May. It was a rainy season.
The pitter-patter of rain continued to fall, like a hazy curtain hanging from the sky to the ground. On this hazy stage, the entire city seemed to have lost its color, turning into a silent oil painting formed by black, white, and gray.
In the oil painting, everyone was walking in a hurry, hurrying past the shop entrance, hurrying past the subway exit, hurrying past the streets and alleys, hurrying past every place that had nothing to do with them.
In front of the exit of the subway station, a long-haired girl with a guitar sat quietly in the corner, strumming the strings from time to time, humming a melody that no one had ever heard before. There were no lyrics in the melody, but there were only waves of tones that were absolutely impossible for a human's voice to produce.
Hurried footsteps walked past the girl, and no one stopped to listen to this overly slow and boring song. Wuyue stopped playing the guitar, raised her eyelids, and looked at the gray sky.
The rain seemed to have stopped in her sight, and the whole world seemed to be moving very slowly. In her vision, the whole black, white and gray city suddenly became a colorful static frame. In this static frame, her eyes shone with a layer of light. In the infrared vision of the siren, everything became clear and distinct.
After a while, Wuyue blinked, and the falling rain began to fall again. The pedestrians began to move again. In front of the subway exit that was gradually becoming deserted, she whispered, "About two months... I can leave this city."
A few pedestrians left from the subway exit. A pair of parents and a pair of siblings walked in front of Wuyue. The little girl grabbed her mother's hand and shook it vigorously. "We promised to go to the zoo today! We promised to go to the zoo today... "
"Why are you going to the zoo in the rain?" The mother held an umbrella and looked down at her daughter. "Don't kick the water — your skirt is wet!"
The little girl seemed to be depressed. The father who was walking next to her bent down and patted her hair. "Good girl, listen to me. I'll take you there next week..."
They gradually walked away. Wuyue looked at the back of the family from afar. After a moment of loneliness, a faint smile appeared on her face. "That's great..."
She stood up, put the guitar on her back, and flicked a small water droplet in the direction of the family. "Don't forget your promise to the child."
After doing this, she tidied up the hem of her clothes, looked up at the still falling raindrops, and turned to leave this place.
However, when she turned around, she saw a girl she did not know standing in front of her.
"Huh?" Wuyue tilted her head in confusion. "What's wrong? Little fellow? "
The little girl just stared at her. After a few seconds, she suddenly burst into tears without warning, "Wahhh … Mom …"
"Hey, don't cry! Don't … "Wuyue suddenly became flustered and clumsily comforted the little girl who suddenly burst into tears." I didn't bully you … I don't know you! "
As she spoke, she looked around anxiously, trying to find the little girl's family. However, there was no one nearby. She only heard the little girl crying, "I'm looking for mommy … mommy …"
Wuyue was startled and turned to look at the little girl's face. "Did you get lost with your mother?"
The little girl just cried and did not answer her question.
Wuyue was distressed. She frowned and after a few seconds of hesitation, she raised her hand. Some raindrops fell from the sky outside the canopy and immediately floated in. The raindrops quickly gathered at her fingertips and in a moment, condensed into the shape of a crystal clear little goldfish.
The little girl was surprised and stopped crying. She looked at the crystal goldfish that Wuyue handed to her.
"Don't cry." Wuyue patted the little girl's hair. "Big sister will show you magic."
The little girl took the goldfish in surprise and happily exclaimed, "Wahhh …"
"Good girl, don't cry. Did you get lost with your mother?"
"Yes."
"Then …" Wuyue looked up at the sky again and then lowered her head. "I'll bring you to your mother."
"Yes … but mommy said that I can't go with strangers."
Wuyue was stunned for a moment and then looked like she did not know whether to laugh or cry. "… Mommy is right … Then let's wait for mommy here, okay?"
The little girl thought hard for a moment and then seemed to find nothing wrong with it. She nodded slightly. "Okay!"
Wuyue pulled the child to her previous resting place and sat down again. She let the little girl lean on her while she untied the guitar and casually strummed the guitar strings.
After an unknown period of time, the originally gloomy sky outside had already darkened.
The little girl blinked and played with the little goldfish in her hand. After a while, she suddenly said curiously, "Big sister, you smell good."
"Smell good? What is it? "
"It's like rain," the little girl said and then suddenly giggled. "It's sweet!"
"Rain?" Wuyue felt that she really could not understand the thoughts of a child. She stretched out her hand and some raindrops that should have fallen outside the canopy at the subway exit landed on her hand. "Is rain sweet?"
However, the little girl who was leaning on her suddenly said something that seemed to have no rhyme or reason. "But the birthday cake is sweet!"
"Birthday cake?" Wuyue had no idea what the child was talking about. "Where did the birthday cake come from?"
"It's on my birthday," the little girl said happily. "It's my birthday today! Mommy went to buy me a cake … "
The little girl suddenly stopped.
She seemed to suddenly think of her mother again, and her eyes quickly turned red. However, Wuyue who was beside her suddenly froze.
Birthday … Buying a cake … Separated when buying a cake?
Such a small child could not have gone far … Was there a cake shop nearby?
