Hanhai was missing from the map on the wall, yet Xuan Wen was living in Hanhai, experiencing everything the city had to offer. Her friends, her life, and all her emotions truly existed within this city.
Whether they were memories the Shadow World had instilled in her or experiences of her own, they were all connected to Hanhai. Everything was so real, yet now someone was trying to tell her that everything she had experienced and possessed was a lie!
"Why isn't Hanhai on this map?"
Her slender fingers were bloodless as Xuan Wen gently stroked the spot where Hanhai should have been. Lishan Hospital was full of patients. Perhaps this map had been painstakingly drawn by a madman.
"Which side is real? Which side is an illusion?"
"Are we all living in a nightmare we can never wake from?"
"If Hanhai really is a city that doesn't exist, why are we here?"
Lu Zang had said that everyone in this city was controlled by Fate, living, aging, falling ill, and dying according to the script Fate had written. But a handful of people had become loopholes in Fate.
Lishan Hospital seemed to exist for the purpose of finding these people. Every patient in the hospital could be a loophole in Fate, and their physical and mental abnormalities were precisely the proof that they had escaped Fate's control.
"I need to find a way to take this map out." Xuan Wen had not found the ward's occupant. It really seemed as though he had worked something out through his calculations and vanished into thin air within the nightmare.
Gently peeling down the map, Xuan Wen saw incredibly complex divine patterns on its back. Every line looked perfectly natural, as though it could never have been any other way. Every curve