Like a Dream (Ru meng) (如梦)

Come on! Wake up!

The cat had died

I never gave it a name. Not very smart!

How does one dispose of a dead cat?

There are many suggestions online

Go to a funeral parlour, Call a courier company Contact a priest. Or a monk.

Get help from a girlfriend or boyfriend

The most environmental friendly advice suggested cooking it!

It had recipes as well.

I'm all for environmental protection

But putting a cat in a microwave oven?

I'm not sure if the cat would've liked the seaside.

I do, though...

I do not know what to do with all these cans.

He did not like any other brands.

I stocked up over a year of supplies

He didn't even finish half. So damned irresponsible.

Have you ever tried cat food?

You should! It's actually pretty good.

But I don't want to change my diet

So now I'm stuck with 289 cans cat food jammed in my pantry. And I can't sleep!

I keep hearing him in my apartment scratching my laptop

In the middle of the night asking me to open a can for him

What should I do?

In your case

It's quite normal. Nothing to worry about.

He wrote me a recipe for a dozen sleeping pill

They effected me in an unexpected way...

Are you following me?

I swear on my computer absolutely not!

You wouldn't be on drugs, or something like that?

Did you want to catch the last train? It's about to leave.

Are you all right?

He died.

Excuse me?

My boyfriend.

That was some strange dream!

I've never worked in such a beautiful office, don't speak flawless Mandarin

Nor am I used to meet such handsome Chinese girls.

You must have found her in a Chinese restaurant

Or on one of those oriental sex websites

I use the Chinese take-out

An MSG overdose, you know...

But my Chinese has never been that good.

I work with them in a small company.

We specialise in system security software

It was my major subject of study at university

I also had ten years of hacker experience

Am I in a dream? Maybe his dream about how great it would be

if he would have waken up again

If you wake up, you might find out you married your boyfriend years ago

He became a more than 200 kilograms sexmaniac

and you had 18 children with him

Perhaps he has 3 jobs to support his, say, three concubines

And he had 38 children born from them That wouldn't be to good, right?

I came late from work to meet him

He wanted to take me up to his office

Was he afraid to tell me he was tired of it?

We never talked much

You're ok?

Why did you leave?

Why didn't you trust me. You thought I was too brainless to trust?

Maybe he just didn't like this world

and he went to find an alternative one

No big deal

I would mind go looking there too

Very rude, your sense of humour

It's not easy to set aside one's own perceptions to really grasp someone else's motives

It may come in phases

You do not know anything about it

You seem so hurt, truly hurt, because of loosing your boyfriend!

I have never lost a closed loved one.

I never even loved seriously

Maybe he really did not like this world

I only blabbered. I don't really know anything

But I do best to find out about it

I will investigate it for you

I really will investigate it for you

What he had in his mind in the end, before he did it

OK?

Oh, shit, shit, shit!

Aren't we having dinner together?

You're not coming?

Don't work too hard, OK?

OK, Thanks.

What the hell is going on?

We haven't got a deadline to meet, have we?

There's no guarantee I meet her again in my sleep

She may not even expect me to look seriously into it!

Max, I told you there is no deadline! Please go home

You're sure to be OK, dude?

I am not the man to break a promise, when I've set out to do something

But I really lack 1ste hand perspective to succeed, you know..

You need to help me with that!... for instance...

When he last was with you...

What did you do?

I'm so sorry I am late. You didn't get tired of waiting?

No, he wouldn't behave like that

How would he...

Too rude!

I 'm starving to death! Let's get something to eat

He always would ask me first if I was hungry too. And if it would be OK to go

Ah!... OK... Shall we go and eat somewhere?

I want a Hamburger. ... Shall we get a hamburger?

That day he only ordered a cup of coffee

He didn't say why he didn't order anything to eat?

I do not know why

He was starving he said before

I guess I'd wanted to talk about something with you

You didn't

Something that I'd hesitate to speak about

Like what?

Like something you'd only tell a good friend about

I do not have good friends

Let's see... like...

I tell you I met a girl you don't know about

I really like her

I went to bed with her

I really fell in love with her

I can be very free & open with her and it's a powerful feeling

I never felt like that and...

I want to be with her

You'd assured me

you'd never do this right away with someone

You'd always say you'd withhold until the night of your marriage

You'd hold me, kiss me, touch my breasts, but

we didn't go further than that

I have always found you

One of the most principled people I knew

Do you think it's possible that...

My cat will come back and visit me in my dreams?

It's not impossible

But, like in the form of a woman, a Chinese woman.

Who gave you this idea, Max?

Why don't you just go and get another cat?

I'll answer your second question first

I would have never had a cat if it wasn't because of my mum.

It was her cat, not mine

We weren't even really that compatible

Although, I guess, we did enjoy each others presence sometimes

Anyway, I am not getting another cat!

As to your first question

It wasn't just an idea, but a fact

What fact?

You're not a cat, he? No, it's a joke

That day I really waited 13 minutes?

five times the green before you cross the road

Am I colour-blind?

I wear pink lipstick because you think it looks the best on me

I don't think I am afraid of death, or getting run over by a car

Why didn't you ask how silly it was to stay standing here

I thought his company was on his mind.

a lot of pressure, you mean

You never told me about it to avoid me worrying?

I don't think it's the reason...

I seem unable to decide things. When I would decide now

I suddenly go for it. to go to the other world alone

That is not how it felt like in the end

But it must be the reason of hesitating this must be why we have to wait 10 minutes

An inability to make decisions!

That day you took my hand...

and you never have been so tenderly

no, not like that...

Very softly

with a lot of feeling

I am very happy

I do not want to leave this world

I hope this moment

will last for ever and ever

You still love me?

Yes

Are we constantly concentrating on the film?

I certainly seem to like piece of shit war movies

You didn't constantly watch the movie

said it was a boring waste of time.

But you watched it half in tears

I was crying?

You said it was very good

And that we should go more often to the movies in the future

I am not in a real normal state of mind

You said this would remind us

how boring a world more bad would be

If I said to go to the movies more often "in the future"

I surely didn't have the intention of leaving you

This "future" is now

I, I did not lie to you I really think this is what it meant

You promised me

How ever it might hurt You'd be honest

I am sincere

I really never thought to leave you

I really believed in a future I really, really did!

Let's continue tomorrow morning

It doesn't matter when exactly, we'll go on

You will come back?

I will be here tomorrow night

Certainly?

Certainly

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