Sharing Dreams with My Bestie’s Cousin
Chapter 195 - 195 Enter Dreams Peering into Dreams

Chapter 195: Enter Dreams, Peering into Dreams Chapter 195: Enter Dreams, Peering into Dreams Chong Wanyin would rather believe that her eyes were playing tricks on her than believe that Zhao Qin had actually fallen asleep.

She quickly reached out to shake Zhao Qin, “Zhao Qin? Zhao Qin, how could you fall asleep?”

“Zhao Qin?”

“Zhao Qin, wake up…”

Just after Chong Wanyin called out several times, Wen Zhi’s voice came from the front, “Madam, there’s no use shouting. Aunt Qin won’t wake up for a while.”

Chong Wanyin, holding her forehead, raised her eyes to look at Wen Zhi, who was driving in front, and asked, “Zhizhi, what’s wrong with your Aunt Qin?”

Wen Zhi glanced at Chong Wanyin through the rear-view mirror and replied with a light tone, “Aunt Qin probably didn’t sleep well last night. She’s feeling sleepy now, just let her have a good rest.”

“That’s impossible. No matter how sleepy Zhao Qin is, she wouldn’t fail to wake up when I call her…” Chong Wanyin suddenly furrowed her brows and raised her hand to her nose, “Zhizhi, do you smell anything?”

Wen Zhi asked, “What kind of smell?”

Chong Wanyin’s eyelids were getting heavier, and she barely had the energy to speak, “Calming incense, it’s the scent of my calming incense.”

“Madam, did you bring calming incense with you today?” Wen Zhi inquired.

“No…”

“Then it must be your imagination, I haven’t smelled the calming incense you’re talking about.”

As soon as she finished speaking, Wen Zhi heard Chong Wanyin’s sharp voice interrogating her, “Wen Zhi, what exactly have you done?”

Wen Zhi slowly braked to slow down, then found the time to glance back at Chong Wanyin, who was full of panic, “Madam, you don’t think that Aunt Qin’s sleep is due to something I’ve done, do you?”

“I…” Chong Wanyin was too weak to refute, her head felt even more muddled than before, and her eyelids were getting increasingly heavy.

As Wen Zhi steadily drove the car, she didn’t forget to reassure Chong Wanyin, “Madam, don’t overthink it. You’re just too tired and need to rest for a while. Have a good sleep, and when you wake up, we’ll be there.”

“No, I can’t sleep now…”

“Wen Zhi, stop the car, stop the car do you hear me, I’m telling you to stop the car…”

“I can’t sleep, I can’t…”

At this moment, Chong Wanyin’s voice went from loud and adamant to weaker and weaker, until she could no longer make a sound, her eyelids drooped, and she fell deep into sleep.

Wen Zhi knew that the effects of the soaking in calming incense had taken hold.

As she had taken another kind of medicine beforehand, she was unaffected by the calming incense.

Now that both people in the back seat were motionless, Wen Zhi drove steadily for a while before finding a place to pull over and stop the car.

After getting off the car, Wen Zhi looked at her wristwatch.

It was just a few minutes to eleven.

It seemed that she needed to hurry up. Every minute’s delay was a risk.

She was not sure if the people she had hired had arrived.

Getting out of the car, Wen Zhi pulled the unconscious Zhao Qin out of the car and laid her by the roadside. Zhao Qin was completely unconscious now, and it took Wen Zhi a lot of effort to pull her out of the car. Having done this, Wen Zhi felt exhausted. She checked the time again and then crouched down to tidy up Zhao Qin’s clothes.

“Aunt Qin, have a good sleep. By the time you wake up, all this will be over.”

After saying this, Wen Zhi turned around, got back into the car, and continued towards the final destination with the unconscious Chong Wanyin.

She drove for nearly ten more minutes.

In the end, the car stopped at a desolate mountaintop.

For several miles around, there was hardly any sign of human habitation, only signal towers visible everywhere, spaced one after another. From the high vantage point, the road they had come on was almost out of sight.

