Even the Best Dreams Have a Time to Wake Up

"Phew."

In Aurora Aria's VIP seats, Caroline watched Jing Liuli onstage for a moment, then slowly raised her head.

A snowflake drifted down from the concert hall ceiling, landing right on her green cat ear.

She instinctively raised a hand to touch it. The snowflake melted at her fingertips, leaving behind a faintly icy wet mark.

Before long, more snowflakes began to fall.

Some landed on the stage, some on the backs of the audience seats, and some even drifted onto Jing Liuli's hair.

When snowflakes landed on Jing Liuli's face, she merely frowned slightly, yet never stopped singing. Everything continued as before.

Seeing this, Caroline softly said, "Is it snowing? Then it seems the Liuli in the dream is nearing her own critical moment too, isn't she?"

With that thought, Caroline lowered her head again and focused on her data tablet.

Although Aurora Aria was unlikely to encounter any further problems now.

Tiandao's task for her was to ensure that even that one-in-ten-thousand possibility never came to pass.

Therefore, although she could have entered the Dream World as well and seen those unique childhood memories belonging solely to Jing Liuli.

Caroline ultimately chose restraint.

Because everyone else could relax, but she alone could not.

Even if what she did, and she herself, might ultimately be meaningless, she still had to do it.

That was the "meaning" of her existence.

Jing Liuli's Dream: Rooftop of an Old Residential Building

As snow began falling at the real-world Seaside Concert Hall Aurora Aria, snowflakes began drifting through the city in the Dream World as well.

The fallen city beneath the heavy snow had lost much of its former bustle and prosperity, gaining a rare stillness and desolation instead.

Creak!

Amid the grating sound of old metal, Little Liuli struggled to push open