The plot of Dream City is not much different from similar adventure stories in the West. It is unique in that all the characters in it are related to books to some extent. The protagonist of The Legend of the Carved Dragon, the demon king of the underground world, the Shadow Emperor, has the identity of a writer. The location of the story, Shuxiang City, is the center of book creation, publishing and trade in the author's fictional world, and it is a city bred and developed with books as the center. The social ecology of the whole book city is formed around books: book seekers hired by collectors or booksellers shuttle between the above-ground book market and the underground maze, looking for and hunting precious books from the underground and bringing them back to the ground; Most booksellers and publishing agents who appear to be kind to others are hypocritical. In order to control the whole book market, there are hidden secrets behind it. There are all kinds of strange creatures living in the underground world. They all make a living by books: the book spirit, which lives by reciting the works of great writers, is said to be a terrible creature; All kinds of insects, spiders and bookworms that wander underground will also bring life danger to tourists; However, the most important thing is all kinds of strange books hidden underground: books with organs, books that can poison people, and "living books" with life.

Fang Fang once wrote in "Ink World": "Books are the only places where there is sympathy, comfort, happiness and love. The book loves everyone who opens it, sends out stability and friendship, asks for nothing in return and never leaves. " Unlike those who blindly praise the writing world, Morse insists on showing readers its dark side. In the city of dreams, book hunters kill each other and persecute each other in order to compete for rare books, and also wantonly violate the good creatures in the underground-book spirit. They are outlaws in this "book world" written by Morse. Of course, behind them are ambitious booksellers like Festu Mephie. Stenko and his associates, together with these book hunters, formed a tight underworld, secretly manipulating this elegant town with a prosperous surface but full of struggles inside. Therefore, in The City of Dreams, what is really terrible is not the ferocious creatures in the underground world, nor the ghostly shadow emperor, nor the demonized book spirit, but these dark forces who are crazy for interests and power.

To some extent, Morse's story rigorously quotes the classic elements of classic magic literature. In his story, the dark side is powerful and cunning, which is difficult to conquer, while the villain seems to be much weaker. Like Frodo, the Hobbit of The Lord of the Rings, the legendary dragon carver Hilde Lester never left his hometown of Shilongbao before the story happened. He was just a young writer who had never published his works. Of course, just like Frodo's trip to Middle-earth, Sylvester's exploration in Shuxiang City is also his journey of growth. While he realized the dangers of the foreign world, he also realized the greatest mysterious force in the literary world that he had never touched in his life.

In fact, like Tolkien, C.S. Lewis and other magic writers, Morse constructed his own fictional world Chamonix through several works, including City of Dreams. Shilongbao and Shuxiang mentioned in Dream City are all cities of Chamonix. Through this fictional world, Morse has successively created a series of works, such as Little Brothers and Sisters from Dwarf Country, Lumo and Miracle in the Dark. These independent but secretly related stories may make Chamonix, Tolkien's Middle-earth and Lewis's Narnia become the "foreign land" that readers yearn for. Morse, who was famous for his cartoon creation in his early years, is still continuing his "adventure" in Chamonix. In The City of Dreams, our journey with Hildrest has ended, but Morse's story is not over yet. We will continue to follow his words and explore the new legend of Chamonix.