This short story collection The Long Slumber written by writer Yang Hao explores the theme of "life as a dreamlike reality." Its characters drift through different worlds: a tenant waking at 2 AM in Beijing, a video game designer in London's Temple Bar district, a fashion model on Kensington High Street, an artist wandering a Maastricht castle at night. These drifters across time and space move with blurred faces yet resolute actions, appearing worldwide as if advancing in search while simultaneously retreating in loss. They share no names or fixed identities, only the same existential dilemma: in our hyperconnected world where information flows instantly, true connection remains elusive. When dawn breaks in one place, dusk still falls in another.