Yedai

Every time I fall asleep, I become Zhang Dai. Every time I wake up, Zhang Dai becomes me. He failed in the imperial examination, his country was ruined and his family was destroyed, and his life was judged as "useless" by the times. I invented jasmine tea in his body, sang opera in the Buddhist temple, and saw off a person I would never see again in the Qinhuai River. I thought I was teaching him how to live - until I was "optimized" when I was thirty. When I had nothing, the snow in the Huxinting Pavilion four hundred years ago fell into my hands. Before his death, he wrote his own epitaph, listing all the "failures" in his life, with the last four words: This heart is bright.