Love in a Dream Need Not Be Unreal—The World Is Not Short of Dreamers

(A record of a wonderful dream.)

In the story, it is 21st-century society. Far away, in a world a thousand years later, technology is highly advanced. Many people like to play a “message-in-a-bottle” game: they encapsulate a stretch of memory in a time capsule, then toss it into a time tunnel and let it drift. The heroine’s “time capsule” happens to pass through the time tunnel and arrive a thousand years earlier—that is, in the home of the 21st-century hero. The hero happens to find the time capsule at home, but cannot open it. By chance, when he is in a bad mood, he holds the time capsule and stares blankly in silence; suddenly a hazy memory flashes through his mind. In this way the hero, without meaning to, opens the time capsule. It turns out the condition for opening it is to resonate with the psychological state of the time capsule’s owner.

A memory that has crossed a thousand years unfolds before the hero bit by bit. Everything about the heroine is branded deeply into his mind. The hero falls incurably infatuated with this person from a thousand years later. He does everything in his power to leave traces in the world, and his love for the heroine.

In that world a thousand years later, the heroine miraculously senses that a thousand years earlier there was such a young man who, after opening her time capsule, loved her so deeply. From the traces of the hero left behind in the time machine, the heroine little by little reconstructs his appearance and character, and in the process she too slowly falls in love with this person separated from her by a thousand years.

Their hearts are in perfect accord, yet a thousand years of time lie between them. In that highly advanced society a thousand years later, humanity has already developed the technology to travel through spacetime, but this is an act strictly forbidden by the world government, because spacetime travel would generate a huge spacetime vortex in the target world, severely disrupting that world’s normal social order, even causing mass casualties—this would already seriously alter the course of history. Thus, though the hero and heroine are hopelessly lovesick for each other, they cannot meet, cannot even speak a single word.

The heroine’s friend is an eccentric scientist. Moved by the spirit of the heroine and the hero, he decides to help her return to the hero’s world a thousand years earlier.

But traveling through spacetime would produce a huge spacetime vortex. If this problem is not solved, they cannot travel back, and the heroine is unwilling, out of her own selfishness, to cause the deaths of tens of thousands of innocent people.

This genius scientist cleverly solves the problem with a space missile he invented. When one travels through spacetime, spacetime is disturbed, producing a huge spacetime vortex; the principle of the space missile is to guide itself by exploiting the uneven nature of space, driven by a curvature engine; both its motion and its detonation alter the curvature of space. To test this new invention, and also to help the heroine, the scientist goes alone to the world of a thousand years earlier. To avoid creating a spacetime vortex, he takes the risk of going through a spacetime tunnel inside a black hole. Opening such a tunnel requires enormous energy and allows only one person through; it is extremely dangerous. The scientist spends all his savings before he can scrape together enough funds to obtain the energy needed to open the tunnel.

Perhaps it was heaven’s blessing: the scientist successfully returns to the world of a thousand years ago. Coming back through the black-hole tunnel, he has nothing, but he possesses extraordinary wisdom beyond his era. He soon finds a well-paying job, successfully finds the hero, and tells him where he comes from. The hero is very surprised, then overjoyed, because at last there is a chance to meet the girl he has longed for day and night.

While saving money, the scientist also gathers materials to build the spacetime missile. After more than a year of effort, he finally manufactures the spacetime missile and the time machine.

He starts the time machine and sets the coordinates to the heroine’s home. Spacetime travel begins. A huge spacetime vortex truly appears on Earth; in an instant, typhoons, hurricanes, and tornadoes break out all over the world, and the earth’s crust, affected by this, also begins to move violently. At the critical moment, the heroine passes through the spacetime vortex and arrives in this world, and the scientist fires the space missile at the spacetime vortex.

He succeeded!

The detonation of the space missile successfully stops the spacetime disturbance. Earth is calm again. The hero and heroine are meeting for the first time, yet they embrace and weep like lovers who have been apart for many years, unwilling to let go for a long time.

Yet such a huge spacetime disturbance also draws the attention of the interstellar spacetime police. Ever since spacetime-travel technology appeared, no one has successfully traveled through spacetime; only lifeless objects like the time capsule at the beginning have successfully crossed spacetime, and human spacetime travel is strictly forbidden. So the interstellar spacetime police consider the matter of grave importance and immediately open the great tunnel inside the black hole. The hero and heroine have barely met when large numbers of spacetime police pour out of the spacetime tunnel into the world of a thousand years earlier, ready to arrest the hero, the heroine, and the scientist.

Fortunately the scientist had kept a trick in reserve: after arriving in this world he built a powerful magnetic barrier, allowing them to temporarily evade the spacetime police’s pursuit—but this was never a lasting solution. In this temporary calm, the hero and heroine look into each other’s eyes, speechless, yet each understands the other’s heart. For this love that spans a thousand years, all of it is worth it……

(End)