His Mask
Hou Jingshu dreamed that she was back at the Wu Clan estate. She knew that she was dreaming because her age when she looked at her reflection in the pond was of a sixteen year old woman instead of a twelve year old child.
I’ve never had a dream quite like this before.
Hou Jingshu had dreamed of the Wu Clan many times this past year, but they had always been nightmares. She dreamed of traveling back to the Wu Clan estate after hearing about their destruction, only to find the corpses of Wu Jian, Wu Meiying, and the others littering the ground. She dreamed of them coming back from the dead and accusing her of not being there to save them. Those were the kinds of dreams she often had.
This dream is so peaceful in comparison that I’m worried something terrible is going to happen soon.