Chapter 26: Irenes Talent
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Irene possessed the ability to enter other people’s dreams—and according to her, not only could she slip into someone’s dream, but she could also influence its course to some extent. She could, for example, summon a dump truck by ringing the end-of-exam bell within the dream.
Honestly, if used well, it seemed like a formidable skill. It might even allow for advanced maneuvers like psychological suggestions, mental infiltration, or memory alteration.
But Yu Sheng was skeptical about how much of Irene’s boasting was reliable. So far, she was utterly useless even in dreams; she couldn’t even hide properly in the bushes.
And even in dreams, she was still trapped inside that oil painting.
Irene’s oil painting floated before Yu Sheng. The doll-like girl within the frame looked a bit embarrassed, and Yu Sheng couldn’t help but find her current state awkward—floating mid-air like that, she might as well have been hanging on a wall.
“You can only stay inside the painting even in dreams?” Yu Sheng raised an eyebrow, finally voicing his doubt. “I thought that since we’re in the mental realm, you’d at least be able to come out and stretch your legs…”
“That’s why it’s called a curse,” Irene replied helplessly. “I’m trapped in the painting in reality, and it’s the same in the spiritual world. No matter where I go, I can’t get out of this painting unless I find a suitable vessel—freedom? I don’t even have that in dreams.”
“Well, that’s… pretty unfortunate,” Yu Sheng said sincerely.