[A river of Hades]

Two seconds later, she jumped up, changed direction and knelt on the bed. Using her left hand to cover her mouth, she tried hard to widen her eyes, acting as if in disbelief.

“Wake up…Don’t scare me…Wake up, wake up!”

Right now, she was Shinobibe.

Shinobibe knelt on the floor, shaking her head. Her eyes filled with tears, she cried again and again, “I don’t believe it, I don’t believe it, you are lying to me, you are lying to me!”

……

Yu mama brought a hot cup of Colacao* over, she was about to push open the door but her hand paused mid-air. Her mouth twitched and finally, she sighed and left. She walked into Yu Zhou Zhou’s grandmother’s room and looked at the bottle of salt water on the metal frame, “Mom, we can pull out the syringe needle in about five minute’s time.”

[I assume these are some magic words she calls out to change]

She skilfully put her magic to good use and changed into a small rabbit. Yu Zhou Zhou used her front teeth to bite her bottom lip to make a rabbit face. Then, she hopped around on the bed, passing through the grasslands in her mind that stretches as far as the eye can see.

“Finally…I’ve arrived.”

She stood up and without the slightest fear, stared at the terrifying Demon King who was grinning hideously in front of her.

The Demon King put his hands on his hips and gave a bellyful of laughter, “Hahahaha, my heartless and cunning trick has been discovered by you. But no matter, your doomsday is already here, oh hahaha….”

Yu Zhou Zhou changed back, she held the bottle close to her chest, “You, you, you……You go die!”

It didn’t seem right.

“You……” Yu Zhou Zhou put down the bottle and frowning, started to seriously think about what she, as a solitary hero, should say.

“The days of you doing whatever you want are over. Be awakened, watch me right your wrongs.”

Outside, her mom’s voice suddenly called out.

Yu Zhou Zhou smiled and her eyes squeezed into two pretty crescent moons, “Thanks mom.”

“……You’re welcome.”

“Ha, the days of you doing whatever you want are over. Be awakened, watch me right your wrongs!!!” Yu Zhou Zhou shouted. She raised her leg and gave a beautiful circle kick. Then, she got into a fighting pose, dodged, did a side tumble, jumped, bent over……

The small room reverberated with strange muffled sounds.

Finally, she jumped up and grabbed the feather duster off the hook on the wall. Like a Japanese warrior, she held it with two hands. First, she drew a circle with it in the air, then, taking a deep breath, she struck down!

After completing this move, she immediately turned around and knelt on the bed, covering her forehead with her hands. She shouted in disbelief: “How? How did I lose to you? I don’t believe it, I don’t believe it, I- don’t- believe- it-”

……

Mama Yu was helping grandma pull out the syringe needle as she heard the final loud muffled bang in the small room. After she finished feeding Yu Zhou Zhou’s grandma the rice porridge, she was about to take the bowl to the kitchen to wash it, but as she walked past the small room, she heard the sound of a sad and shrill cry.

Didn’t she defeat the Demon King, why was she still crying? She stopped and put her eat to the door, secretly listening.

“Heroine*, heroine, don’t die…….”

*[She is referring to Chief of the Red Flower Sect in the Book and Sword by Jin Yong]

“Chief!” A shrill ‘female’ voice.

Yu Zhou Zhou imitated five different voices in one breath to create the impression of all the people crying at once.

Wasn’t she just a heroine, how did she turn into chief? Mama Yu frowned and continued to listen.

Yu Zhou Zhou started singing the theme song to ‘White Browed Hero’.

Mama Yu couldn’t listen any further, anymore and Yu Zhou Zhou would probably start re-enacting the advertisements after the ending song. Mama Yu shook her head. She walked to the kitchen and opened the tap, the sound of the water covering Yu Zhou Zhou’s little theatre.

At this age, she couldn’t even go to kindergarten or play with friends.

But it couldn’t be helped.

It couldn’t be helped, Zhou Zhou. Mom also has no solutions, please don’t blame mom.

As Mama Yu thought about it, tears started falling, mixing with the tap water in the sink.

Generation after generation, life was just like a spinning top, moving back and forth, round and round.