Chapter 1

Night. The Film City was enveloped in silence, devoid of any hustle and bustle of daytime shootings.

The surrounding hotels lit with dazzling lights were full of vitality. In the suite on the top floor, the guest had already fallen asleep, leaving only a dim yellow night lamp.

Du Yan bent down and gazed at the man lying on the bed.

The man’s features were profound. From the arc of his brow to the corner of his mouth, there was nothing unpleasant to the eye. The man didn’t have the ‘flower boy’ aesthetics which were popular these days but possessed a kind of omnipotent beauty full of male charm.

The taste is also good.

The face in front of him could attract thousands of the opposite sex, but Du Yan had no other ideas. Food came first. He appeared here just to satisfy his appetite.

“What are you still staring at? Hurry up and eat.” From Du Yan’s shoulder, a tender voice sounded out of thin air.

Du yan raised his hand and flicked his finger on his shoulder, “You are more anxious than me.”

As he moved, a white hairy ball emerged. It looked similar to a huge dandelion.

The hairball rolled in the air and two black eyes became visible, “You haven’t eaten for several days, and my energy is insufficient. If you keep delaying, the spell will wear out.”

Looking at Du Yan’s smiling eyes, the furball blinked and continued, “If the spell fails and the person wakes up, you’ll be fired on the first day of your job.”

While hearing this Du Yan felt a sense of crisis. After all, in order to become Shao Lingheng’s assistant, he spent a lot of time and effort. However, he had always been able to get along well with the furball named Xiao Ba.

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Du Yan glanced at him and asked, “You call yourself a big demon. Can’t you even maintain such a small spell?”

The furball was shot “I…um…you know I’m just a sub body of the big demon dandelion. Your plane is such a low-level energy plane, it is too far away from the main body. Other than relying on you, I have no other way to get energy.”

“…” Du Yan was speechless. So it was all his fault, eh? He was also helpless. Even though his bloodline was good, it was simply useless. He had to rely on this furball in front of him.

As for the introduction,

Furball, Race: Demon. Big demon dandelion body no.89, nicknamed Xiaoba.

Du Yan, Race – Human (earthling with the blood of holy beast Boqi)

Boqi, the powerful ancient beast, feeds on nightmares. It is considered an auspicious beast.

However, for Du Yan, as a resident of a low-level plane, awakening his bloodline provides no benefits and he cannot feel satisfied through normal food.

For the first eighteen years of his life, Du Yan was an ordinary young man. There was nothing special about him other than his extraordinary good looks. He planned to pass his 18th birthday as usual. However, a normal day turned ridiculous.

As soon as he woke up that morning, Du Yan felt extremely hungry. He was so hungry, it felt like his stomach was burning. After he had his breakfast, Du Yan realized that something was amiss.

He felt hungry even though he ate till his stomach bulged and food overflowed from his throat. He felt very hungry. But this hunger wasn’t physical, it came from the depth of his heart.

This hunger tormented Du Yan for seven days. Just as he was about to go mad from hunger, Xiao Ba appeared.

This furball, which claimed to be a big demon, informed Du Yan that all the strange things which happened to him were the result of awakening his bloodline.

Of course, as a modern young man who had received 18 years of materialistic education, Du Yan would never believe in such absurd things. However, after personally going through a series of events, he had to accept it as facts. Since then Du Yan’s life has changed from staying at home to wandering around for food.

“What are you doing? Don’t you know how to eat when a whole meal is in front of your eyes?” Xiaoba’s voice pulled back Du Yan from his memories. Eating was the priority now, not reminiscing about the past.

Again, Shao Lingheng, of the human race, is the most delicious dish for Du Yan.

Ordinary people’s nightmares rarely have a complete world and plotlines, most of them are fragmented nightmares without any logic. For Du Yan, such nightmares are mere snacks. They can satisfy him but can’t alleviate his hunger.

During his late-night foraging, Du Yan rarely encounters an almost complete nightmare, which can be considered dinner, enough to make him feel satisfied and full. However, there were few such complete nightmares. Du Yan, who went hungry for a long time, accidentally came across Shao Lingheng one day.

After seeing Shao Lingheng for the first time, Du Yan was stunned. Not because he looked better in person than on-screen, but because of the nightmare scent emanating from him.

Shao Lingheng’s nightmare was different from other people’s, his nightmare was a complete world. This kind of nightmare with a complete world view can satisfy Du Yan’s hunger for a month.