She suddenly raised her head and looked in a certain direction across the street.
She raised her finger and pointed at the curtain of rain outside. The drizzling rain immediately twisted slightly, and in the next second, an almost transparent water elemental with a silhouette vaguely similar to May appeared in the air filled with damp mist and drizzling rain.
The water elemental bowed slightly to Wuyue and then turned towards the direction of the street. Its body melted like wax and quickly merged with the puddles on the ground. Then a ripple that was almost invisible to the naked eye flowed along the puddles on the ground, the fog in the air, and the water on the wall quickly drifted away.
The ripple passed through the street, through the alleys, through the storefronts, and finally stopped in front of a shopping street.
The ripple stopped in the puddle of water on the shopping street, and on its surface appeared an almost transparent face, staring at the nearest store:
Rain cake.
The ripple collapsed in the puddle and turned into countless layers of water waves, with the cake shop as the center, spreading everywhere with water.
Where there was water, the siren was everywhere.
…
A young woman anxiously walked on the street, asking for the whereabouts of her daughter from shop to shop. Her clothes were wet, and her hair was messy, but she did not care at all.
No one had seen a little girl walk past their house.
The young woman finally stopped at the end of the street. She blankly looked at the hazy city in front of her, her eyes without focus.
The ripple in the water stopped under her feet.
An almost transparent female figure appeared in the rain behind the young woman. It approached the distraught mother and made a hallucinatory voice like layers of waves. "Go to the exit of the subway station Line 2 … She's there …"
…
Under the canopy of the subway exit, the little girl who had cried for a round finally saw her mother running towards her.
"Mom!!"
The little girl happily jumped into the young woman's arms, and then without waiting for her mother to speak, she turned her head, pointed at Wuyue, and happily shouted, "Sister can do magic! Sister can turn into a goldfish! "
Wuyue stood up and smiled at the embarrassed and frightened young woman. She found that the young woman did not look like her at all, but perhaps their backs were a little similar. "Next time, don't be too far away from your child."
"Thank you, thank you …" The young woman thanked her profusely, and then hurriedly invited Wuyue. "Come to my house, our house …"
"It's okay, I should go home now," Wuyue politely declined the girl's gratitude and kindness. She had already put on her guitar again and was walking out into the rainy city. Before she walked into the rain, she turned back and gave the little girl a bright smile. "Happy birthday!"
In the breeze and drizzle, a page of a calendar came out of nowhere and fluttered in front of Wuyue.
Wuyue looked down and saw the date clearly on the calendar: May 15.
"Stay for a few more days …"
…
In the living room of Hao Ren's house, a group of people sat around a large dining table. Wuyue sat on one side of the table, wagging her tail and fingers. "Then I decided to stay for a few more days. Then, our goddess arranged something, and then I came here … That's all."
"Wow —" Hao Ren sighed. "So many things happened before you came here."
"And what a coincidence," Vivian also sighed. "That day is also May 15? Today is also May 15. "
"Who asked me to be called Wuyue?" Wuyue laughed, the tip of her tail wagging in the air. "I am fated with Wuyue."
"After all, it's May 15th —" Y 'zaks laughed. "In my hometown, some human countries believe that everyone's fate is tied to the day of their birth. The day of one's birthday is the day when one's fate crosses a fork in the road."
"So …" As soon as Y 'zaks' voice trailed off, Hao Ren and Vivian laughed at the same time. "Wuyue, birthday k —"
Before they could say anything, Wuyue had already wagged her tail with a strange look on her face. "But that day is not my birthday — Eh? What were you trying to say? "
"Huh?!" Hao Ren looked at Wuyue, dumbfounded. At the same time, he quickly took out the ribbon tube from his back and stuffed it into the Dimensional Pocket. "You are not in May —"
"I celebrated my birthday on the lunar calendar," Wuyue said, the tip of her tail bending. "When I was born, the Gregorian calendar was not popular in this country. I have been counting by the lunar calendar since I was a child. But my brother is more shameless — he celebrated both the Gregorian and the lunar calendar, and cheated me of gifts twice a year. By the way, what were you trying to say? "
"No … nothing …" Vivian smiled awkwardly. Behind her, the two little bats were scrambling to throw the gift box into Hao Ren's Dimensional Pocket.
Y 'zaks was also embarrassed, but his face was too dark to be seen. "Ahem, I didn't say anything."
Behind him, the prepared gift box was also thrown into the opening of Hao Ren's Dimensional Pocket.
Nangong Wuyue blinked her eyes and muttered in confusion, "Why are they all so weird …"
Hao Ren and the rest quickly waved their hands. "Not weird, not weird at all …"
However, at that moment, the front door of the house was suddenly pushed open.
Under the horrified gaze of Hao Ren and the rest, Lily ran in from the outside. She ran all the way to Wuyue and pulled the ribbon tube. "Happy birthday, Wuyue!"
There was nothing but awkwardness.
"Birthday is coming —" Lily yelled again, and finally noticed that the atmosphere was not right. She was confused. "What's wrong?"
Hao Ren covered his face. "Wuyue, she —"
Vivian finished the sentence. "She celebrated her lunar birthday …"
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