milk and memory

Supernatural Romance, Psychological Drama · Completed

《写给断尾鱼的日记》

Diary for the Fish with the Broken Tail

by Gui Wuli / 归无里

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One day, Chen Huai opened the wardrobe door with a mouthful of toothpaste foam, and a blue ghost came drifting and swaying out from inside.

The ghost wailed miserably, “I am a melancholy blue corpse~ I am a melancholy blue corpse~”

With a “clack,” he shut the wardrobe door. Perhaps he had not slept well the night before. He had seen a ghost.

Later, the blue ghost was bouncing around the house, declaring that she had to find the memories from when she was alive before she could be sent on to the next life. Otherwise, she would haunt him day after day and suck out his vital essence.

Chen Huai lay flat on his back and opened his mouth. “Go ahead and suck it.”

Qin Yao: ?

“I happen to be dying to die anyway.”

“...”

The red roly-poly toy on the old windowsill was pushed this way and that by Qin Yao, swaying left and right. Outside the window, clematis stretched out in one continuous mass, while the wind chime she had strung herself hung from the window ledge, chiming with a tinkling sound.

She said wistfully, “I always remember that I have to go to a temple in the alleyways of Shancheng to pray for blessings, and that I have to write a letter to the resident of No. 136 Mati Street.”

Chen Huai lay to one side, tapping at his phone, the light from the screen illuminating his eyes in the darkness. His eyebrows twitched, and he laughed as he scolded her for having a literary streak.

“What, this female ghost sucking out my vital essence isn’t enough? Now you want to go looking for some old lover?”

Dear Broken-Tailed Fish:

It is raining in Lincheng today.

I suddenly remembered the first time we met. At the entrance of the newsstand, my camera jammed and wouldn’t take anything.

My hair was damp, and everywhere was filled with the stifling vapor of rain. You looked at me suspiciously and asked if I had been secretly spying on you.

I was tongue-tied for quite a while before saying, “People shouldn’t be this confident. You’d better wake up.”

Wake up.

【To me, you are an old story brought up again. And again.】

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CHAPTERS

Sun Fusheng