BURNING DREAM
In her final moments, Mei drifted into a long, endless dream, a place where time no longer held any meaning. The dream was filled with all her fantasies and unfinished desires—visions of adventures she never took, the love she never confessed, and the life she never fully lived.
MEI
Mei, an ordinary high school girl, grew up in her grandmother's old bookstore, surrounded by worn-out fashion magazines. She dreamed of one day appearing on a magazine cover, dressed in the most fashionable clothes and bathed in flashing lights.
Despite her efforts to escape her small fishing village through studying, her average abilities held her back.
In the moment between life and death, Mei enters a dream—a world where all her unfulfilled fantasies come alive, offering her a final glimpse of the life she could never have.
Each fragment of her soul seemed to weave itself into the dream, creating worlds that were both familiar and distant, filled with the remnants of all she once yearned for.
Each fragment of her soul seemed to weave itself into the dream, creating worlds that were both familiar and distant, filled with the remnants of all she once yearned for.
But even in the dream, an unshakable question lingered: Would this endless dream burn itself out? Would the spark of her imagination eventually consume the very fantasy it created, reducing her dreams to ash?
Would this endless dream burn itself out?
If the dream ended, where would she go?
We do not know.
The dream stretched on, silent and infinite, as Mei wandered through it, chasing the shadows of her desires…