My Absurd Life

Misfortune can strike without warning, and disaster can befall anyone at any moment.

When I was thirteen, my grandfather suddenly fell gravely ill. We searched everywhere for a doctor, but to no avail, and before long he passed away. Less than three months after he was gone, my second uncle died in an accidental electrocution, and my friend Song Jingyu didn't make it through that Mid-Autumn Festival either...

After that, the villagers decided I was a bringer of misfortune. They bullied me in every way and told me to get out of the village. Some even wanted me dead.

Who could have guessed how unpredictable life is? When disaster struck, they actually knelt and begged me to save them...

Many years later, I finally returned to my hometown. Looking at the house, overgrown with weeds and falling apart, I couldn't hold back my tears.

At midnight, I lit a candle. Its light was faint as I sat where Grandpa used to sit in silence, my shadow stretched long behind me.

A cold wind blew, and the candle flame flickered. Suddenly, the place erupted in noise. Dozens of thugs charged at me from the shadows, carrying broadswords and threatening to take my life.

But when they were only a few meters away, every one of them froze in place, unable to move. Then a flock of man-eating crows swooped in. Wherever they passed, only stark white bones remained...