Sylvia Lancaster returned to the gate of the Jennings’ villa and finished cleaning the bloodstains on the ground.

Once she was sure no traces were left, she picked up the umbrella from the ground and returned to the Lancaster Villa.

She opened the door to the villa. The air inside was as cold as it was outside.

Sylvia Lancaster stood in the doorway, her gaze passing through the foyer to the empty, dim living room. A sudden sense of unreality washed over her.

She thought helplessly, ’Is this going to be my life from now on?’

’How much longer do I have to endure this?’

’Will I ever find the Space System from my past life again?’

A wave of helplessness and despair suddenly washed over Sylvia Lancaster...

Hearing the main door open, Elaine Hughes emerged wrapped in a comforter to see what was happening.

When she saw it was Sylvia standing there, Elaine Hughes’s anger flared. "Hurry up and get inside!" she snapped at Sylvia, who was still by the door. "What are you doing just standing there? You’re letting what little warmth we have escape!"

Elaine Hughes’s voice snapped Sylvia out of her daze. She quickly turned, closed the door, and stepped inside.

Elaine Hughes snorted. "You brought back the medicine, didn’t you?" she continued. "Hurry up and give it to your brother! And the roof needs to be cleared of snow again. Get to it immediately. Stop being lazy all day!"

With that, Elaine Hughes turned and went straight back to her room, slamming the door shut behind her.

Sylvia stared at the closed door, a storm of complicated emotions churning within her.

She took a few deep breaths to suppress the turmoil in her mind, then went to the kitchen, poured a glass of water, and took the fever medicine to Simon Lancaster’s room.

Simon Lancaster lay on the bed, his eyes shut tight and his brow deeply furrowed, as if he were in immense pain.

His forehead was scorching hot, his face was bright red, and his lips were chapped from the fever.

His body trembled intermittently, and faint moans escaped his lips.

At the sight, Sylvia hurried forward. She opened the box, took out one of the pills, and helped Simon wash it down with the water she’d brought.

Simon moaned and struggled for a moment before managing to swallow the pill and water.

After giving Simon the medicine, Sylvia let out a sigh of relief.

She didn’t linger in Simon’s room. She still had to clear the snow from the roof. If she took too long, Elaine would surely yell at her again.

So she gently tucked the blankets around Simon and left the room.

After Sylvia left, Simon’s eyes fluttered open in a daze.

His head was splitting, his mind was foggy, and he felt a fire blazing in his chest, burning so intensely he could barely breathe.

In the time he had been unconscious with the high fever, he’d been trapped in a bizarre and vivid nightmare.

In the nightmare, he was also burning with a fever.

He vaguely recalled that in the nightmare, a blizzard raged outside. He was lying in bed, moaning in agony from a high fever, and it was Melody Summers who had braved the storm to get him medicine.

Simon didn’t know why Melody Summers was at the Lancaster house.

He only remembered that the Melody in his dream had been frozen stiff from her search for medicine, her lips turning a faint shade of purple.

Melody had put the medicine in his mouth, her eyes full of concern. She had even stayed thoughtfully by his bedside, periodically wiping away his sweat, giving him sips of water, and changing the cool cloth on his forehead...

But his dream-self had treated Melody horribly. 𝒻𝑟ℯℯ𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑛𝘰𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝒸𝑜𝘮

In the nightmare, just as his fever broke, Melody had come down with one of her own.

He hadn’t shown her the same concern she had shown him. Instead, he’d stood over her as she lay moaning in bed and said, "All you ever do is drag the Lancaster Family down! Now that you’re sick, Sylvia has to go to the trouble of taking care of you. Can’t you do anything but cause problems for her?!"

...

Simon couldn’t clearly remember what happened after that.

The dream had been incredibly long, and he only recalled fragments of it.

He remembered that in the dream, Sylvia had later told the family she’d had a miraculous encounter and obtained something called a "space."

The Sylvia in his dream said there was a stream inside that space. Unable to resist, she’d jumped in to play and was astonished to discover that the rash on her body vanished after she touched the water!

It seemed the water in that stream had healing properties!

Upon hearing this, the Lancasters in his dream began to bottle and sell the water from the space.

By selling this magical water, the Lancaster Family returned to its former glory.

Simon remembered that in the dream, he was once again the CEO of the Lancaster Group.

Then, the dream’s setting shifted to a party hosted by the Lancaster Family.

Many people were at the party—the Lancasters, the Hayes Family, the Adler Family, and even the Suttons—but Melody Summers was nowhere to be seen.

The tables were laden with delicacies, and everyone was feasting and enjoying themselves.

The Sylvia in his dream quietly told the Lancasters she was going to the space to get more water, then got up and left the banquet hall.

But just after Sylvia left, a giant white beast materialized out of thin air in the banquet hall.

The beast was immense, its body covered in dense, rock-like spikes. Each one was like a sharp blade carved from white stone.

As everyone in the hall watched in terror, the white beast roared and lunged straight for the banquet tables.

With claws as sharp as steel blades, it tore everyone present to shreds at lightning speed!

Blood splattered across the banquet hall in an instant. No one was spared.

Robert Lancaster and Silas Lancaster were disemboweled by the beast’s claws, their organs and intestines spilling out. Elaine Hughes was impaled through the thigh and chest on the creature’s spikes, blood gushing from her wounds.

The beast bit off the heads of Flynn Adler and his father, Kenneth Adler, in a single motion, decapitating them.

The three Hayes siblings were swatted by the beast—SMACK! SMACK!—and flattened into bloody pulps. The three of them were mashed into a single pile of gore, their blood mixing together until they were no longer recognizable as human.

The surviving Lancasters who witnessed this were scared witless and began to shriek in agony.

The banquet hall filled with the stench of blood.

Screams of terror, wails of agony, and the roars of the beast mingled together, instantly transforming the once-joyful banquet hall into a living hell.

Simon, of course, was not spared. The moment the beast’s claws tore his body to shreds, he jolted awake from the nightmare.

Awake, Simon found himself still lying in the frigid room. He stared blankly at the white ceiling.

A few seconds later, he began to pant heavily.

The dream had been so bizarre, yet so terribly real.

So real that Simon couldn’t tell if what he had just experienced was a nightmare or reality.

He felt as though the pain of being torn apart by the white beast still lingered in his body.

Suddenly, another wave of pain shot through his head, and Simon moaned.

He didn’t understand why he would have a dream like that. The intense fever swept through him, and he sank back into unconsciousness...