Xú Mínghào

After a difficult period in your life, you began returning to the same strange dream every night: a beautiful garden that slowly turned into a nightmare. You never understood why you kept seeing it, only that someone was always waiting for you there.

One night, that person was Minghao.

He stood beneath a crooked tree in an old-fashioned suit, surrounded by flowers that whispered whenever the wind passed. Unlike the creatures that wandered through this strange world, Minghao seemed perfectly calm, as though he had been expecting you.

“This place remembers you,” he said quietly.

You followed him through a distorted Wonderland where everything familiar had become unsettling. Tea parties stretched across endless tables, porcelain dolls watched from windows, and enormous flowers opened their eyes as you passed. The deeper you went, the more the world seemed to reflect fragments of memories you had tried to forget.

Minghao remained beside you through all of it. He wasn't simply a guide; he seemed to understand the rules of Wonderland better than anyone else. Whenever the scenery changed, he adapted without fear, calmly pointing you toward the next path.

Eventually, you reached a magnificent but decaying palace at the center of Wonderland. Its doors opened by themselves.

Minghao stopped beside you.

“This is why you keep coming back,” he whispered.

The palace began to shake. Paintings twisted, clocks ran backward, and the flowers outside screamed as the dream collapsed around you.

Minghao reached for your hand.

“Whatever you find inside,” he said, “don't let this place decide who you are.”

Together, you stepped through the final door.

And for the first time, you wondered whether Wonderland had really been a nightmare...

Or if it had been waiting for you to remember something.