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Contest Title: (Xiao Youling)
Type: Fan Creation
Original Work: (Xiao Youling)
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Thunk.
Thunk.
Thunk.
Each strike lands dull and heavy.
Suspended in midair, dazed, watching that shattered self—still not spared.
isn’t damaged… is it…
That was the first gift you ever gave…
Blood mixed with torn flesh scatters—
the blade still falls, again and again.
“Get away! All of you, get away!”
No… go! Hurry!
“What… have you done to her!”
Don’t worry about me!
…I’m begging you.
“Now that the Sinful Rabbit isn’t here to protect you, let’s see where you can run today!”
No…
“Solas! Do it—!”
Don’t—!
Had thought—
it was to be another reunion.
Iinstead, darkness rose from beneath your feet, devouring every inch,
until only your eyes remained—crimson.
Failed again…
How many times has it been now?
“It’s useless!”
“Why won’t it work?!”
How—
how can I wake you…
Perhaps it was my persistence that moved the heavens—
or perhaps it was defiance of His will.
At last, He cast His gaze downward.
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“The karma between you and her is spent. Entanglement must end.”
“What wrong has she committed, to deserve such an end?!”
“Her heartlessness was born of obsession in her mortal life.
Only through falling to demonhood could she take form.”
“Besieged by the hatred of many,
thus was the blood-curse wrought.”
“Is there truly no other way?”
“…The Moonfolk’s primal spirit draws upon moonlight; it is capable of cleansing corruption.
Yet your bloodline runs thin—its power cannot be fully realized.”
“To summon her back—
bind to stone,
soul to weather a hundred years.
Are you still steadfast?”
“I do not regret.”
“Then you shall have it.”
Gaze held steady, fingertips brush lightly—
crimson eyes, cheek, fine hair wind-tossed.
—It's all right. I'll wait for you.
Their forms slowly fade into stone.
That night, the moon was full, sharp as a blade.
No one remembered its former form.
World washed white—
at last, the day has come.
Though buried beneath heavy snow,
the form was no longer what it once was,
yet I knew at a glance it was you.
Heh… never imagined such an adorable face.
It’s been a long time—
Little Ghost.
Watching you wander, lost and confused,
trying to leave yet unable, failing again and again—
even this stone body begins to ache.
The curse, cleansed away over a hundred years,
light as dust.
…
To see your eyes clear—
that is enough.
Drip—
Drop—
On this day, you are always trapped by the backlash,
eyes crimson, blood in your tracks, returning from the forest.
Whenever the new moon comes,
moon hidden, sky heavy,
it is also the hour when I am most powerless.
The karma between you and them…
has it still not been severed…?
Light smoke drifts.
Firelight flickers.
From a small hut by the village entrance comes a child’s tender voice.
“Grandpa, you didn’t finish that story last time!”
“In the Land Without Heart, a stone seals a vengeful ghost.
Every new moon she appears in the human world, seeking revenge without end… what happened next?”
“Hm… let me think…”
“That stone—
to save her, it offered itself in exchange.
So she could step into the human world,
see the warmth and cold of it,
and live freely as a human for three days each month.”
“Did the stone succeed?”
“It did.
She remembered everything, and with a relieved smile drifted away with the wind, leaving behind only the words: I do not regret.”
“What about the stone? What happened to it?”
“It burned away the last wisp of its soul… and was seen no more.”
“Why didn’t the ghost stay? The stone waited for her for a hundred years!”
The old man gazes up at the moon, voice slow and distant—
“Only because she loved it.”
Legend says—
the Stone of Three Lives records past and present lives,
yet none know
within it is sealed a single wisp of a lingering soul.
〔Ending Theme〕
“Tian Ruo You Qing” — A-Lin
?? — Production Credits
Produced by:
Creative Director: The Director (secretly filming without the boss knowing)
Screenwriter: The Devil Screenwriter
Director: The One Who Panicked After Filming
Production Design: The Traumatized Art Lead
Talent Management: The Manager (who would rather not be credited this time…)
Starring
Little Ghost: Special Appearance by the Original
Stone: Special Appearance by the Moon Mirror Itself
Sinful Rabbit: Yun Cangyue
Wronged Woman: Liu Xiyu
Guest Appearances
Executioner:
The Ignorant Crowd: Ensemble
Old Man & Child: Extras from
Special Thanks
“Tian Ruo You Qing” — thank you for tearing the audience’s hearts open even wider?
