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Part 1: Morning Star

In the wakened world, life expands when you are young and shrinks when you are old. In dreamworld, life expands until the last dream. [Morning Star Chronicles]


Part 3: Black Jade

I stole the Mirror of Retribution from the King of Death, and he wants it back, and me. I needed it. Until I discovered how unimaginably useful it was, I intended returning it. The King’s attention forced me to search for immortality. The solution was absurdly simple: Replace another person’s dream avatar with your own. My luck was also absurd. My half sister was the perfect host, younger, rightful heir to the throne, and already captured. I will give myself a glorious funeral.  [Queen Black Jade’s Diary]


The Little Chinese Dreammaster is set in the Qing Dynasty (~1790). In the first part (Morning Star), a young dreamer falls into the dream of a Dreammaster, who is also the Queen of the ancient Kingdom of Shu. It is a sentence of insanity or death. Morning Star escapes but returns to the dream past seeking medicine for a pandemic in her village. She learns of a cure but becomes entangled in a curse by Dreammaster Black Jade on her half sister, Princess Phoenix, the rightful heir to Shu. The Dreammaster entraps Princess Phoenix in a marble statue and transforms her sister’s fiance into an owl messenger. In the second part (Blue Cloud), Morning Star’s father fights kidnappers, corrupt officials, bandits, and mercenaries in attempts to free his wife and daughter from slavery instigated by Dreammaster Black Jade. With the help of an old Uyghur dreamseer, Morning Star learns to manipulate dreams to help her and her mother free themselves. In the last part (Black Jade), Morning Star’s knowledge of dreamworld explodes with the aid of a Butterfly Dreamlord, her warrior father, her musician mother, and a Daoist monk. She defeats Black Jade’s sorcery in the deepest dimension of dreamworld by becoming a new dream being.  

Part 1: Morning Star

   1. Terror in Two Worlds

   2. Flowers That Can Fly

   3. Ancient Medicine

   4. A Sneaky Doctor

   5. All Nightmares Are the Same Color

   6. The Origins of Magic

   7. A Village Meeting

   8. The Law of Threes

   9. “Blue Cloud is Coming”

 10. Even Monks Cry

Part 2: Blue Cloud

 11. Evening Star in Chengdu

 12. Ghosts, Charms, Signs, and Oracles

 13. Second-rate Villains

 14. The Dragon Gate Gang

 15. Prisons within Prisons

 16. Slave Girl

 17. The Beckoning Light

 18. Someone Else’s Dreams

 19. Chasing Camels

 20. Lady Khan’s Revenge

 21. Dancing in the Desert

 22. A Fat Monk

Part 3: Black Jade

 23. Dreamcatchers

 24. Dragon Family Chronicles

 25. Golden Lily’s Dreams

 26. Dream Demons

 27. “Harder Than the Road to Heaven”

 28. Full Glory’s Decision

 29. Homecoming in Butterfly Village

 30. Black Jade’s Realm

 31. Even Dreamers Lie

 32. The Ultimate Dimension of Dreams

 33. Balance in Dreamworld

 34. Memories That Might Have Been


Part 2: Blue Cloud

A martial artist can evaluate the ultimate value of his art only with life-and-death combat. It is the only art for which most practitioners do not want to know. [Sky Blue Cloud]



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