Just as I was about to struggle, the clamor of the guests outside abruptly stopped, and the festive sound of the suona vanished as well.
Then I noticed that the bride before me had stopped moving. She looked as though she had been frozen in place, and soon she turned back into a paper effigy. Thinking about how she had just made my mind wander, I felt deeply uncomfortable, even nauseated.
I hurriedly backed away two steps and was about to rush toward the door when it suddenly flew open.
Someone came in from outside.
Fatty!
It was Fatty!
Fatty, whom I had not seen in a long time.
Xie Yi had said that Fatty had come to Southern Tibet, but Fatty seemed to have gone looking for the Great Living Buddha with Danzeng. Why was he here?
"Fatty, why are you here?" I was overjoyed. It seemed Fatty had come to get me out of this predicament.
But Fatty looked serious. "Jiang Xiaobai, what the hell were you thinking? How did you create a scene like this?"
My eyes widened. Did he mean that I had created this scene?
"Don't look at me like that. This is your mental domain!"
My mental domain?
"That's right, your mental domain. Xiao Qing and Ying Gou, who were with you, have already confirmed it. You even shut them out. My god, do you know how I felt when I saw a hundred or two hundred paper effigies both inside and outside? It was creepy as hell. I was wondering why there wasn't a single real living person in your mental domain. What kind of person are you?"
He was asking what I had been thinking, but I truly hadn't been thinking about anything!
And was this really my mental domain? I could