Chapter 36: The Storm is Brewing (Please recommend and bookmark!)

Consciousness is like a feather, floating on the serene surface of a lake.

The lake surface, mirror-like and undisturbed, Li Xu is in between sleep and wakefulness, lucid yet drowsy, observing for the first time from this transcendent point of view the emotions, desires, fragments of memory, and more that settle in the Sea of Consciousness.

Emotions are like colorful plankton blending with the lake, ubiquitous, providing rich colors and nutrients to the water, forming an indispensable foundation of the "food chain."

Desires are like schools of fish swimming in the lake, some solitary, some clustered, some leisurely like a stroll in a garden, while others flash by like lightning... Stirring up the lakebed, they occasionally bring up shadows, sand, dust, bubbles, and so on, carrying fragments of memory that rise from the lakebed, twinkling with scenes long forgotten by Li Xu...