Shu Weng looked at the sorrowful monsters.
"Everyone, please calm down."
"I promise I won't abandon any of you."
Shu Weng paused, then said solemnly:
"I'm an orphan. I don't know who my parents are. I was abandoned at the Daydream Hotel before I was old enough to remember."
"Mevron, head of the Iris Family, took me in and raised me to be a future star."
Under Yan Huan and March 7th's gaze, Shu Weng continued:
"I had enormous success as a performer, but in the end... the stage wasn't for me. I didn't belong there."
"Life in the spotlight was too loud... I hated being in front of the camera, hated the endless performances and interviews, and hated reciting scripts so dull they made me sick."
"I'd rather be here than surrounded by noisy crowds."
"I wanted a real family."
Yan Huan couldn't help asking:
"By family, do you mean the Commander and the others?"
"Yes." Shu Weng took a deep breath.
"They're all innocent kids. They don't have complicated motives."
"Being with them makes me feel relaxed and happy."
"That's why I can't stand people who treat them like tools and order them around."
"But there are far too many people like that in the dream: selfish, two-faced people who deceive the weak to prop up their fragile pride."
"I left the stage because I wanted to help them."
Shu Weng looked at Yan Huan and March 7th.
"Then, as you saw, the dream began to collapse. The Family sealed off the Dream Hotel, and it became a place where crazed monsters roamed."
"I stayed to find the little ones who'd been abandoned but were still in their right minds."
"I opened this bar to make drinks for the monsters and soothe them however I could. I hoped