At the first watch of the day, a lantern was hung at Chenghuang Ferry. The ferryman Shen Yetang came with his oar, ferrying only those people who couldn't be let go in the original Liaozhai novel. Her boat has no oars, only oars; it only ferries passengers and does not collect cash; it only asks: "Where are you going?" She will not wait for those who cannot answer; she will send those who can answer to the end of her obsession. Each ferryman is a regret that the original work has not been completed - the Painted Skin Ghost wants to learn to be a human being, Yingning can't laugh anymore, Sang Sheng is trapped in the situation where he can't tell who he loves more, and Qiao Sheng's cut-out heart has been waiting in the underworld for three hundred years. She put these obsessions on the boat and sailed across the boat. As soon as the sound of the oars stopped, the obsession fell away.
The betrayed affection never asks - it just waits, waits for the ferry, waits for the lantern, waits for the sound of oars every night.
Three hundred years to wait for a letter, three hundred days to redeem a heart and a half, three hundred nights to grind out a name from dullness. Time is not an antidote, time is just a container for obsession.
The lights are hung at the first watch and the oars are put away at the fifth watch. Chenghuang Ferry only ferries those who cannot be let go.
