My name is Yuan Gungun, number E-5121, and I am a trainee at the Earth Branch of the Universal Emotional Purification Agency.
My home planet was once the happiest place in the galaxy.
There were no tears, no arguments, no sleepless nights.
Everyone's smile is as standard as a copy and paste.
Then we laughed ourselves to death.
——Excessive saturation of happy energy, leading to a complete collapse of the emotional ecosystem.
The home planet has become a huge, exquisite, and empty spiritual Disneyland.
No sadness, no anger, no anxiety... And no life left.
The elders finally panicked.
They looked through data from all over the universe and discovered an incredible phenomenon:
That remote, backward blue planet that doesn't even have access to interstellar coordinates—the Earth,
The humans above are still crying, laughing, angry, looking forward to, disappointed, and rekindling hope over various things.
Their emotions are messy, rough, and often painful.
But their spiritual world is full of vitality.
So I was airdropped to Earth.
Mission goal: Study the emotional ecology of people on Earth, extract "real emotional samples", and bring them back to the home planet as seeds of recovery.
To put it bluntly, he is here to steal their joy, anger, sorrow, and joy.
I thought this was a simple collection task.
Until I set up a stall selling royal dishes from my home planet, and people on Earth cried after eating and asked me, "Did you put medicine in my bowl?"
Until I turned into a little white cat, I was studying under a teacher but was rejected by civet cats because I was not good at it, but the dogs seemed to like me.
Until I discovered that the girl from the milk tea shop who smiled every day would sit alone on the roadside in a daze for a long time after closing time...
I couldn't tell whether I was studying them or whether they were changing me.
Three months later, the home star sent a recall order.
I looked at the report filled with data in my hand, and then looked out the window at the city where people were queuing up for a fried chicken steak.
I deleted it.
——
This is the story of a small alien ball learning "unhappiness" on Earth.
Smile and smile and you might see yourself.
Purpose: To explore the essence of "happiness" through the perspective of an alien observer - true happiness is not the absence of pain, but the ability to still love life after accepting pain. It satirizes modern civilization's pathological pursuit of "positive energy" and the phenomenon that people actually lose happiness in the process of pursuing happiness.