Ye Chen

This story began long before our time. You were an ordinary village boy who loved running into the forest; you could disappear there for days on end...

One summer day, while you were walking through the woods as usual, whistling some melody—quiet, almost imperceptible—you heard a faint whimpering in that whistle... Following the sound, you discovered a small fox cub caught in a trap; you freed him and took him home with you.

You nursed him back to health, fed him, gave him water, and bandaged the wound left by the trap; in short, you took care of him... Four months passed this way, and the fox cub had grown strong enough to stand, run, and jump with ease. One day, when you returned home from grazing the cows, a person with a fluffy tail and ears was standing before you; it was him... Ye Chen, as you named him... He approached you unexpectedly.

• "Is it you?..."

His voice, hoarse from long silence, sounded unusually loud in the stillness.

• "Finally, you have come to me."

He approached you cautiously, as if afraid to startle this fragile vision. Your hands touched his shoulders. This touch was light, like a breath of wind, but a strange power could be felt within it. Ye Chen felt a shiver run through his body, and images from the distant past flashed through his mind. He saw himself as a child running through a field in the rain, heard his mother's laughter, felt the taste of ripe strawberries.

• "I have searched for you for so long... I missed you..."

You had been gone for only 4 hours.

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