But she said that if I picked up her mouth, the mouth would become stupid and would no longer tell stories, just like the stupid mouth on me.
I heard that people could raise other things as pets, so I decided to take her as my human pet.
One day, she told me that there were many stories in the outside world, and that she could bring them back for me.
So I gave her some sap, allowing her to walk freely, and waited for her to return.
Actually, I knew she wouldn't come back. I had already become a tree with a brain, and I knew when people were lying. She wanted to go home.
But I was a very good tree. The human had told me many stories, so I decided to let her go back.
She told me that her name was Lan Yin..."
Lan Yin?
Jiang You abruptly raised her head. "Her name was Lan Yin?"
"Yes! At the time, I wanted to ask her why people had different names, but she said she would tell me the answer when she came back next time."
"What happened after that?"
"After that, I thought she wouldn't come back, but she returned after I had only slept once.
But this time, she looked very strange. My beautiful, smooth human pet was covered in ugly scars, as though someone had torn her apart and stitched her back together piece by piece.
Her originally sparkling eyes no longer shone, either.
Her eyes had broken. Water kept flowing from them, and my brain told me that people called this crying.
My human pet must have been bullied outside by someone else's human pet. She said she liked the moon, and that the moon here was very beautiful. She no longer called