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Smile on Milk Carton
Every night, the little girl puts a carton of milk on the windowsill, waiting for her father who works overtime. On her birthday night, she put down the milk and fell asleep as usual. In the early morning, my father came back, drank the milk, and drew a smiley face on the box. The next day, she smiled when she saw the empty box and the smiling face - expecting to be late sometimes, but never absent.
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Lingyi Is a Substance That Dissolves Aldehydes
Lin Tang, a girl from the Department of Chemistry, accidentally inhaled acetaldehyde in the laboratory. From then on, she would dream about her late mother every time she got drunk. She began drinking heavily just to stay in her dreams for a while longer. When her mentor found out, she scolded her for wasting her talent. Lin Tang cried and said: "In reality, no matter how many substances I synthesize, I can't synthesize my mother." The instructor was silent for a long time and took out a bottl
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Morning Light Small Stationery
She was like a piece of glass covered in gray, always looking down at the edge of the crowd. Ajie flashed his light to her every day - a note at dusk, a wave in the morning. The ashes slowly fell away, and light shone through. On her graduation day, she stood in front of the volunteer team. He smiled and said, "You are already very bright, I just wiped the ashes for you." She finally looked up and saw that her own light was reflected in other people's eyes, but his ashes had not yet been wiped o
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Folding Chair Project General Manager
Project manager Li Wei suffered from panic attacks and suffocation during a high-pressure meeting and was rushed to the hospital. After being discharged from the hospital, he actually carried the folding chair to work every day. The boss angrily questioned, and he unfolded the recliner and lay down in front of everyone: "The doctor said, this is my new work attitude." Everyone was stunned, and then burst into laughter. However, he completed all tasks seriously and his efficiency increased. At th
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Night Lights in the Community
Property fines are plastered all over the unit door, and garbage still appears on time late at night. The new security guard, Lao Zhou, didn't say anything. He bent down to tidy up every day before dawn, and placed a rechargeable night light next to the bucket. At first, some people laughed at him for being stupid, but on the seventh night when the lights came on, the garbage thrower suddenly felt his hands became heavy. At the end of the month, the corner is as clean as new. The owners suddenly
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Corporate Interviewer
Reporter Lin Wei sneaks into a downstream village to investigate a river pollution incident. She witnessed the despair of the victims, the indifference of local officials and the rampage of enterprises, and felt deeply swallowed by malice. On the night when the key evidence was obtained, the company sent people to threaten and induce her, and she was almost shaken. But in the early morning, she saw the villagers still using the turbid river water for cooking. At that moment she understood - the
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Graffiti Experts in the Office Building
Uncle Chen, an elderly cleaner, goes to work on time every day and says that "living is my job." He always carefully wipes an abandoned office building late at night. Everyone was puzzled. It wasn't until he fell ill and was hospitalized that they discovered that it was the former site of his company before bankruptcy. What he wiped was not the dust, but the graffiti on the wall from his daughter's childhood - she had died in the accident that bankrupted him. It turns out that his real "job" for
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Ah Chen on the Barren Hill at the Entrance of the Village
The villagers laughed at Lao Chen's barren mountains, saying that fruits could pop out of the cracks in the rocks? He didn't say anything back, and went up the mountain before dawn, bending down, collecting water, and staring at saplings. If watering occurs until midnight during the dry season, grafting failure will occur again. Three years later, the branches of the orange tree were bent, so he picked the largest basket and placed it at the entrance of the village. Under the sun, the bulging fr
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Violin Medical Card
Violinist Kaoru told a lie to Kousei: "I'm just an ordinary girl with a cheerful personality who likes your music." She pretended to appreciate his friends and not care about her illness. She described all her hospital days as "going to music festivals" and blamed every fainting episode on "hypoglycemia." It wasn't until she collapsed on the final stage that Gongsheng found a stack of medical records and a letter in her violin case—— "I lied. But only one thing is true: getting you to play th
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Ping'an Courtyard
The three generations of the Chen family live under the same roof and take "Peace is blessing" as their family motto. They have been free from illness and disaster for decades, with not even a small bump. It wasn't until his daughter accidentally fell down that his father told the truth in desperation: his family had formed a contract with the "Guardian Spirit" for generations, and in exchange for absolute peace, family members were not allowed to leave their homeland for the rest of their lives
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Community Warm Little Inn
After losing his job, he put aside his anxiety, ran early in the morning and studied late at night. I learned the craft in half a year and opened a small repair shop, often repairing for the elderly for free. Neighbors praised him and he said with a smile: "When I fell down, I just happened to see if there were any neglected seeds on the ground." Soon, the shop became a warm station in the community, and business and goodwill grew quietly.
