Koi Carp

In the ninth year of Emperor Renguang of Ningwu, the Jinwenxuan engraving of the Irregular Records records: There is a painter named Qianxi in Fusang who lives in Tai'an and is obsessed with painting carps. There is a lotus pond in front of the courtyard where he lives, and a koi carp often swims around in it. The shallow stream often plays with this koi. At this time, there was a chaos of martial virtue, the feudal kings were separatist, wars were raging, and demons and monsters were causing chaos in the world. When the war reached Tai'an, Qianxi's neighbors all fled, but Qianxi could not leave the koi carp alone and did not leave. After nightfall, the yard where Qianxi lived suddenly caught fire, and there was a vague figure jumping into the fire to protect Qianxi. She said that she was originally a red carp demon who wanted to take Qianxi's life at first, but gradually fell in love with Qianxi as they were together day by day, so she couldn't bear to kill him. At dawn the next day, the fire gradually extinguished, and the red carp demon had long disappeared. Qianxi felt that all this was like a big dream. He hurried to the lotus pond, only to see that the water in the pond was dry, the lotus leaves were all withered, and the koi in the lotus pond also... This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.