Mo Yixin, an ordinary third-year Chinese literature student, dozed off for a while at the campus shuttle stop after leaving the College of Arts and Letters building.
Then she turned into a black-crowned night heron.
The black-crowned night heron is a medium-sized wading bird, the ginger of the bird world, famous everywhere from one website to another.
It was the bird that first got Mo Yixin into birdwatching. Later, she went and turned into one herself.
The black-crowned night heron scatters coldly...
The good news: no more internship paperwork!
The bad news: no more bubble tea!
The even worse news: Wang Jiansu doesn't recognize her anymore!
Before long, a strange rumor began circulating around campus: a Chinese literature student had vanished, and her best friend, Wang Jiansu, seemed to have lost her mind. Every day, she went to the campus's Ningbi Pond and talked to a waterbird.
She wasn't taking photos for a bird photography contest or filming clips to make reaction memes. It was as if an old friend had come to sit by the lake and softly say:
“Let's go see the sea.”
No one had ever heard that Wang Jiansu was into birdwatching, or that she had relatives in a coastal city. Yet, out of nowhere, she began following photography and bird education bloggers, bought a telephoto camera, and, after graduation, left for the coast without looking back.
It was so absurd, like a dream.
Theme: A free spirit will leave a thousand and one times
It's pretty cool to think about it. I'm looking down at the world from the sky, like a conqueror.
Like the murmur of a lonely person, maybe turning into a bird is a kind of relief. Inexplicably, it reminds me of the old song "White Dove".
Kafka, it's really absurd. I'm wondering what you'll do with food in the future, will you be able to adapt to it, haha.