it, it's like this every time. The moment I bring it up, I wake up right away. I can't get even the tiniest detail out of her!" Ye Lang woke from his dream and cursed. This seemed far from the first time he had cursed over it.
Then he—
Of course, went back to sleep. But this time, he did not see the girl again, and slept dreamlessly until dawn.
This had been going on for roughly three years. At first, Ye Lang had not paid it much mind. He simply chatted with the girl, treating it as nothing more than a dream.
Back then, he had even thought the girl was Tiger Girl's manifestation. It happened to begin after Tiger Girl had left; perhaps it was the result of thinking of her by day and dreaming of her by night.
But later, he realized that was not the case. Though he forgot what the girl looked like every time he woke up—just as he still did now—that was precisely why he could not determine what the dream meant, nor whether the girl in it truly existed.
Still, he could be certain that the girl was not Tiger Girl. He knew Tiger Girl too well, yet he could not find a single thing about this girl that resembled Tiger Girl. He quickly dismissed that possibility.
Although he forgot the girl's features every time he woke up, whenever he entered the dream again, he could recognize her with ease and clearly remember what she looked like. That was another thing he found strange.
Once Ye Lang sensed that something was amiss, he began trying every possible way to pry into the girl's identity. But whenever she tried to answer, the dream would immediately break off.
Even the slightest information gleaned