Novel Full Chapter 1646 - 1639: Who Can Enter the Dream to Save Zi Wei
Chapter 1646 -1639: Who Can Enter the Dream to Save Zi Wei
“A person with a venomous mind can cling to life through sheer resentment, but a demon’s eyes—those have long been accustomed to such darkness,” Chu Yihan said softly, his fingers interlocked with Su Yingxue’s.
“Accustomed to darkness?” Su Yingxue was puzzled.
“Many people will experience joy and sorrow, the bittersweet and harsh realities of life. Even if they stray onto dark paths, they’ve at least seen the light at some point in their lives. But not him, not the Demon Eyes. From the moment he appeared, he had already sought refuge with Chu Yifeng in the ghostly market;
the ghostly market—a place neither fully human nor ghostly, the very environment he most desires. It proves he was born into darkness and grew alongside it.
Even when he escaped Chu Yifeng’s captivity, he never left the ghostly market. Do you remember, before we were trapped in his nightmare, how he wore a black cloak that blocked all traces of light?”
Su Yingxue instantly felt a suppressive weight settle over her. “Such a dark soul—what’s the point of living for someone like him?”
“We wouldn’t understand. Only by hearing him speak can we know,” Chu Yihan replied, gesturing toward the iron lock on the prison door.
Su Yingxue remembered how they had been ensnared within a nightmare, unable to wake up, and a trace of lingering fear crept into her heart.
But Chu Yihan’s hand held hers firmly, his warmth passing through her skin, giving her strength and dispelling the icy chill surrounding her.
Su Yingxue smiled faintly and stepped forward with him to unlock the door and walk inside.
The underground cavern was even darker and colder than they had expected. As Su Yingxue entered, she couldn’t help but rub her arms for warmth.
The chilling wind from every direction clawed hungrily at her skin.
Standing behind her, Chu Yihan embraced her, stabilizing her with his presence. She took hold of his hand and struck the flint to light the torch.
With a faint flicker of firelight, they could finally see the figure chained inside the cavern.
Seated cross-legged, his body no longer emitted a strong stench of blood, likely subdued by the dampness that permeated the cave.
The Demon Eyes possessed extraordinarily keen hearing—he had detected the sound of the cavern entrance opening long before they even approached. However, this time, the footsteps weren’t those of someone coming to torture him. These footsteps were different.
One man, one woman—and neither carried the suffocating aura of malice.
He quickly deduced that it must be Chu Yihan and his wife.
And yet, he doubted—how could the two of them possibly have awakened from the nightmare realm?
“Demon Eyes,” Chu Yihan’s magnetic voice reached out to him.
The Demon Eyes furrowed his brows tightly, his voice hoarse and gravelly, “You… have awakened?”
Su Yingxue replied loudly, “Yes, we’ve awakened. Are you surprised?”
“Indeed,”
The disbelief in the Demon Eyes’ voice was blatant. “How could it be possible to awaken?”
“Waking up without your permission—surely that’s not something you can blame us for.” Su Yingxue’s tone carried the pride of a victor.
She thought she might provoke him into revealing a way to awaken someone, a method to save Zi Wei.
But the Demon Eyes remained silent for a long time, leaving Su Yingxue confused. As the silence stretched on, Chu Yihan asked him directly, “You don’t know how to dispel a nightmare, do you?”
The Demon Eyes let out a dry laugh, “Heh!”
The faint tone of youth in his voice, even as it was ground down by hoarseness, carried a trace of lightness.
“Do you truly not know?”
Su Yingxue gasped in shock, “You sought out Chu Yifeng years ago, begging for a way to survive, but you didn’t know how to dispel the nightmare realm, so Chu Yifeng imprisoned you! You…” she trailed off.
“Your people—did they never teach you how to dispel nightmares?” Chu Yihan’s brows knit in thought.
He remembered the old texts that mentioned the Eye Clan—secretive people who lived underground, never revealing themselves lightly. For centuries, no one had seen members of this clan anymore, and many believed them to be extinct.
“Or maybe…” the Demon Eyes chuckled lowly, the sound sharp and chilling like shards of glass scattering on a polished floor, “maybe there never was a way to dispel nightmares in the first place.”
Chu Yihan and Su Yingxue’s mission was, it seemed, a failure.
They sought out Chu Yifeng for further counsel. Chu Yifeng recalled how, years ago, the Demon Eyes had come to him—a child barely ten years old, yet now ten years later, he was still barely twenty, with a voice still tinged by youthful clarity.
By their speculations, the Demon Eyes had been cast out by his own kind. He had fled, hoping to use his gaze to serve Chu Yifeng in exchange for a place of refuge within the ghostly market.
But back then, the Demon Eyes, still just a boy, had no understanding of how to wield the power of his eyes or how to remove the nightmares they created.
Now…
Years of imprisonment had honed his eyes’ power, yet he still didn’t know how to break free from the dream realm.
“Then what about Zi Wei?”
Su Yingxue cried out in desperation.
Yue Lian had nearly cried herself blind. She had been keeping Zi Wei alive with acupuncture, but this was only delaying the inevitable. His body wouldn’t last much longer!
What could she possibly do to wake him?
Chu Yifeng, unconcerned with others’ fates, had no solutions. Left Qingqing, too, had expressed curiosity about the ghostly market, so Chu Yifeng took her there to satiate her.
Su Yingxue sat beside Chu Yihan, her eyes red-rimmed with guilt. “If it weren’t for Zi Wei’s loyalty to me, this wouldn’t have happened… He has a wife and daughter. He should have been living a peaceful and happy life.”
“If he were happy and at peace, do you think he would ever have shown up before you again?” Chu Yihan gripped her hand, soothing her with his low voice. “Happiness is something measured differently by everyone. How can you say for sure that he isn’t happy, even while immersed in the nightmare?”
Chu Yihan knew how much Zi Wei meant to Su Yingxue, and he, too, would find a way to save this man for her sake.
Su Yingxue lifted her tearful eyes, clasping both hands around his. Pressing them to her lips, she seemed frail and weak. “I don’t know what he’s seeing in the nightmare. I just want him to come back to reality!
The dream we endured was so bizarre. If we hadn’t kept holding on, we would’ve been trapped in it, unable to wake.”
Chu Yihan nodded in agreement, the reasoning sound.
Even within the dream, when all memories were wiped away, they had never once given up on each other.
The deep love they shared had carried them to the very end, cutting through the blood-soaked surrealism of the dream until they awoke.
“What if someone could enter the dream to save Zi Wei…?”
Chu Yihan’s thought trailed off. “You and I woke up because, even in the dream, our love never wavered. It became our salvation. If someone could enter Zi Wei’s dream the same way…”
Like them, wouldn’t that person also have a chance to wake Zi Wei?
“Someone entering the dream to save Zi Wei?”
Su Yingxue’s voice rose in excitement, drawing Yue Lian over just in time to catch those words. She burst into the room, clinging tightly to Su Yingxue’s arm. “Is it true, Your Majesty? If someone enters the dream to save my husband, he can wake up?”
“Don’t get too excited. It’s just my speculation,” Chu Yihan replied calmly, gesturing for her to sit and listen first.