Such a precious nightmare, Du Yan did not immediately swallow it. He had to master the perfect technique to cook it properly. So he could only reluctantly leave.

Shao Lingheng had come to Du Yan’s hometown to film. During Shao Lingheng’s two months there, Du Yan managed to find a job in the hotel he stayed in.

When Shao Lingheng had nightmares, he would appear in the room to study those nightmares.

All dreams have their origins, especially recurring nightmares, and Shao Lingheng’s is no exception. His nightmares came from the movies he made and it formed complete dream worlds based on the plot of those movies.

Du Yan calculated carefully. According to the frequency of Shao Lingheng’s nightmares, as long as he followed this man, he would no longer have to run around every night, just to fill in his stomach.

After Du Yan got to know the source of Shao Lingheng’s nightmare, he left the hotel and spent a few months gaining a lot of experience on how to process nightmares and maximize their energy without harming the dreamer.

After that, Du Yan spent a few more months applying to become Shao Lingheng’s assistant.

Today was Du Yan’s first day on duty.

It took him nearly a year to taste this delicious food in front of him. Du Yan could not bear it any longer.

He went to the bedside, stretched out his fingers and gently touched Shao Lingheng’s forehead.

“Into the dream.”

Du Yan floated in the air and gazed down at the Lord of Dreams. He had to evaluate the details of the dream before he could change the plot.

Based on last year’s study and research, Du Yan knew that in order to eat a nightmare perfectly, he must let all kinds of negative emotions in the nightmare disappear.

Fragmented nightmares could be eaten directly without any adverse effect on the dreamers. Nightmares with a complete world view and plot line were different. The plot that produced negative emotions must be eliminated before the nightmare dissipates into energy that can be consumed.

Simply put, the dream lord’s obsession must disappear, and the defects in the plotline should be filled. Then the nightmare will escape in the form of energy and Du Yan would be able to fill his stomach.

If the nightmare is forcibly devoured, it will cause damage to the brain of the dream lord. If this happens often, the dream lord will lose his mind and become a living corpse.

This is another reason for Xiao Ba’s existence. The dandelion demon is the servant of Boqi. Boqi is a divine beast, so naturally, he would not let his own blood harm humans.

By every awakened Boqi blood’s side, there would be an existence similar to that of Big Demon Dandelion. In addition to their role as mentors, they would also act as supervisors to prevent these bloodline inheritors from harming ordinary people in order to satisfy their appetites.

The protagonist of this dream was a young boy with a tender face.

The boy looked only fifteen or sixteen years old, but he was very tall, with some rebellious temperament in his eyes.

Due to his age he was not very strong. But between the fight, one could clearly see the smooth contour of his muscles hidden under his clothes. He resembled a brave little leopard, full of wild beauty.

The fight below was nearing its end. There were only a few people on the teenager’s side, but they completely crushed their opponents, gaining a huge advantage.

In accordance with the normal procedure, both sides began to speak out loudly.

A young punk, who was trampled upon, raised his head with difficulty and said, “He Jin, don’t be proud. I’ll deal with you later.”

The teenager just sneered, too lazy to look at the defeated. He rubbed the soles of his shoes against the hoodlum’s clothes and left.

Du Yan’s attention shifted when he heard the name “He Jin.”

It turned out to be He Jin! Du Yan who had caught up with Shao Lingheng’s various works immediately retrieved the plot of the movie from his memory.

He Jin is a character from Shao Lingheng’s movie, for which he won the best newcomer award – “The Girl I Loved that Summer ”.

This movie was a youth tragedy, especially depressing.

In the summer vacation after He Jin graduated from junior high school, he happened to save a girl from several small gangsters. Later, during the high school opening ceremony, he saw the girl named Fang Xiangxiang giving a speech on stage.

Teenagers’ hearts always beat faster on such occasions. He Jin was no exception.

From then on, He Jin, who was rebellious in the school and didn’t pay attention to anyone, had her in his mind. For the girl in his heart, He Jin did many silly things. Just so she would look at him.

Come to think of it, she was the kind of girl everyone liked. Pure and kind, had excellent grades, could dance and play the piano. She was simply the goddess of their high school.

However, Fang’s character was afraid of the rebellious bad students like He Jin. Under Fang’s evasion, He Jin decided to change himself.

