That Thief in My Dream

Last night into the dream, Yu Luoyang in a drowsy sleep experienced a heart-stopping chase, woke up with a start surrounded by silence, only the sound of his wife's steady breathing from the darkness. He looked down at his wife, who was sleeping beside him, and put his ear to her chest, listening to the sound of her heart beating in her chest, and gradually calmed down.

His wife is five years younger than him and grew up in a loving environment. The confidence, sunshine and heartfelt belief in and love of all things good that she displayed at first sight attracted Yu Luoyang and made him take the initiative to approach her. Because these are how he can not imitate.

Although Yu Luoyang does not have the most beautiful face, but also consider themselves quite elegant. His words and actions have a full gentlemanly demeanor, people always use "elegant", "modest" to describe him, but no one knows that it took him several years to carefully accumulate confidence. And it is like a pyramid built of playing cards, almost fragile. Outside things, even someone else's dog barking at him a few more times, may make him fall into deep self-doubt.

So when the world of light gave him countless disappointments and blows, he developed the habit of sleeping one day and dreaming the next.

He drifted in and out of other people's dreams, and in other people's dreams he prepared for the great wave that would come in the morning. When the fear of waking woke him from his dream, he opened his melancholy eyes, lying flat on all fours, hands clenched in fists, clutching the fragments of his dream stolen from the dreams of others.

Although he became more and more reticent, the women continued to be attracted to him. So before he met his wife, he was never short of women. Yet for many years no woman managed to enter his heart.

He changed his female companions frequently and whenever he had sex with them, he would ask them why they loved him. He couldn't say what he longed to hear in reply, and probably he had no hope of any reply. So when the women finished answering, he would pretend to kiss them carelessly, attack their dreams while they were asleep, leave before they woke up, and then never see each other again.

Over time, rumors spread, and the angry and abandoned women falsely claimed that Yu Luoyang was a homosexual; men, out of jealousy, privately branded him with various stigmas such as "venereal disease sufferer". Yu Luoyang does not respond to all this, but only spies on the dreams of the women who show him love more and more frequently at night, asking them repeatedly before and after they go to sleep why they love him.

Among the women's various answers, his wife's was the only one that touched his heart.

"I love you because you deserve to be loved by me."

The woman who had been with him for two months and was now lying in her arms replied with the shyness of a young girl.

Yu Luoyang did not know how much of this answer was a joke and how much was genuine, but it made him toss and turn for several nights afterwards.

That night, he did not enter the woman's dream world as usual, but rarely beside her to usher in the morning sunshine with her.

A few days later, the golden bachelor declared for the first time to the public that he was married.

After they were officially together, his kind wife would often express her love to him without reservation, and he always smiled, but never believed it.

"Maybe she is a veteran of love affairs and deliberately trapped herself with sweet words", "She may also be just a passing fancy, and before long, she will leave herself out of boredom" - ...... Even after the marriage, Yu Luoyang has told himself this in his heart more than once. He loves his wife, but deep down he is convinced that the other side will leave him one day. So every morning when he opened his eyes, he was prepared for his wife to leave.

His personality became more and more erratic, and his attitude towards his wife was sometimes cold and sometimes hot. As the days passed, his doubts and anxieties deepened, and now he was on the verge of collapse.

"Do I really deserve to be loved?"

Last night he finally couldn't stand it anymore and entered his wife's dream for the first time in his life. Disguised as an old man in rags, he sent a desperate question to his wife, who was walking from the edge of the field with a bamboo basket on her back. To his surprise, his wife knelt in front of him, held his hands and told him she loved him and hoped he would love him too.

Yu Luoyang was overwhelmed and immediately retracted his hands and fled back to reality in a panic.

At the moment he was sitting and standing in the dark, his eyes sad and hungry. So he got up and went to the living room to look for food in the refrigerator to fill his hunger. He opened the refrigerator and stood in front of it for a long time.

Looking at the food stuffed inside, Yu Luoyang believed in the love he felt for the first time in his life.