The medicine bottle was tiny, with no manufacturing date or brand, only two words printed so small they were impossible to spot without looking closely—Dream Awakening.
Perhaps the truth of the entire world was hidden in this bottle of medicine. Banban gazed at the white pills and slowly unscrewed the cap.
In his memories, he had grown up in Xinhu. As one of the Abnormal People who never fit in, he had only seemed to find a home after meeting Mr. Shi Que.
Banban poured a pill into his palm. He was neither particularly brave nor decisive and clever. He had always felt he was the most ordinary of all his adoptive father's children.
After hesitating for a long time, Banban picked up a glass of water and put the pill in his mouth.
Before he could drink, the glass had already fallen to the floor. Glass and the world shattered together, and Banban's memories splintered. He began to see all sorts of strange things. It was as though he had grown another half of his body, made of flesh and blood, except that half seemed to exist in another world.
It was an utterly abnormal Xinhu, where everyone was governed by reason. They had tens of thousands of laws and regulations, highly advanced technology, and an entire city endowed with intelligence. The people living there were happy, yet plagued by stress and anxiety. They turned the beauty of their imaginations into the brain-domain game, leaving their bodies mired in reality.
"Xinhu, Xinhu—"
Banban fell to the floor, bracing himself with his hands. In his daze, he seemed to have grown another half of his body. He had become the intersection of two worlds, lying between absurdity and reality.
"Which side has actually gone mad? And why do both sides