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Classical Ancient Books and Ancient Members
In the Classics Department, Eru found an old book that had been carefully repaired. "I'm curious - who marked it in such elegant handwriting but never left a name?" She followed the lead and found out that it was a taciturn librarian who had been quietly repairing damaged books for many years without making any noise. Eru did not reveal it in public, but handed over a note: "The way you protect knowledge taught me how to cultivate myself." The other person raised his head and nodded slightly.
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Mental Shopping Cart
Zhao Yan's shopping cart was once filled with products to combat anxiety. Until she started reading for an hour every morning, she discovered that the barrier built by the pages of the book actually blocked out the roar of consumerism. Three months later, she canceled all promotional subscriptions, but tasted the sun-dried sweetness of tomatoes. Now she is sitting in a room with only bookshelves and a pot of green plants left, stroking the rough edge of "Walden" with her fingertips and laughing
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Fog in the Cold Mountains
After ten years of hard training, he finally defeated the Sword Master and reached the top of the martial arts world. Amid the cheers of the crowd, he felt more confused than ever. The cold wind blew his robes, and he looked at the mist-shrouded mountains at his feet, and suddenly understood: the real weight is not climbing, but guarding. Now the safety of the entire world rests on his unprepared shoulders.
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Quantum Observer
Physicist Evan discovered that the fate of the heat death of the universe is irreversible, but he found a glimmer of hope in quantum entanglement: changing the state of particles through observation may be able to restart the universe. But the price is to become an eternally lonely observer. When all human beings choose to upload their consciousness to the virtual heaven, he stays alone in the real universe. At the end of time and space, he looked into nothingness and chuckled: "If fate is the e
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A Letter from Happy Dream Butterfly
Thousands of years after Zhuang Zhou dreamed of a butterfly, a scholar woke up to the sound of a bell and found phosphorescent butterfly wings resting on his pillow. He followed the butterfly's path and opened "Zhuangzi", and unexpectedly traveled through a dream to see himself presiding over the funeral - the butterfly was taking out the faded marriage certificate from the coffin. It turns out that his deceased wife turned into a butterfly and led him to understand the boundary between life and
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Both Ends of the Rope
The new intern from the marketing department took the blame. Everyone knew that the manager had lost the customer data, but the manager privately handed him a "review template": "Young people grow up faster when they are wronged." He instinctively wrote a defense email, but stopped before sending it - thinking of the manager's words, "You can explain it as much as you want, it depends on who the senior management believes." He deleted the email and submitted his resignation directly. The next da
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Island Harbor
Lin Wei would meet the elite neighbor who was jogging every morning, and in the evening she would see the girl from the studio returning with her work in her arms. She once envied their self-discipline and talent, but she was just a convenience store clerk. Until one day when it rained heavily, she took in a girl in the studio who was taking shelter from the rain. The girl said enviously: "Your shop is like a warm island." Lin Wei suddenly discovered that the person she envied was also envious o
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Suddenly Like the Night Wind Blowing Thousands of Mountains
During the war years, Mr. Lu, a blind storyteller, wandered around the world. His only wish was to complete the composition of "Song of Mountains and Rivers", the legacy of his deceased friend. For ten years, only a mute girl, Xiao Man, helped him walk in the market every day, listened to his stories, and silently shielded him from bullying. At the celebration of the new dynasty, dignitaries wanted to seize "Song of Mountains and Rivers" for flattery. Mr. Lu would rather die than obey and was th
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Walking in the Reeds by the River
In his twilight years, the poet walks along the river bank every day and scatters his unfinished poems into the flowing water. One day, I discovered that all the discarded lines of poetry had grown spontaneously into golden flowers in the reeds downstream. When the children broke the straw and played it, the melody that flowed out was his first love poem that had been lost for many years. It turns out that the river has already turned his loneliness into a secret fairy tale for the entire villag
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Such a Maze of Memories
In the future world, all humans are implanted with memory chips since birth. The woman always dreams about the same blue maze, but the chip test shows "blank memory data." She searches for the puzzle solver against the law, and eventually discovers that the maze is a firewall built for her with her father, a scientist whose data was deleted, using his last consciousness. The Chip Empire attempts to control mankind, and only her untampered dreams hold the key to freedom.
