In fact, she hates any holiday, every holiday where she needs to stay in the crowd.
Moon has very pretty eyes.
Because of these eyes, since she was a little girl, her mother's favorite way to lead her out of the house was to proudly show her daughter to everyone, and she always got a frothy compliment in return.
"Aiya, this little girl is really beautiful, look at her big watery eyes."
"Your daughter is so pretty, especially her eyes, I don't know how many boys will like her when she grows up."
Mom immediately put on an embarrassed expression, "Where where where, you guys don't praise her again, children can't be praised."
Only Yue herself knew she was different, she was different from everyone else.
"Yue, you are a monster, I never want to play with you again." Wei was the first little boy to say this to her.
She was five years old that year, and it was the Tanabata Festival.
She and Xiaowei ran out while it was dark, and not far from the garden ran a wild cat, a dirty little cat with beautiful eyes.
"Let's go feed the cat, that cat is beautiful." Xiaowei took her hand and shook the red sausage in his other hand.
On the bench by the flowerbed sat a couple, cuddling together, speaking words neither she nor Xiaowei could understand, but their words made the kitten hide far away and dare not come out.
Yue and Xiaowei only had to squat by a flower bed, holding a stone on the ground to draw pictures and wait for them to finish speaking.
"Feng, look at the moon tonight, the moon is as bright as water is like this, right, silver glory leaks the ground, must also shine in front of the cowherd and the weaving maiden that the Milky Way," the girl's voice more than a few points of lonesome, "Feng, you'll be gone in a few days, and it's like there is a river between us, too. "
"Li, this look at this bright moon, even if we are separated, in different places, but a look up, we still look at the same color of the moon, the same bright, the same white moonlight, as if we are still together like tonight."
Moon looked up at the sky and she frowned in confusion.
"Wei, do you think the moon in the sky is pretty?" Moon pointed to the moon in the sky as she squatted and watched the kitten eat.
Xiaowei raised his head, inclined his head to look at it for half a day, and squeaked, "Pretty, isn't it, it's white and quite bright."
"But what I see is red, as red as blood." Moon said softly.
"No way, how can the moon be red, it's clearly white." Wei retorted.
"But what I see is red." Yue also said stubbornly.
"You. Then what color did you say the cat was?" Wei said in exasperation.
"Red, red like the moon." Moon said as she stroked the kitten's head.
"It's clearly a white one," Wei said in exasperation, "Moon, you're a monster."
"Moon, you're a monster, and I'm never going to play with you again." These were the last words Moon heard from Xiaowei that night.
Soon Xiaowei's family moved away, and Yue never told anyone again that the only color in her world was red.
Dad and mom left after a big fight and never came back.
Mom still took her out every day, embarrassed to excuse herself in a chorus of praise, smiling.
Moon quietly stood aside, without saying a word.
She avoided the crowd, avoided the party, avoided all the festivals, especially the Tanabata Festival, she secretly laughed to herself: the cowherd and the weaving maiden looked at the blood like the Milky Way, I am afraid that they will be too shocked, and do not dare to cross the river again.
She hated painting, she refused to discuss color with others, to avoid the color blindness check, even if it will not graduate.
She can readily memorize all the descriptions of others, and she only chooses white clothes.
Strong was the first boy to pursue her.
On the night of the eve of the seventh moon, he told her that she was as beautiful as an angel, that her eyes were the brightest stars in the sky.
"Strong, what color do you think the moon is in the sky?" Yue asks, pointing to the blood-red moon in the sky.
"White, bright as the moon, as beautiful as you are." Strong said with a mesmerized look on his face.
"No, it is red, as red as blood." Moon said as she turned her head to look at him quietly.
"How can that be, Moon, I didn't think you could joke." Jon waved his hand and laughed in disbelief.
"I'm telling the truth, your clothes are as red as that moon." Yue turned her head again to look at the blood-red moon in the sky and murmured, "Isn't a red moon beautiful?"
"You. You're a monster." Strong threw down a sentence and walked away.
It was the second time Moon had heard someone call her a monster, and she looked down and smiled fondly.
Her mom pulled her in front of the mirror again to change into her new white dress.
"My daughter is so pretty, especially these eyes, much prettier than those Netflix who wear false eyelashes, pupils and makeup. Yue'er ah, tomorrow our club has a performance activity, you have to accompany mom to go ah."
Moon turned her head and looked at the eyes full of prayer and pride that were still clear in a blood red color, and nodded with a smile.
Yue suddenly liked the Tanabata Festival.
She fell in love with the expression on other people's faces.
The look of shock on the face of the man who confessed his love to her when he heard about the blood-red moon.
She even liked the way the man said "monster" as he threw his head back and left, only to be met by the sound of her laughing out loud.
Tanabata became her happiest holiday.
Last year's Tanabata, someone asked her out again.
Yue thought that Tanabata is really a good day ah, confessions have to come together on this day.
Zhi is a colleague of the month, the two in a company **** thing for two years, which is also the month stayed the longest of a company.
The two sat quietly on a bench by the side of the road.
Moon turned her head and looked at him strangely, "You're not going to say anything?"
"I was wondering what the moon looks like when you see it."
Moon froze and said briskly, "The moon I see is blood red."
"I know, I was just thinking that a blood red moon must be pretty too."
"How did you know?" Moon asked in surprise.
"Because the folder I always hand you, every time I say it's red when it's really white."
"Why?" Yue looked at him a little angrily.
"Because of your beautiful eyes, I just want to know why it's always hiding."
"So you already knew, do you want to see my jokes, if you want to call me a monster, just leave when you're done." Moon growled as a sudden wave of anger rushed through her heart.
"Tsuki, I just want to know what your world is like, even though we don't see the same moon, isn't it more amazing? " Chi turned his head to look at her, gently.
"Yue, the blood red moon in your eyes must be beautiful. "
On the eve of that year, Yue cried in pain for the first time like a child.