Qin Yang was chased by a Nian beast on New Year's Eve and was forced to enter a terrifying dungeon called "Spring Festival Escape". She accidentally passed the level and received three "New Year's Eve Tongbao" and a huge bonus, and used the money to buy an old house. There was a plane tree in front of the window, with a faded paper shuttlecock tied to the tree. Someone was waiting for her under the tree.
From then on, she began to experience one festival copy after another - breaking five to send the poor, Ren's Day, Shun Xing, Tian's Day, Earth's Day, Son-in-law's Day, Rat Married Girl, Yang Gongji, Lantern Festival, Qingming, Dragon Boat Festival, Chinese Valentine's Day, Zhongyuan, Mid-Autumn Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Winter Solstice, Xiaonian, Laba...
In each copy, she met people who were waiting: three children who were waiting for their sister to come back to play shuttlecock, an old lady who was waiting for her daughter to come back to eat dumplings, an old lady who had been playing shuttlecock for twenty-one years, a folklore graduate student Lin Ye who had been waiting for her for twenty-one years before coming back, Zhang Honghu who was thirty-seven who were waiting for her to come back, Su Qing who was waiting for her sister to save her, a moon god who had been waiting for 10,000 years, a year-keeper who had been waiting for 123 years, and a god who had been waiting for tens of thousands of years...
She replaced them again and again - using time, using copper coins, using dragon energy, using fire, and using herself.
Later she discovered that she was always waiting for herself. The twelve copper coins are her twelfth life; the three buds are the witness of her three replacements; the fire in the stove has never been extinguished from the first copy to the last.
This is a story about "waiting" and "exchange". Some people wait for twenty-one years, some wait for one hundred and twenty-three years, and some wait for ten thousand years. But as long as someone is willing to change, they can wait.
Qin Yang is willing to change. So she became the new New Year God, guarding that world and waiting for Lin Ye and the others to come back for dinner every year.
When it arrives, it won't be cold.
Intention: dedication, perfection, inheritance