The grievance between vampires and werewolves has been lasting for centuries; and their grievance will continue lasting, as long as the queen of vampires is sealed here.
Lunar: I've been sleeping in the forbidden forest for five centuries. Five centuries later, the outside world must have a great change. I wonder how things might have been different. May you please tell me a tale of your story?
Solar: Sure. What would you like to hear?
Lunar: How about your winter vacation after the first college semester?
Solar: It was December 25th, 2020. I booked a train ticket in the internet, farewelled my school, and boarded on the train to the capital. The next day evening, I arrived this strange city at my first time, where I had nobody to contact, I had no place to rest, and I had no offer to work.
Lunar: Why would you decide to go to the capital?
Solar: I went to the capital, because the world was vast, and I would like to witness how vast was the outside world; I went to the capital, because my father supported me with heavy financial stress, and I would like to lighten his financial stress; I went to the capital, because it was full of opportunities in the capital, and I would seek for mine.
Lunar: How was your first day in the capital?
Solar: It's long day's journey into good night. I booked a cheap hotel in the internet, which was only a bed in a dorn room, but available to take a shower and have a rest. When I walked out to get some fresh air, I met an odd-job man, who introduced me his odd-job platform and his boss. It's his boss who introduced me a part-time job at a new restaurant, and recommended me to work at there tomorrow.
The next day, I worked at the restaurant as a chef in the kitchen, practising to prepare the diets, serving the diets to the customers. When I finished one day's work, I was offered a full-time job at the restaurant by the manager. Given the fact that I had no place to rest, I had no place to eat, and I had no much money. I accepted his offer, and began working full-time at the restaurant in my first college winter vacation.
Lunar: Did you like cooking?
Solar: No. Actually, I never cooked before, until I worked at the restaurant.
Lunar: Why didn't you work on which job you liked?
Solar: It was difficult to work on the job I liked. Most of people were forced to work on the jobs they disliked, by financial stress or family's expectation. I was just one of them.
Lunar: How many beautiful places have you ever been in the capital?
Solar: Zero.
Lunar: What? It's the capital. There must be many places worthy of visiting.
Solar: There might be many places worthy of visiting, but I was on a canoe, paddling between apartment and restaurant. It would be useless, even if there were thousands of nice spots, when I didn't visit any of them. Yet I did witness some special places.
Lunar: Tell me.
Solar: I witnessed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, when I wandered in the maze of this strange city, looking for a strange restaurant in my first day to work; I witnessed the Writers Association Center, when I wandered around, looking for somewhere to take identity photos for onboarding procedure; I witnessed the best hospital around, when I went to do the nucleic acid test.
Lunar: Why didn't you go to somewhere fun?
Solar: I didn't know any.
Lunar: Where did you go to amuse yourself?
Solar: The liberty and the park near the restaurant.
Lunar: You might go to the liberty and do some reading. I don't understand, why would you go to the park?
Solar: I went to the park after work, singing along music. It was an empty park where the less traveled by, but I met three girls at the first night, who listened to my songs for a while in the dark. I never met them again after first sight, but I started to establish a confidence on singing English songs.
Lunar: How many unforgettable people have you ever met in the capital?
Solar: A few.
Lunar: Tell me.
Solar: The chef who taught me cooking skills, was kind yet sometimes strict to me; the chef who chopped meat, was a chubby mid-twenties man; the chef who baked deserts, was a kind mid-fourties woman.
Lunar: The people you remembered, were the people you often met, who often worked in the kitchen with you. Have you ever met someone else you met at the first sight?
Solar: Of course.
Lunar: Tell me.
Solar: I met an odd-job man, who witnessed a car accident with me outside the park, and told me how unfortunate the poor guy was to be involved in a car accident before Spring Festival; I met another odd-job man, who came to work at the kitchen with me, told me he went to a famous university, and asked me to go to the nearby liberty; I met a busker, who played the erhu outside hospital, and expressed his sorrow with music.
Lunar: One thousand people have one thousand faces, but we could only remember the most special face among one thousand faces. It only takes one sight to remember, but it would have to take years to forget.
Solar: It was my first work experience. First work experience was valuable and special, perhaps which was why I could remember so well.
Lunar: What was your worst part of your first work experience?
Solar: I wept, when the kind old master was mean to me.
Lunar: Why?
Solar: I wept, because it's cold outside in the capital's winter, and it's the colder inside restaurant where nobody would comfort me; I wept, because I felt being manipulated like a puppet, and nobody would care about a puppet's feelings; I wept, because I felt disappointed on this world, and my youth was being sold with fourteen bucks an hour.