Peach-Orange! – Chapter 512 – Dream Within a Dream Within a Dream

Dreams are magical.

It’s not that they develop exactly how you want them to.

Unrestrained, random, unrelated…

Maybe one second you are studying at school, the next second you dream that the world is infected by a zombie virus.

You are still fighting zombies, and in the blink of an eye, some goddess you saved begins a post-apocalyptic romance with you.

Then you’re about to kiss, about to confess, about to get to the indescribable part.

And then, you wake up.

That’s how dreams are; without specific influence, they are hard to control.

Even if Xiao Hei and the system intended to stuff the original trajectory of this world into the dream, making Su Tao experience her original story path exactly as it was.

But here, there is also the presence of another fellow.

…

This also led to when Su Tao woke up, she heard such a voice in her ear.

“You’re awake?”

When she opened her eyes on the familiar hospital bed, her first sensation was a burning pain on her face. She wanted to reach out but had no strength. One of her eyes was covered by something strap-like, making it difficult for Su Tao to see clearly.

The voice in her ear was familiar, but she couldn’t remember who it was.

Su Tao struggled to sit up but found she had no strength. “What’s going on? I… I just fell asleep. Why does my body feel so terrible? Do I have a fever?”

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Her head hurt badly.

Even her face hurt.

Then, another person’s voice came from beside her ear. That person ran out loudly, shouting, “Professor Su! Professor Su, come quickly! The patient is awake!”

Patient?

‘Who does that mean? Me?’

‘This voice… it’s that little nurse who often takes care of Xiaocheng, right?’

‘Could it be that after I fell asleep, I fell into a coma? A side effect of using the War God bloodline?’

Su Tao even felt her mind was buzzing, her memory of what happened before somewhat unclear.

Then, she saw Professor Su in a white coat come to her side, comforting her while performing a diagnosis.

At the same time, he explained what had happened before, telling her not to get too agitated.

After listening, Su Tao felt her brain couldn’t process it all at once.

‘I was in the basement, and Xiaocheng scratched up my face?’

‘And stabbed my chest?’

‘After emergency treatment, I almost died, but fortunately, I was in a coma for a week and woke up.’

‘Wait, wait!’

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Su Tao didn’t even hear what Professor Su said afterward, just painfully trying to recall what happened.

She was clearly going home with Xiaocheng, encountered an ambush by Ye Er, and after Xiaocheng was treated, she was so tired she couldn’t hold on anymore and fell asleep.

Why did it become like this!

The doctors and nurses finished their checks, seemingly confirming that Su Tao was still in a daze, and hurried off to prepare for other things.

Only then did Su Tao turn her head to the side and see the figure who had spoken first.

“This is… me?”

It was strange. The person before her looked exactly like her, wearing black casual clothes, with a very poor complexion, disheveled hair, and exuding a depressive dark aura all over.

Hei Tao showed a smile and said lightly, “I am you, but also not you. It seems this injury has really hit you hard. You’ve even forgotten me.”

“Wait!”

Su Tao struggled to raise her hand to her head. “What do you mean, I’ve forgotten you?”

Hei Tao sat cross-legged on a chair. “Still have mild amnesia. It seems you hit your head when struggling and resisting.”

She continued saying things Su Tao didn’t understand until the confusion on the girl’s face was about to overflow, then introduced herself.

“I am your second personality. Usually, we always communicate in this state: you on the surface, me in the inner world. Only you can see me and talk to me. Others can’t see me. I am a reflection of your mental level.

“Now, about your current situation, I’ll only say it once. Listen carefully.”

Su Tao endured the pain in her head and nodded hard.

Hei Tao said, “You, a week ago, had a quarrel with Chi Xiaocheng. She tied you up in the basement, cut your face with a knife, and stabbed your chest, wanting to kill you. But fortunately, you struggled and made her slip up.

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“You also hit your head while struggling and fell into a coma.

“But luckily, Ye Liang arrived in time and saved you.

“However, due to your injuries, you were still in a coma for a week. Now you’ve just woken up. The doctors aren’t sure about your condition exactly, but from talking… I think you probably hit your head and lost some memories.”

Listening to this person who looked exactly like her, memories gradually surfaced in Su Tao’s mind.

During summer vacation, she and Xiaocheng started arguing.

Ye Liang and Dongfang Yang both had good relationships with her, and Xiaocheng developed a crush on these two. Out of jealousy, she always opposed Su Tao.

Unable to bear it any longer, Xiaocheng drugged Su Tao, knocking her out, and finally tied her up in the basement.

Then, tried to kill her with a knife?

She seemed to have an impression of this scene, but what exactly happened in the basement, Su Tao couldn’t remember.

She held her painful head, took a moment to recover, then said to Hei Tao, “This isn’t right. My relationship with Xiaocheng is clearly mutual liking. I love her, and she loves me. Just earlier, we went through a dangerous situation together.

“She likes me so much, how could she hurt me, even target me because of Ye Liang and Dongfang Yang?

“Right, Ye Liang… Ye Liang is already dead!”

Su Tao’s tone was very firm, her eyebrows tightly furrowed. She stared suspiciously at Hei Tao. Although this person looked like her, her voice was completely different.

She didn’t feel much, but the tone was easy to discern. She even felt she had heard it somewhere before and it left a deep impression, but just couldn’t remember.

Hei Tao obviously didn’t expect Su Tao to speak so firmly.

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Quickly picking up the conversation, she said in a thoughtful tone, “What you said, it should all be a dream you had, right?”

“A dream?”

Su Tao’s tone became doubtful again. “If it’s a dream, could it feel so real?”

Hei Tao explained, “You were in a coma for five days after all. Dreams are something that can’t be explained. Some people only sleep for one night but live a whole lifetime in their dream.

“You clearly have amnesia issues and then mistook the dream for reality.”

Hei Tao spoke with conviction, but Su Tao still felt something was wrong.

If it was a dream, could she really remember it so clearly?

Not just the moment Xiaocheng took the bullet for her, but even all the things that happened afterward while she was accompanying Xiaocheng in the hospital, she remembered everything clearly.

In the end, she was so tired she fell asleep.

She suddenly thought of a possibility.

Staring straight at Hei Tao, she said, “The me right now, is the one dreaming, right?”

Hei Tao was stunned again, her expression even looking a bit silly.

But she quickly reacted. “You actually realized that!”

Then, her expression turned serious. “That’s right, this is a dream. But what you just said about Chi Xiaocheng is also a dream. The you right now…

“Is experiencing a dream within a dream within a dream!”