Super Short Story, "The Faces and Rhythms of Fate". 2 Feb 2025. Black Rooster Time - Dragon Interval (Dragon & Snake call the show for last year and this year with Covered Lamp Fire.)

 Super Short Story, "The Faces and Rhythms of Fate"

1. Characters:

   • Tianlai Xiaozi: The cosmic wanderer, a bridge between time and space.

   • Five Elemental Heroes: Personifications of the Five Phases, commanding the divine beasts of the five directions.

   • Six Rhythmic Beauties: Embodiments of the Six Qi, dancing gracefully at six temporal points, painting time’s passage with their presence.

2. Setting:

   • A singularity where time and space intertwine, the birthplace of all cycles.

   • Five elemental terrains ruled by the heroes, each sculpting the world through their unique faces.

   • Six fleeting moments, where the ethereal beauties weave the rhythm of existence.

3. The Dance of Destiny:
   Tianlai Xiaozi, armed with the wisdom of the ages, traverses through the wormhole of the Five Phases and Six Qi. He is the celestial matchmaker, weaving red threads between the elemental heroes and rhythmic beauties, awakening the memories of their preordained vows—a bond of wood and stone, of destiny written in the cosmic currents. Now, in the present age, they must reunite, not as echoes of a forgotten past, but as kindred spirits forging an unbreakable golden fate.

4. The Grand Union:
   On the day of their joyous reunion, where yin and yang harmonize in celestial celebration, Tianlai Xiaozi transcends the final barrier. He shatters the illusion of separateness, emerging into ultimate enlightenment. The labyrinth of fate dissolves before his newfound clarity.

5. The Vow Beyond Cycles:
   Yet, instead of vanishing into the void, Tianlai Xiaozi steps back into the cycle—not as a prisoner of fate, but as its master. Hand in hand with the elemental heroes and rhythmic beauties, he makes an eternal vow:

   "Not until all suffering beings find their way shall we rest. Not until every tear is wiped away shall we cease our journey. This life, this eternity—we walk together."

Thus, the Five Phases continue their eternal transformation, the Six Qi dance through time, and Tianlai Xiaozi, now awakened, guides them all toward a destiny beyond mere fate—a destiny of boundless liberation.