I Stole the Wine at Dusk

Chen Mu, a boatman in his twilight years, would steal the wine from Jiangshen Temple every evening, mix it with the stars and the moon, and drink together. People laughed at him for being crazy, not knowing that he was separated from his lover A Zhou forty years ago, and they agreed to steal wine as a secret code. One night when he was drunk on the bow of the boat, he suddenly saw A Zhou's embroidered shoes floating in the center of the river - it turned out that after she fell into the water, she became the spirit guarding the center of the river, always watching him search for every returning boat with his drunken eyes. When the last sip of wine was poured into the river, thousands of stars gathered into the shape of A Zhou, carrying him to the gentle river bottom. The next day, new shoots of willows sprouted on the bank, like ripples from someone's kiss.