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The Shadow of the Tree Falls into My Arms
The young man jumps under the tree every day, trying to pick the golden fruit hanging high on the branch - it is the bright fruit that symbolizes love in legend. He fell countless times but could never reach it. One afternoon, he finally gave up and sat down against a tree tiredly. At this time, the ripe fruit fell naturally and rolled gently into his arms. The shadows of the trees sway gently: What you insist on does not belong to you, and what truly belongs to you does not need to be fought fo
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Maybe What You See Is the Distance
A middle-aged bankrupt man sat alone in the park late at night, letting the rain soak his suit. He repeatedly fiddled with the divorce agreement and the court seizure notice, and suddenly remembered his mother's words when he was a boy, "Everything will pass through." As the morning light faded, he folded the document into a paper boat and put it into the stream. Sensitivity was once a curse, but now it has become a salvation - maybe loss is not the end, but the courage to allow yourself to star
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Half Missing Moon String
A general guarding the border and a medical girl from an enemy country secretly fell in love for three years at Mingyue Gorge outside the battlefield. They met each other every night with half a piece of the moon as a token of trust. On the eve of the end of the war, he promised: "If we win this battle, I will use my military merits to seek a plan for intermarriage between the two countries." However, she learned that her mother country wanted to ambush her in the canyon, so she resolutely lit a
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The Title of This Book Is No Return to the Moon
With the border warring for years, military doctor Yun Niang rescued Xiao Chen, a seriously injured enemy general. During the careful care, the two understood and cherished each other across their attitudes. The war resumed, and Xiao Chen was forced to return to the battlefield. Before leaving, he put a warm jade into her hand: "This jade is called 'No Return'. If I die in battle, it will warm you for the rest of your life." She held the warm jade day and night and waited until the war was over.
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Cinnabar Lady Picture
The painter of the previous dynasty was convicted and exiled for an unfinished painting of "Lady on a Cold Night". Before his death, he gave the scroll containing a secret message to his only daughter Yun Niang. Ten years later, the new emperor searched for famous paintings from all over the world. Yun Niang risked her life to bring the painting to the palace because the painting was painted with invisible paint as evidence of an unjust case. When she knelt down to unfold the painting, she saw t
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Orange Vines and Vines
After the old captain retired, he lived in a sea-view room and stared at the orange vines covering the window lattice every day. After a storm one night, the vines actually weave the outline of his late wife. He resolutely set sail to complete their agreed ocean voyage, with a length of orange vine tied to the stern of the ship. When crossing the equator, countless butterfly-like vines bloomed on the sea, as if she once said: "Love is an eternal voyage."
