Monster living alone in the mountains for hundreds of years. One day came a boy, his monster, said: “Come and play, I have no friends.” Monster to be offended, it is toward the fire-breathing boy. The boy laughed: “You’re fun!” Boy on a daily look at fire-breathing monster, the boy was no longer there, monsters, ah, etc., for the first time feel lonely and sad. Thus, the monsters hide in the mountains, after the decision had never seen human beings.

Therefore, human loneliness and sadness is contagious.
(Hao Cuiying from “Little Selected Novels” No. 8 of 2011)