Ink Left in the World

There is no perfection in this world, but it can make up for it. That drop of ink that doesn't want to be just a paint fills up every shortcoming in the world. During the Yuanyou period of the Northern Song Dynasty, the painter Zhou Yan spent his whole life painting all the mountains and rivers. At the age of sixty, he closed his doors and painted his last painting, "Ten Thousand Volumes of Mountains and Rivers". It took seven years to paint, and only the last stroke was left - the small village at the foot of the mountain, the lamp at the entrance of the village, and the people waiting under the lamp. But that year, the village was gone, the lights were out, and the people were gone. Zhou Yan put down his pen and sighed: "There is no perfection in the world, I can't finish this stroke." He left this unfinished painting and passed away. The blank space in the painting became the first regret in the world. Thousands of years later, the painting hung in a museum in a southern city. After closing one night, the ink accumulated for thousands of years slowly gathered along the blank space on the painting and condensed into a drop of ink. The drop of ink seeped out from the edge of the scroll, fell on the glass, and floated in mid-air with a flick. It opened its eyes. From this night on, whenever someone in the distance stands at a crossroads of no return in life and calls out with regret, the "ink" mark on the little ink belly will feel it. It followed the call and floated away, taking that person into the world of painting - a place composed of Chinese paintings from past dynasties, where regrets condensed into a incomplete ink world. There, it cannot rewrite the past, but it can help people make up for the words they didn't have time to say and the promises they didn't have time to fulfill. Every time I help someone realize their dream, the cinnabar "ink" mark on the little ink belly becomes brighter. It doesn't know yet that when this seal shines to the end, it will fill in the painting for a person - the last stroke.