WUSHUANG TONG

A unicorn is inhabited in a forest.

He doesn’t know why he is here. He can't remember anything that happened before, just like he will not remember today in the future - from the morning is moistened by the dewdrop on the petal to the gloaming is dyed by the glow of the clouds, his memory can only last for one day.

On this ordinary day, the unicorn finds a girl in a red cloak floating by the river.

 Although he doesn’t care about her life, but with his omniscience, he knows the mammal with two less hairy legs should not be left in the water.

Without using much effort, the unicorn drags her ashore and saves her.

"Human, I will look after you." The unicorn thinks that he needs to talk to her at the moment.

He knows that “look after” is the special needs of human beings. The baby elephant knows how to drag mother's tail to walk; The newborn fish knows how to swim immediately. But humans need to be looked after.

He should have remembered that in this forest with only one unicorn, the girl and he were the closest companion. They crossed the grassy wilderness. On that day, the girl held six randomly-picking red cattails. The plants passing by on the road had three hundred forty-two thousand three hundred and ninety-two colors. The wind blew seven times and once blew off the hat on her cloak.

He should have remembered that they hunted in the forest. The unicorn, which only needs moonlight and water, was not surprised by the appetite of human beings. The mist they saw when they set out in the early morning, dispersed after fifty-two minutes. The girl’s braid had sixteen knots. Even carried the best bow and arrow didn't prevent her from not hitting any of the prey. On the way back, she was careful, but her left foot was still stepping into a puddle. So the forty-one traces of mud on her skirt became the only harvest of this hunting.

The girl liked unicorn. This kind of like made her lazy. She was good at running, but since she can ride the unicorn as a horse, why she  supposed to use her own legs? "ride?" The unicorn can't feel he like or dislike the behavior that only humans can think of, so he let her do whatever she wanted.

He just didn't care at all. The weight he can carry depends entirely on the weight of this thing in his heart. The unicorn had no feelings, thus the towering hill was as heavy as the cloud of dust, thus the endless grassland is as heavy as a fluttering stem. Because the girl meant nothing to his heart, so she was as light as air on his back.

Once, they trekked for a long time, trying to reach a castle that was impossible to reach. The unicorn had already known the result before they go, but since the girl had an extraordinary enthusiasm for it, they go.

 "Do you know how many hairs are there in your tail?"

"Now it has one hundred five thousand eight hundred sixteen."

"I want twenty of them to make strings."

"No."

"You have so many! They are only a little of the fractions of yours."

"They are 0.00012657% of mine."

"That's it! I want them!"

"No."

 In this way, the girl's weight in his heart was as same as the moon. However, the unicorn didn't know what was the meaning. In his world, as long as the night falls on the clouds, the moon that has been hanging in the sky since the first species on the Earth exist always shines on him. No matter how far the distance between the moon and the scenery surrounded the unicorn, no matter how isolated the moon looks like, the moonlight never breaks its promise - shines on the unicorn every night. The only moon that may be dim or bright in this universe, even if it is a matter of life and death, it was too familiar to attract his attention. The girl was like the moon.

Years by years, they were companions. On the first hundredth full moon night the unicorn saw, the faint glow that only appeared when he was young in his body faded away. From now on, he has eternal life.

 The unicorn noticed the mountain fire before it arrived. But the girl was not around: she went alone by the river to find a unicorn-shaped stone. The unicorn knew how weak a human was in front of the violent nature, so he headed toward the river – through the vines intertwined in the jungle, through the shoals that cross the high tide, and through the plains that can see the distant fire. “She is waiting for me," he thought.

"For yourself, you can do whatever you want, right?"

"Yes."

"Forget everything happened before. Don't remember anything in the future."

"Ok." The unicorn said.  He had long been used to agreeing to all the requests of the girl.

So the unicorn immediately forgot all, including the girl. He will be no memory in the future.

The unicorn saved the girl. However, the mind of this most incredible creature in the world was not shaken by her awakening.  He  can't remember anything that happened before, just like he won't remember today in the future.

Therefore, the girl decides to stay.

She is willing to let the unicorn know her again every day.

"Because there is only one dearest you in the world."