Chapter 64

"......"

I stared blankly at the catastrophe laid out before me.

It was a lie.

It’s nearly impossible to tell dreams from reality. There’s that famous idiom about Zhuangzi dreaming he was a butterfly, isn’t there?

I must have become a butterfly.

At some point, I must have fallen asleep and started having a horrible nightmare. That’s all.

If I stretched my cheek and felt no pain, I’d realize this was a dream.

Thinking that, I stretched my cheek.

"Aah..."

It hurt. The pressure of my cheek pressed against my teeth released with a pop...