The Day You Vanished with the Stars/Story

=Stargazing Notes=
==1. Star Pavilion==
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Imperial Year □□, Qixi.
This Star Pavilion was recently built as the venue for the annual prayers for good harvests on Qixi, and a place for people to watch lanterns and enjoythe festival.
The building looks nice, and lantern lights are beautiful. But the rituals are so lengthy and complicated. I heard that one of our royal musicians had even invented a dance for the prayers…
Ugh. I am not going to do that boring dance. I have to think of a way to get out of this.
==2. Strange Girl==
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Imperial Year □□, Qixi.
I met a strange girl today.
I sneaked out of the palace and was on my way to see the Qixi lanterns, when a strange girl stopped me and claimed that I was a relative of hers. There were several men (very strong) chasing after her, and they asked me for compensation.
I didn’t want to attract guards, so I have them some money just to send them away. It turned out that the girl knocked over a shelf at a pastry stall by the road but had no money on her.
Later I learned that she sneaked out of her home for the Qixi lantern fair, just like I did… She told me that her parents who made bamboo fans for a living were very strict with her and wouldn’t let her go to the fair, so she climber over the wall and sneaked out, every year…
I cannot believe this reckless little girl just left home without bringing any money. The first time I sneaked out of the palace, I packed all Rita’s savings.
…Although she then scolded me for that for a few days…
==3. Bamboo Fans==
*Clear [The List] in Estranged Stars first.
Imperial Year □□, Qixi.
I met that strange girl again this year. It seemed that she got herself in trouble again, and was being scolded by a shopkeeper. She looked relieved the second she saw me, so I had to save her with money again.
She insisted on paying me back – by borrowing more money from me. I was curious. After a while, she returned with a pile of blank bamboo fans, took out a knife and carved some patterns on them.
She told passers-by that if they wrote their wishes on a bamboo fan and carried it with them all the time, their wishes would come true.
No one would believe such childish nonsense. But the girl insisted and asked me to sell the fans with her.
To my surprise, moments later, a group of people actually came to buy the fans.
Then I suddenly noticed – our “customers” were all wearing the castle guard uniforms under their coats.
I looked up, and saw Rita waving at me from the other side of the street, smiling.
In the end, I bought the rest of the bamboo fans. I picked one from them, and thought for a long time before I wrote anything on it.
…I’ll find a chance to give it to Rita, as a thank you gift.
==4. Red Bean Mochi==
*Clear [Lantern Light] in Estranged Stars first.
Imperial Year □□, Qixi.
I didn’t go to the lantern fair tonight. I caught a bad cold during the northern expedition years ago and seem to be suffering a relapse these days. Rita forced me to rest in bed.
The festive noises from the fair and the fact that I could not be a part of it tormented me.
Just when I was hatching a scheme to distract the bodyguard and sneak out, Rita suddenly came back with some red bean mochi.
They didn’t tase like the ones from Feng’s Sweet Shop that I used to have. She must have made them herself.
I’m not surprised – Rita’s mochi taste even better.
==5. The Ruins==
*Clear [The Setup] in Estranged Stars first.
Imperial Year □□, Qixi.
It’s so boring here, the ruins. I should have brought more books.
Ah… I really miss those red bean mochi from Feng’s Sweet Shop… Ooh and Smiley Face, and osmanthus pudding, lotus pie, golden milk tart, glace plum, fish-stuffed lotus bun, crab-stuffed orange…
It is a pity that I have to miss this year’s lantern fair.
Rita and Theresa must be performing the ritual on Star Pavilion at the moment.
==6. Lantern Lights==
*Clear [Fireworks] in Estranged Stars first.
Imperial Year □□, Qixi.
I don’t know when it started, but there are more and more people selling bamboo fans at the lantern fair in recent years. I cannot believe such a sloppy made-up story about attaching wishes to bamboo fans has now become a festival tradition…
I had so much fan tonight. After all these years, he finally came back to visit me again. We went to the lantern fair and watched the boat parade together, and I ate a lot of delicious snacks.
He clearly wanted to have some snacks too, but was too proud to ask. The way he stared at the snacks… so cute.
He also bought me an orchid pin, and told me to wear it for “festive mood”.
How juvenile. The festival is not about hairpins or lanterns – it’s about people getting together, putting work aside, and simply having fun at the fair in lantern lights while eating sugar figures… This is what Qixi is all about.
If only I could have a Qixi night like this every year.
=Estranged Stars=
==Faded Memories==
==Grand Seeress==
==Chess Moves==
==Lament==
==Set Adrift==
==Seven Stars==
==Impetus==
==Huodou==
==Husk==
==The List==
==Beasts==
==Plan==
==Persuasion==
==Against the Current==
==Turnaround==
==Afterword==
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