Chen Li: Firefly, After You've Had Your Fun Beating Up the Dreammaster, No More Hitting Me, Okay? (1W3, continued)

At that time, Gofei Mu had only just established the rudimentary Paradise of Sweet Dreams. Carrying Xipe's benevolence in his heart, he took in those Dream Chasers who were wicked and had nowhere else to turn. He naively believed that reform could bring redemption, yet those evildoers saw kindness as weakness and sought to establish a new Family to divide up power.

Although those villains had ultimately only humiliated themselves, it was precisely because of the riot they had incited that Gofei Mu lost his body. Though he had luckily clung to life, his soul had been trapped forever within this dream from which he could never awaken.

"At that time... Gofei Mu stood here, facing a fork in fate."

Gofei Mu stopped before that crossroads, slowly turned around, and looked behind him.

"At that time, Gofei Mu stood at the crossroads, beginning to wonder whether Harmony was still the right path. What do you think? If the thing you believed in led you to such a state, why cling to it so stubbornly?"

"Mimi?"

Mimi, lying atop Chen Li's head, tilted her little head. Her huge eyes were filled with huge confusion, clearly unable to understand what lofty nonsense this bad old man Gofei Mu was spouting.

"What the hell are you babbling about?! Why are you acting all cryptic at a time like this?!"

Before Chen Li could answer, the chibi Firefly securely held in his arms instantly bristled.

Firefly waved her tiny arms, trying to struggle out of Chen Li's warm embrace. Looking like a furious little wildcat, she seemed ready to leap up and punch Gofei Mu's kneecaps to pieces.

Ever since learning that Gofei Mu had once cruelly plotted to kill a Glamour Iron Cavalry soldier in order to study the power of "Propagation," Firefly