The Xiaoyao Sect has been in decline for many years, leaving only seven useless disciples guarding Hanshan.
An unlucky guy who always picks up rags, a cook who saves money, a defected female nun from the Hehuan Sect, a mute who can't speak, a greedy little girl, a cold-faced junior sister who keeps accounts, and an old dog that can talk.
They are extremely poor, but very happy——
There were only seven dumplings in a broken bowl, and people crowded under the leaky roof to watch the stars. On New Year's Eve, they collected money to buy half a piece of maltose.
"May every year be like this one."
Seven thick bowls clinked together.
Until the people from Tianji Pavilion came to the door and said that they were stepping on the seventh star ember that could destroy the heaven and the earth.
Until the little girl cried and said that she dreamed that everyone was gone.
Until the junior sister's account book began to secretly record everyone's birthday and death.
It turned out that under the ashes of the first six savior stars, there was an ancestor of the Xiaoyao Sect buried.
It turns out that the Seventh Star Jin wants living people to die voluntarily in order to pay with their lives.
It turned out that the phrase "year after year" was the most extravagant wish they had ever made.
Later——
The cook blew up the money bag containing the ashes and said with a smile that this time he was free of charge.
A female cultivator from the Hehuan Sect spent her entire life trying to save the people, and her temples were covered with wild flowers when she died.
The mute broke his chains and turned into a demon, guarding the abyss with his body.
The little girl swallowed all her memories to calculate her last chance of survival. She forgot about the whole world but still remembered to give him candy.
The junior sister showed him the way with tears in her eyes, begging him not to look at her current appearance.
The old dog showed up as the true form of Qilin and made a decisive move, saying that he really had to guard the door this time.
And the boy who always said "it's not hard" finally walked towards his destiny with a smile.
That night when the stars were like rain, no one in the world knew——
There were once seven ordinary people who shared a bowl of dumplings in a shabby house in Hanshan and said with a smile that they wanted to be together forever.
Later they broke their promise.
One life after another is exchanged for the real "years and years" in this world.
——
"This night, the stars are like rain. It turns out that an old friend has returned."
Intention: Live toward death, use ashes as a lamp