Chapter 184: Thousand Pieces of Gold in the Hanging Hall

Chu Yu suddenly woke in the middle of the night, her face wet with tears.

She had a very sad dream, in which she desperately chased after her distant family, but no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't catch up to them. Surrounded by the long-missed skyscrapers, the city's severe air pollution seemed irrelevant; after all, it was the place of her birth and upbringing. No matter how much fresher the ancient era might have been, she still longed for that polluted air.

As her family vanished into the distance, the surrounding scenery faded too, eventually transforming into boundless darkness that swallowed her whole.

Then she awoke.

Although the specifics of the dream were now blurred, only a fraction retained, that feeling of despair, forever out of reach, continued to linger in her heart, inescapable.