"Every part of my body was scarred—my neck, my stomach, my chest. I've seen my own organs after they were taken out. My head was once twisted all the way around..." Gao Ming sat in the covered bridge, his hands trembling. The Butcher's Knife lay beside him, but he made no move to pick it up.
"What kind of despair, what could have driven me to keep going even after dying so many times? What exactly was it!"
"Was it fate?"
"I forgot. Why did I forget the most important part!"
"How did I leave that nightmare? How did I leave that city called Hanhai! Where is that city? Is it deep in my heart? Do I have to dig my heart open and look?"
Pain filled his eyes. Gao Ming had been pursuing the truth all along, but he had never imagined it would hurt him so much.
Perhaps the right thing to do was to stop caring about everything and simply live with Liu Yi. That was the happiest choice Gao Ming could make. Perhaps he should forget.
"No." Gao Ming clutched his head. "No, no! Someone's waiting for me! Why are they waiting? Are they waiting for me to return? Or are they waiting for me to do something?"
The river outside Dreamfold Town flowed quietly. The blood and filth had washed away, and the Water Dragon King had vanished, but Gao Ming had no intention of leaving.
Releasing a nightmare meant facing what one loathed most deep inside. On his very first attempt, Gao Ming had encountered the Water Dragon King, who governed fear in Dreamfold Town. The creature had directly unearthed his deepest terror. The moment fate appeared, both Gao Ming and the Water Dragon King had been shaken to their cores.
"Um... leaving the