Night slowly descended. In the grass, the insects chirped incessantly, rising and falling.
Two mosquitoes rested on the grass leaves.
The male mosquito sipped a drop of grass juice, gently nudged the sulking female mosquito standing stiffly, and softly coaxed:
“Darling, just take a sip. You haven't eaten or drunk all day, I'm really worried…”
The female mosquito disdainfully glanced at the dew-covered grass leaf and said unhappily:
“How can I eat something so bland and tasteless? You keep talking every day, don't you get tired?”
“Do you really want to go against humans?” the male mosquito anxiously looked at her.
“You don't know how many methods humans have prepared against us. I get dizzy just smelling their scent, and if you were to…”
“You're a coward, you know that?” the female mosquito coldly looked at him. Then she flapped her wings and flew away from him.
The male mosquito anxiously watched the light coming from the people's windows. He knew she was inside.
He didn't know why, but tonight he had a particularly bad premonition, which made his body shiver continuously as he perched on the leaf.
He really wanted to see her, to know she was safe, even though he couldn't suppress her ambition to drink human blood.
Suddenly, he sorrowfully realized that this very thing might destroy both of them.
The dew grew heavier, he felt cold, yet she still did not come out.
He thought of their past lives, not as two mosquitoes, but as two penguins.
Living in the icy snow, spending every day happily, walking with graceful, composed gentlemanly steps.
Back then, he was the finest penguin. Deeply in love with her.
Like all penguins preparing to propose, he tirelessly went searching for a pebble.
He traveled long distances, discarding one unsatisfactory stone after another,
And when he finally found the most exquisite, smooth pebble, even after bleeding from falls, he felt that only this one was worthy of her.
But she married another penguin. That penguin picked up the stones he had thrown, the rough, imperfect ones, but many of them, piled up abundantly.
He withdrew, heartbroken, yet followed her into this life, willingly accompanying her as a mosquito.
He was tormented by a heart-wrenching wait, risking his life to fly into the human window.
Sure enough, he saw her, lying on someone's arm, head buried in sucking, her blue wings trembling gently.
And to his horror, he saw the "person" whose left arm hadn't moved was quietly raising his right hand...... "Quick—dodge!~~~~" He screamed in agony, but it was too late; she curled up in pain and fell to the ground. He flew close to her, kneeling beside her blood-stained body, tears streaming down his face. She struggled to open her eyes and looked at him, quietly shedding tears as well, "What a pity, what a pity...... "You ruined both of us......" He tried to help her up, who was covered in blood, "Why do you always refuse to listen to my advice?" "I know...... But I have no ...... Because, because I am pregnant with your child...... It needs nutrition...... There isn't enough grass juice, I have to suck blood...... I know I will die, but you will keep living. Humans will not hurt you because you did not offend them...... "She briefly showed her dying eyes and smiled: "Actually, after having a child, I would exhaust myself to the point of death, but this is our responsibility as mothers...... Even if it means enduring the scorn of thousands, we must provide the best for our descendants...... This is something we can't help ......"
"Why? Why didn't you tell me earlier?" "
"I know you care about me. If I told you, you would have done it for me, then you would be the one dying right now...... I couldn't bear to ...... If I could have a child for you, I wouldn't have any regrets...... I owed you in a past life, and now I want to repay you, but I owe you even more...... In our past life, we were penguins. Actually, I always loved you, but I married him...... Because he gave me so many stones, did you know? We live in a freezing world. If we don't have enough stones to nest and hatch, our offspring will freeze to death before hatching...... The stone you gave me is beautiful, crystal clear, but that's love. Pure love can't support a long-lasting marriage or responsibility to children...... I didn't marry you, do you hate me? He shook his head desperately, sobbing uncontrollably. "It's my fault, I didn't protect you, couldn't give you everything you needed, and made you suffer like this...... In the next life, shall we be mantises?On our wedding night, you ate me, gave birth to my child... dying in your womb, I would surely be very happy...”\ “No, no, let's still be two cicadas, okay? Drinking the dew every day, happily singing songs... careful, careful...” The smile quickly drained from her face, she was gasping heavily, tears streaming down in torrents, “Go quickly, someone's coming...”\ He looked back once, showing a desolate yet unregretful smile, “Silly child... weren't we going to be cicadas together?”\ “Smack!” A crisp sound, accompanied by a satisfied voice, “Hmph, killed another stinky mosquito!”\ In the moment before he died, he held her tightly. Their blood mixed together, forming a single drop of bright red tear.