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Between the Pages
26-Year-old Xia Ye was always attacked by anxiety while working in the library. One day, she accidentally pulled out a yellowed copy of "The Dilemma of the Soul". The margins were filled with comments from strangers: "When I read this in 1987, I forgave my father." "I read it again in 2001, and cancer is not that scary anymore." She began to read according to the annotations and recommendations, and those notes that spanned time and space were like hands tapping her shoulders. Three years later
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Congratulations to the Bridegroom and Farewell Memories
On a stormy night in the Double Ninth Festival, the white-haired poet climbed a hundred feet tall building alone. Looking at the vast autumn colors of China, I recall the heroic passion of writing in my youth, but now I am only filled with desolation. He raised his glass and drank wildly at the yellow flowers, laughing at the fact that everyone kept repeating the anecdote about the broken hat every year. In my drunken eyes, I suddenly saw swans flying south and the sun setting in the west. It se
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Gilt Grottoes Swallowtail Butterfly
Archaeologists discovered an unfinished Tang Dynasty flying apsara mural in the Dunhuang Grottoes. In the painting, a flapping swallowtail butterfly rests on the eyebrows of a goddess. In the middle of the night, when the mural was lighted, the butterfly flew out and led him through a sandstorm night thousands of years ago. In order to save his beloved mural, the painter painted the last stroke of blood with blood. The soul turned into a butterfly and stayed in the eyes of the goddess forever, g
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Peony Acacia Tone
Song Yutang, a famous actress in the Republic of China opera troupe, always won acclaim every time she sang "The Peony Pavilion", but she always felt that her singing was lacking in soul. One day I heard a blind man singing the same tune on the street, and the desolation struck my heart and lungs. Yutang paid a lot of money to ask for advice, but the blind man refused. The truth was revealed just before she died: this tune was the tune she changed after her senior brother who wrote plays for her
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Impression and Wind
Archaeologists discovered ancient pottery fragments in the desert that could record the sound of wind. When they listened closely every night, they always heard the same woman calling "Ah". He spent ten years deciphering the voiceprint, and finally saw the answer in the microscopic notches on the inner wall of the pottery piece - it was a love letter written by the pottery girl three thousand years ago to the god of wind. And all the strong winds whistling by are repeatedly responding to the uns
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Paint My Dream Poem
The down-and-out poet moored at Green Grass Lake at night, drunk and alone on the bow. Seeing the stars pouring into the lake, I took a boat to the sky in a trance and drank wine with the old friend in my dream. When I woke up, the morning mist was thin, and only the broken light on the water surface was left, and I knew that the most beautiful dream could not carry the sorrow of separation in the world.
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Buzhou Mountain's Dreams and Stars
The lonely starkeeper has lived for generations on the top of Buzhou Mountain where the legendary pillar of heaven was broken, observing the stars with bronze mirrors. He discovered that every meteor would emit a mysterious beam of light to the top of the mountain before falling to the ground, and finally realized that the mountain was a recycling station for galactic memories. When he resolutely activated the ancestral device, he turned himself into the last light and shot into the deep space -
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North of Jianghuai South
Taking the Huaihe River as the context, it tells the story of Qiluo, an embroiderer from the south of the Yangtze River, and Zefan, a scholar from the north of the Yangtze River, who met by chance due to rain and fell in love by fate. The two transcended geographical and family differences between the north and the south. They endured divorce, war and poverty, and always stayed true to their love. In the end, the family members were transformed with their true feelings, and they got married unde
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Hello, Little Comet
Astronomers tracked a comet that was about to hit the earth, but found that its orbit showed strange and intelligent corrections. When he deciphered the signals that were continuously emitted from the interior of the comet, they turned out to be all the deleted digital memories of human civilization. It turned out that there was a tomb deep in the universe, which was dedicated to collecting the last goodwill deleted by each civilization before its self-destruction.
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Customized Space
A boy from a poor family worked hard for twenty years and finally became the president of a listed company. He returned home wearing a luxurious custom-made suit, only to find that the entire village was deserted. Finally, he found the villagers in the abandoned primary school - they were using the donation he sent to watch the satellite live broadcast brought by the volunteer teacher: "Let the world see this" he carved on the desk back then was shining in space through the aerospace lens.
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Hutong Old Street
A stubborn old street photographer uses an old-fashioned camera to record the hutongs that are about to be demolished. After the photos were developed, there were always blurry figures, and investigation revealed that they were folklorists who disappeared sixty years ago—whose soul was trapped in the final unfinished alley file. When the bulldozers approached, he raised his camera to take the last panoramic shot. The figures in all the photos smiled clearly and disappeared peacefully as the phot
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Small and Perfect
It tells the story of two souls meeting in the midsummer of May. He played the guitar and sang his longing, while she read poetry and books under the starlight, enjoying the breeze of catkins and the drizzle of jasmine. They don't care about profits and losses, they only believe in growth, see beauty in imperfections, and find peace of mind in small perfections. Each other becomes the moonlight that illuminates the darkness and has faith in each other. There are countless tomorrows hidden in the
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Chicago Has No Sea
An old Ukrainian immigrant carpenter used oak wood to build sailboats in his apartment all his life. His neighbors laughed at him for being stuck inland but dreaming of sailing. On a stormy night, he opened the window and the whole community was shocked - all the furniture floated. It turned out that he had quietly replaced every nail with cork for many years. Everyone took this "land boat" and started the most romantic night voyage on the bright streets.