For the first time, He Jin, for a girl, was willing to do things he never even thought of doing.

After the end of the college entrance examination, Fang would go to college. Although He Jin began to work hard in the third year of senior high school, his foundation was too poor to attend the same university as Fang Xiangxiang.

In order to impress Fang Xiangxiang, He Jin chose to repeat and fulfilled his promise one year later, becoming Fang’s junior. Fang Xiangxiang wanted to see the boy who had been reborn because of her and was finally moved.

If the story ended here, it would be an idol drama showcasing a sweet love story. However, this was a youth tragedy.

He Jin discovered that Fang’s father was the one whose drunk driving had killed his parents. After this revelation, He Jin suffered a huge blow and was unable to face Fang Xiangxiang. So he chose to escape.

He Jin’s heart was filled with hatred and love. In order to escape his pain, He Jin strayed into a bar. After getting drunk he had an accidental one night stand with a female schoolmate who had a crush on him.

Fang discovered He Jin’s betrayal, to make matters worse she was pregnant.

Fang Xiang believed that she was a girl who was soft but tough. She went to the hospital alone and had an abortion. Then she resolutely broke up with He Jin.

He Jin couldn’t face all of this, so he chose to go far away.

A few years later, He Jin dreamed about his first love in high school. Those intense emotions of youth were washed away by time. Only one thing remained unchanged – his love for that girl.

He Jin, who had become mature, decided to put down the things between their parents and return to China to find her.

In the familiar city, he saw the familiar but unfamiliar Fang Xiang. She was still a beautiful and pure girl. Both of them talked about the past and decided to let go. Fang Xiang smiled and forgave He Jin.

However, when hope rose in He Jin’s heart, Fang Xiang handed him a wedding invitation. The bride was Fang Xiang, but the groom’s name was unfamiliar to him.

The film ended with Fang’s wedding. He Jin went, but hid in a corner and watched the only girl he ever loved, dressed in a beautiful white dress getting married to another man. He had no right to participate in her life ever since.

“According to the analysis of the database, the cause of the nightmare should be guilt and regret.”

Xiao Ba’s function, if compared with modern things, is probably equivalent to a computer, and his main body, the big dandelion, is the super server of the demon world. Du Yan can store data or query data through Xiao Ba.

“I just inquired about the case in our database and saw several similar plots. The best strategies can be divided into two categories: either act as direct replacements for Fang Xiang or as an original character. How about a childhood friend? In short, prevent the tragedy by solving the issues between He Jin and Fang Xiang or let He Jin have another love.”

Xiao Ba paused, “Fang Xiang is a woman, I think an original character is more suitable for you. If you become He Jin’s good brother, you can prevent him from making mistakes.”

“No, I want to be his father.”

“What? What!!!” Xiao Ba was terrified.

Du Yan asked, “Do you know why there are always subplots like derailment, pregnancy, and abortion in these teenage tragedies?”

Xiao Ba replied hesitantly, “Is it in order to abuse the heart, and make people feel that youth is full of pain and regrets?”

Du Yan felt very distressed, “This is because the parents didn’t educate their children properly ah! There is no moral integrity, so children will derail outside. Adolescent sex education was not up to standard, that means lack of proper protective measures. This will lead to pregnancy and abortion at any turn!”

Although Xiao Ba was just a dandelion without proper features, he felt his face turning stiff. All the split bodies share the ontological database, so Xiao Ba has access to everything. Among all the inheritors of the gods and beasts, Du Yan’s brain circuit was really the most strange.

Du Yan didn’t realize Xiao Ba’s thoughts, and continued, “So I want to be his father, starting with his thoughts and adolescence education, and prevent tragedies from happening early on.”

Xiao Ba helplessly tried to stop him, “In the plot setting, his parents died in a car accident, which can not be changed. If the set identity is too unreliable, it will make the dreamer realize that something is wrong and wake him up. So the dream will collapse. “

“Then the guardian.” Du Yan still insisted on being He Jin’s elder, “only a guardian can educate this bear child well, including his adolescent sex education.”

It was only on this occasion, Du Yan’s bloodline could play a role. The dream world is the home of the Dream Lord. So after entering the dream, Du Yan could only make some changes within the scope of the rules.

In a flash, Du Yan had described the entire background of the identity he needed. Then, he saw his hands shaking, and the ball of light in his hand fell into the dream world below.

“Let’s start.”