Dear Diary,
Please let me go! I’ve been here for a long time. Luckily, I still have the abilities of speaking, listening
and writing diary entries, after becoming a brick of the Great Wall. But when can I go home? When can I see
Xin… It’s so horrible to be alone here. There is nobody. The only thing left here is the grassland. It’s so cold.
It’s so quiet. I’m scared… Can anybody help me…
Dear Diary
Days have been hard recently, without Zi. I don’t know whether I can go on… I’m exhausted. It seems
that I’m just a living dead. Zi, where are you? When will you come back? I miss you so much. Please don’t
leave me…
Chapter Six The lesson
One day, Zi saw a huge group of strong men coming. The fear in his deep heart was rising. A soldier
standing on the fire beacon tower yelled, ‘It’s the Huns! It’s the Huns!’ A war began. General Meng Tian led a
three hundreds thousand-strong army to fight against the Huns. Zi ‘stood’ firm and concentrated. He had always
wanted to meet the Huns. He saw people fighting, hurting one another, crying for help, and death. He was truly
afraid. He had never even imagined these cruel scenes in his life. He kept on watching…
To the Huns’ utter amazement, the Great Wall was much stronger than they had imagined. In the end, the
Chinese army repelled the Huns.
Chapter Seven The diary entries III
Dear Diary,
I understand now. The elderly are avoiding us from contacting with the cruel world since they wanted to
protect us and maintain the peace and harmony in the village. I was wrong… I should listen to the elderly. The
village is the best! I have already had all the things I want. I have to be mature!
Dear Diary,
Sometimes, I asked myself whether I have wasted these years. The answer is nope. Absolutely not. I’ve
spent ten years to prove that I truly love Zi, and I don’t consider waiting for him as a difficult job now. I’m glad
to have met Zi. I’m glad to love him. I want to wait for him, no matter how long.
Chapter Eight Wide Awake
On the Great Wall, the leaves were blown up again. Yang appeared.
‘
It’s over…’ Zi took a deep breath, and shut his eyes.
‘
It’s not over yet,’ Zi opened his eyes and saw Yang.
‘
I can see you change. Remember at first you didn’t even like the village? See how things go now. You
now know how good your home and the village are. Look at your diary entries. You’ve changed.’
At that moment, Zi could not stop his tear falling. He realized he had lived hard these ten years. He
realized how much he missed Xin. He realized he was once a human.
‘
It can be over now. Take a nap…and go,’ Yang disappeared then. Zi smiled, and slept.
Chapter Nine Replenish the love
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A continued love story
The wind blew, and awakened Zi. He opened one of his eyes, seeing the beautiful blue sky. ‘I’m back!’ shouted
Zi. He tried to stand up and walk although he had almost forgotten how. He rushed to the forest and tried to seek
for the way home. However, life was never easy. He was lost.
‘
No. Zi, don’t give up. You can’t die here. GO AND FIND XIN!’
He climbed the mountains. He crossed the rivers. He walked round and round the forest. On the third time
the sun rose after Zi had become a human again, he eventually got to the village. He noticed that his room was
very tidy and there were a lot of flowers in his garden. He believed that it must be Xin keeping everything well
for him. He went to the garden and picked a daisy before he went to Xin’s hut.
He knocked on the door. ‘WHO IS it…’ Xin was shocked.
‘
I’m back,’
Xin cried and hugged Zi tightly. ‘You’re back. You’re back… You’re back eventually…’
‘
I’m sorry Xin. Don’t cry.’
‘
Where have you been…’
‘
It’s a long story. But I’ve changed. Trust me. I’ll show you. I’m mature now. I mature to be your… I…’
‘
To be my what?’ Xin was still hugging Zi tightly.
Zi took out a ring made of a daisy from his pocket, let go Xin’s arms, and took a deep breath.
‘
Can you marry me?’
Since then, Zi had realized that he already had all he wanted, his home, his lover, the peaceful village...
The little lovely couple build a new hut with a lovely garden. They lived happily ever after, without prying
about the outside world, without questioning the elderly, in the Great Wall.
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