Peach Blossom Spring Booklet 3: Ghost Stories

"The Dream I've Longed For"

A new friend suddenly appeared on my WeChat.

He was my childhood playmate. We hadn't been in touch for fifteen years.

I couldn't remember when I'd added him.

And lately, I'd been dreaming about him every night. I couldn't help sending him a message: "Are you there?"

"The Boy Next Door"

In a remote mountain village, there's a game where people try to snatch a lantern.

They say whoever gets the lantern can communicate with people in another world.

He got the lantern, but he didn't communicate with anyone in the other world.

He became one of them.

Fortunately, he had gotten the lantern.

The story was true.

"The Moon Is Rounder on the Sixteenth"

"The moon is rounder on the sixteenth" is one line from a spell.

Shu Ma had no way of knowing the full spell.

The person who knew it told Shu Ma that reciting it would shorten their life.

One day, that person revealed the truth about the spell to Shu Ma.

By then, they were no longer afraid of shortening their life.

"Love at First Sight"

What's all that arguing upstairs?

Everyone in the building has nearly moved out, but they're still arguing.

I ran upstairs, but there was no one there.

My neighbor came out and said he thought there was a ghost. He was terrified and asked me to sleep with him.

I agreed.

The next day, my timid neighbor had disappeared.

The room I lived in was covered in a thick layer of dust.

"Can't"

They say I'm too young to be impotent. That's me.

Faced with my girlfriend's doubts, I had nothing to say.

I couldn't exactly tell her, "I'm actually pretty good in my dreams," could I?

Why not?

Because the person in my dreams wasn't my girlfriend.

Not only was it not my girlfriend, it wasn't even a woman.

"Sleep Soundly"

I can't sleep properly because I keep dreaming about the dead.

He was my childhood playmate. He drowned in a reservoir in an accident.

After all these years, why does he keep appearing in my dreams?

I can't sleep properly. I want to know if he's trying to tell me something.

I went to the bridge over the river, said to connect the two worlds, hoping to see him once more.

I really did see him.

"Lost in Peach Blossom Village"

I love cycling.

One day, I headed east along a dirt country road and reached a rural highway.

I saw a yellow bus.

Of course, our village couldn't possibly have a brand-new, high-end bus like that. We only had some battered, dusty old coaches.

The bus belonged to outsiders who had come to visit our village.

I rode past it and kept going.

Then I suddenly realized I had somehow ended up in an unfamiliar place.

It was a village I'd never heard of.

I was lost in that village.

I never expected that I would be trapped there forever.

And the reason had everything to do with that yellow bus.

Theme: Love is a kind of obsession