The Meaning of Dreams

I like it more straightforward. It always feels like I'm in high school English class when there's a lot of symbolism and other types of meaning in books that the author may or may not have intended. The Yuntan Ming is trying to save the human race by giving her this information at peril to himself. So he has to like wrap it in these metaphors to be able to give her clues about how the earth can save themselves from the impending dark forest strike that's coming. And then he tells her this story and you suspect something good is going to happen. When Changxin comes back to the earth, they finally read the stories together. That's when the reader gets to hear