Return to Wonderland, Volume 4

This book is Volume 4 of the Return to Wonderland series. The series draws on Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland but turns that whimsical rabbit hole thoroughly into a dark fairy tale of blood and violence: Alice Liddell, who fell down the rabbit hole, is no longer the curious little girl—she has grown up, married, and given birth, while her mind slides bit by bit toward collapse. Her daughter Calie Liddle is forced to follow her mother's footsteps back into "Wonderland," where she witnesses the twisted figures redesigned for this work—the Mad Hatter, the Queen of Hearts, the Cheshire Cat—seeking the truth behind her mother's illness and confronting the madness expanding within herself. The series sets its stage in the real world, while Wonderland is written as another dimension that feeds on human madness and requires a "sacrifice" each generation to maintain its isolation; this volume continues that main line. Because the series circulates in Chinese online mostly in "volumes/episodes," the specific plot of this volume cannot be reliably verified; only the series background and positioning are given here, with no invented plot. To fully understand the story, it is best to start with Volume 1 and read in series order.