Cat Spirit

Author: Wang Xiumei
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: All colors and sounds come from midnight. The cat's eyes flicker with amber light, a sound as if it comes from the heart of the Earth. A blood-red flower blooms in dreams, tough trunks growing from reddish-brown sand dunes, large and full petals, the color of fresh blood. A foreboding sense of dread, terror, excitement, an absolutely different feeling. Since I was nine, after experiencing my mother Bailu's wrist-cutting suicide and the melancholic death of Bailu's favored cat named Xixi, I suddenly became a girl radiating an extraordinary supernatural glow. At the age of 30, I met a girl named Xixi in my father Xie Weiyang's bar. That year, I fell in love with a middle-aged man who bore some resemblance to my father. I began to suffer inexplicable headaches, and I became increasingly immersed in my father's adoration and the pursuit of the mystery of my mother's death. A carved bronze mirror that constantly reflects mysterious images, death that was foreseen but ultimately unavoidable, the red sand grave where the mother cat Xixi was buried, opium poppies suddenly growing on the grave, a washer that makes noise at midnight, the blood constantly swirling in the washer, prophetic dreams, a sharp Mongolian hunting knife. A forlorn love is hidden beneath terror and intricate reasoning, while the surreal yet lifelike suspense intensifies and dissolves the dust on the soul's wings.