While chaos reigned in the princess's bedchamber, with one lovesick fool staring at another, their hearts full of grievances, elsewhere, on the outskirts of the Youqiong Kingdom's capital...
"Alas!" Dream Demon put away his erhu and heaved a heavy sigh. Business was hard these days. The lords of the Human Race were locked in constant warfare, leaving the common people suffering beyond words. Almost all their dreams were nightmares. So he had changed targets and set his sights on a noble of the Human Race-that innocent Princess Xiang Yao. But...
Ran Deng, Kong Xuan, Golden Roc, and Nine Li had all come running to join the fun, ruining the princess's sweet dream and turning all his efforts over these past days into bubbles. He had gained nothing.
If this went on, who knew when he would collect his next sweet dream?
At that thought, Dream Demon shook his head. Forget it. He would take things one step at a time. Life had to go on, after all. Then he stood up, ready to leave this place and this kingdom.
However...
Whoosh! A fierce wind suddenly rose, sweeping up countless fallen leaves.
As though sensing something, Dream Demon knitted his brows and turned to look behind him. Only then did he see a passage radiating black-and-white light that had appeared there without his noticing. Then, with a whoosh, an immensely powerful, utterly irresistible suction seized him and sucked him inside in an instant.
After swallowing Dream Demon, the passage vanished, and the fierce wind died with it. Peace returned to the entire grove.
Inside Gungun's Dream World.
The moment Princess Xiang Yao's dream began collapsing, Gungun's consciousness had swiftly returned here. Now, it was half asleep and half awake inside its own dream.
Half asleep and half awake, because its