She sleeps through other people's lives—until one man steps out of a door in her dream and looks right at her. Lin Ran is a kindergarten teacher whose dreams used to be harmless movie-like windows into strangers' lives. Lately the doors have color, the scenes have purpose, and a calm, impossibly handsome executive keeps showing up asking for a storyteller to help him sleep. He calls her by a pet name she never said aloud. He calls her "Ge'er." When medicine, doctors and rational explanations fail, Lin chooses to stop hiding and to follow the dream. Every visit peels back a secret: a blue door becomes pink, a child at her kindergarten has the same eyes, and a man who should be unreachable is waiting—patient, vulnerable, dangerous to love. This is a slow-burn, dream-crossed romance with a real-world risk that could collapse both worlds. She will learn why he can't sleep—and she will discover whether a promise whispered in dreams can be kept in daylight.

16 Chapters