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Qinyuan Spring Ode
An old Suzhou luthier has spent his life guarding the lost ancient Southern Song song "Qinyuan Chun" and refuses all commercial recordings. When he was critically ill, a company used an algorithm to perfectly restore the score, but he tremblingly modified the last note. The disciples later discovered that the "wrong" note was the ticking sound of the rain eaves when he first met his late wife when he was young. It turns out that the most precious inheritance is never the perfection of the score,
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Fox Debt
In order to repay his kindness, the thousand-year-old fox traveled across time and space to find his reincarnated lover. The misunderstanding and betrayal in the palace intrigues in her previous life left her heartbroken and frozen; in this modern business war, she once again accompanied her lover in trouble to start a business from scratch, but she was bullied by her family and framed by a third party, and her marriage collapsed. After awakening, she was reborn from nirvana, counterattacked the
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The Remaining Lotus Leaves Are Left to Listen to the Sound of Rain
The blind old boatman guarded a pond of dead lotus and looked forward to rain every day. The neighbor boy was puzzled. He laughed and said that the sound of rain hitting lotus leaves was his late wife's favorite music. During the war, he bid farewell to his lover who was serving in the army by this pool and agreed to take the sound of rain as his letter. For sixty years, what he heard was not the rain, but the reunion that had never failed through war and time.
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Me and You in the Morning and Evening Line
After the earth stopped rotating, the world was divided into eternal day and night. A boy from the day world and a girl from the eternal night world meet through an underground tunnel and discover that each other's heartbeats can weakly push the earth. They decided to embrace at the junction of the dawn and dusk lines - for an instant the earth's axis trembled, and the two turned into eternally rotating particles of light, becoming the first ray of dawn to restart the world.
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A Calendar from Sixty Years Ago
The lonely old man tore off his calendar paper and folded it into animals every day, and was laughed at by his neighbors. After his death, thousands of paper cranes and paper horses appeared in the house, each containing the longitude, latitude and date in their belly - those were the burial coordinates and death anniversary of his fallen comrades. The last paper crane points to a park in Seoul.
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Qinghai Lakeside
A retired ecologist returned to Qinghai Lake and found that the holy blue lake in his memory was surrounded by garbage. He met a Tibetan girl who stubbornly picked up garbage. The two went from arguing to joining hands to protect the pure land in the most primitive way. In the end, their actions touched the tourists, and a wave of spontaneous cleaning was set off on the lakeside - the glimmer of mortal light finally turned into a sea of stars.
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Note Usage Rights
Archaeologist Levi discovered a notebook made of human skin in an ancient tomb. The curse words on it claimed that those who come into contact will realize their deepest desires and will also witness the tragic death of their loved ones. That night, his wife died mysteriously. Obsessed, he began to decipher the text, eager to win back his lover, but gradually discovered that all the clues pointed to a terrible ritual that had been hidden for thousands of years and sacrificed life, and he himself
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No Illness, No Slowness
In a future where the entire city is implanted with efficiency chips, only the old watchmaker refuses to upgrade. When the city was paralyzed due to system overclocking, everyone discovered that all the clocks in his store were still accurate - it turned out that he had used the "inefficient" technology of chip rejection all his life to turn every moment of customers' gaze into clockwork. In the end, the whole city restarted with the sound of his unhurried gears.
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Kilimanjaro in December
The dying legendary mountaineer returns to Africa and insists on climbing Kilimanjaro solo in the harshest month of December. He finally discovered on the peak in the snowstorm: in front of the tomb of his opponent who was buried here twenty years ago, people used the latest mountaineering equipment to pay tribute every year. It turned out that the son of the opponent he had been chasing all his life had been using his name to inspire disabled people around the world to touch the sky.
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The Boy in Potala Palace
It tells the story of fifteen-year-old Tashi, the youngest painting monk in the palace, who repairs murals day and night, but always hears faint singing from the outside world while chanting sutras. One night he met a street rock boy following the sound, and his guitar melody resonated strangely with the ancient Buddhist chants. The two collaborated secretly, composed the scriptures into new songs, and completed a dialogue that spanned thousands of years outside the palace wall in the morning li
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