Wen Zhi was in a good mood. After taking in the view, she turned and walked to the car door, stretching out her hand to open it and saying, “Madam, we’ve arrived.”

However, there was no responding voice.

Chong Wanyin was currently in an unconscious state.

Wen Zhi had deliberately worn a trench coat with a belt when she left the house, and now she took out two strings of Buddha Beads from the coat’s pocket. At first glance, they appeared nearly identical, even the ghost face patterns on the beads were almost indistinguishable.

But only Wen Zhi could discern clearly which string she should wear and which one she should give to someone else to enter their dreams.

After putting on her own string, she then placed the other string on the wrist of the sleeping Chong Wanyin.

After finishing those tasks, Wen Zhi slowly returned to the driver’s seat.

Her hired help had sent a message; they were ready and would not let Chong Wanyin’s people find them so quickly.

She could temporarily focus on what she wanted to do.

She took out the calming incense from under the seat and placed it back beside Chong Wanyin to ensure she would not wake up suddenly.

Finally, she pressed the button to raise the car window a little more and opened the sunroof slightly, then took out her phone to set a timer.

“Mom, the moment has finally come, I can finally…” Wen Zhi’s hand holding the phone trembled slightly.

Only she knew how hard it had been to get to this moment.

But the path of avenging her mother was her own choice; once the bow was drawn, there was no turning back.

Now, she had no way out!

She raised her hand to touch the Buddha Beads on her wrist, took a deep breath for a moment, then leaned against the car door, sat down, and closed her eyes.

Perhaps due to extreme nervousness or the influence of her surroundings, when Wen Zhi closed her eyes, her senses amplified several times, with every sound around her becoming clearer than usual.

The sound of her heart beating, faster with each beat.

At this time, her brain was more alert than ever.

Wen Zhi knew it would be difficult to fall asleep; she hadn’t expected it to be this difficult, considering she hadn’t slept at all the previous night to ensure today went smoothly.

But time was limited, and she had to enter Chong Wanyin’s dreams as quickly as possible.

As time ticked away slowly…

Wen Zhi gradually relaxed her body and mind, and her conscious awareness became increasingly muddled, but she still couldn’t enter her dreams. There was nothing but a pitch-black hole in that dormant consciousness, seeming to drag her into an abyss.

‘Drip drip drip’

‘Drip drip drip drip…’

The phone alarm let out a rapid series of beeps, and Wen Zhi suddenly woke up, picked up the phone, and saw that less than fifteen minutes had passed.

She quickly stood up to check on Chong Wanyin inside the car, who was still unconscious and showed no sign of waking up.

“Why…”

“Why can’t I enter the dream, why why why…”

Wen Zhi, as if losing her sanity, abruptly opened the car door. She removed the Buddha Beads from Chong Wanyin’s wrist, swapped them with her own, then closed the car door and prepared to try again.

But this time, no matter what, Wen Zhi could not fall asleep peacefully.

She was too agitated.

Her heart simply couldn’t calm down.

After trying several times, Wen Zhi gave up on spying into Chong Wanyin’s dreams. She opened the car door, grabbed Chong Wanyin’s collar forcefully, and shook her: “Chong Wanyin! Chong Wanyin!”

Chong Wanyin woke up from the shaking.

But because she had inhaled too much of the calming incense soaked in medicinal fluid, even after waking up, her body was like a spent force, incapable of mustering any strength.

“Awake? Do you recognize who I am?” Wen Zhi asked, word by word.

Upon waking, Chong Wanyin was calmer and more composed than Wen Zhi had expected. She asked, “Where’s Zhao Qin?”

Wen Zhi: “Left by the wayside.”

Chong Wanyin’s voice sharpened a bit: “Left?”

Wen Zhi nodded without expression.

Chong Wanyin tried to adjust her sitting position but didn’t have the strength to do so. She noticed the calming incense nearby and quickly understood what was going on.

There was something wrong with the calming incense.

Or rather, it was no longer the calming incense she originally had.

Chong Wanyin composed herself and said word for word, “Auntie Qin was so good to you, and you just left her by the side of the road like that. Wen Zhi, have you no conscience at all?”