Black Bird

When Wei Heng first met Song Gu at seventeen, the weather was perfect. Ginkgo leaves turned the whole campus golden. The boy had red lips and pearly teeth, a beauty straight out of Gu Kaizhi's paintings, quietly leaning alone in the evening glow, his eyes as gentle as autumn waves beneath a light touch of makeup. At the time, Wei Heng felt an urge to bring the beauty down to earth. So the fearless boy shamelessly went up to him. One morning during a school run, Wei Heng heard that Song Gu was sick and sneaked back to the classroom. He was about to offer some warmth and comfort when the sickly beauty pinned him against the wall and kissed him. The beauty's eyes were now touched by the mortal world, and his heart had been stirred: