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A long, long time ago, in a castle in the deep forest, lived a beautiful girl. A girl who has always been lonely and bored, walked out of the castle one day, looking for a friend to play with. However, no matter how precious the gift she sent, no one was willing to accept her. Only later did the girl know the reason, "the monster dragging the shadow of death", people called the girl that way, she was a monster.
A girl who is angry with the world needs a person to vent her anger. One day, she saves a teenager from death, albeit unintendedly. But miraculously, after that, the black shadow that had been following her disappeared. However, the boy began to follow behind her, no matter the day or night, regardless of the mountains and fields, he always followed behind the girl. One sunny afternoon, the girl asked, "Hey, will you always stay by my side?" "Of course, I will never run away." "Isn't it possible?" the girl said, tearing a butterfly in half, and the torn corpses of butterflies were piled beside her, and the boy ran away in fright.
So, the girl became a person again, and the shadow of death came back, whispering to her: "You can't have anyone around you. Because, you are a monster. Never forget this fact. Do you know?" "Okay. Yes, Mom," the girl replied.
Episode 1 "The boy who grew up eating nightmares"
The teenager also woke up from a terrible nightmare today. The painful memories he wanted to forget in the past reappeared in his dreams every night, tormenting the teenager continuously. A boy who was afraid of falling asleep went to the witch one day and begged her bitterly. The boy said, "Witch, please delete all the bad memories in my mind so that I don't have nightmares anymore. I'll give you everything you want."
As time passed, the grown-up boy no longer had nightmares, but for some reason, he did not become happier at all. On a night when the blood moon rises, the witch finally reappears in front of the boy for the price of her wish. The boy shouted at the witch in dissatisfaction, and the boy said, "All my bad memories have been deleted, but why... why can't I be happy?" The witch took his soul as agreed. The witch told him: "Painful and painful memories, deeply regretful memories, memories of hurting others and being hurt, and memories of being abandoned, only those who live and bury these memories in the depths of their hearts can become stronger. , more enthusiastic, more resilient, and only such people can be happy.”
So don't forget, don't forget and get over the past. If you can't get over it, you're just a child with a young soul.
Episode 2 "Miss Red Shoes"
The little girl insisted on wearing those red shoes even on serious and sacred occasions. As long as you put on those red shoes, your feet will dance involuntarily, and you will never be able to stop and take off those shoes. But the little girl still resolutely did not give up the pair of red shoes. In the end, although the executioner cut off her feet, the two cut off feet still wore the red shoes and continued to dance. Some things can never be completely cut off, no matter how hard you try to cut them. This is why persistence is so noble and beautiful. I, finally found my red shoes.
Episode 3 "The Sleeping Witch in the Woods"
A long, long time ago, in a certain castle deep in the woods, lived a princess who had fallen into a deep sleep for many years. "The child will be stabbed by a spinning wheel and will die, because the day the child was born, the evil witch appeared and put a curse on her." Although the terrified king ordered spinning wheels all over the country to be burned in an attempt to prevent the curse from coming true, the princess finally Deceived by a witch in disguise, she was stabbed by a rose thorn and fell into a deep sleep. This fairy tale tells us that the predestined fate is absolutely irreversible.
Episode 4 "Zombie Kids"
In a small village, a little boy was born. The child had pale skin and very large eyes. As the little boy grew up, the mother naturally knew that this child had absolutely no emotions and was a zombie with only appetite.
So the mother avoided the eyes and ears of all the villagers, locked the child in the basement, stole other people's livestock to feed him every night, and raised him secretly. Sometimes chickens, sometimes pigs. Several years passed in this way. One day, the plague raged in the village. The remaining livestock died, and many people died. Even the living people left the village.
The mother couldn't leave the zombie son and left, so she cut off one of her legs to feed the crying and hungry son, then cut off an arm, and gave the child all the limbs. In the end, only the torso was left, and she finally crawled into the child's arms by herself and gave him the rest of the body. Looking at the mother with only the torso left, the child stretched out his arms and hugged her tightly. When he spoke for the first time, the child said, "Mom...it's so...warm..."
Episode 5 "Rapunzel of the Cursed Castle"
Long, long ago, deep in the forest, in a cursed castle lived a young girl. The girl's mother always told her that because she was very special, she could never fit into the life of the outside world, and she had to live in this castle. But the girl felt that the castle was like a prison. So she always prayed to the moon god: "Please, please let the handsome prince come to save me." "Will he come today? Will he come tomorrow?" The girl waited day after day .
Episode 6 "Bluebeard's Secret"
Have you heard the story of "Bluebeard"?
Long, long ago, an earl with a blue beard lived alone in a huge castle. Although he was very rich, everyone was too scared to approach him because of his blue beard. One day, a poor woman came to Bluebeard's castle and said she would be his bride. Bluebeard was so happy that he gave all the gold and silver jewelry in each room to his wife. Except for one place, the basement.
Bluebeard repeatedly warned his wife not to enter that room, but in the end the wife couldn't resist curiosity and opened the mysterious door without telling her husband. Do you know what's in that room? The corpses of women hang neatly on the wall of that room. They are the previous wives who ignored Bluebeard's warning and insisted on secretly opening the door, and ended up miserably.
Episode 7 "The Dog of Spring"
A long, long time ago, there was a puppy who was good at hiding his heart. The puppy lives in the shade of a tree. It always wags its tail and loves to act coquettishly, so the people in the village call it the dog of spring. But a puppy that plays happily with children during the day will secretly cry nonstop at night. In fact, the dog of spring day wanted to get rid of the collar and run and play in the spring fields, but he couldn't do it, so he cried and whimpered every night. One day, I asked Kasuga Dog in a low voice: "Hey, why didn't you break free from the collar and escape?" Kasuga Dog replied, "I've been tied up for too long, so I forgot how to break free."
Episode 8 Beauty and the Beast
"Beauty and the Beast" is a fairy tale written by Madame Beaumont in medieval France, which has been made into a cartoon in modern times. People usually think that its moral is that people should not be judged by their appearance, but should pay attention to the heart. But that's actually just a message that adults deliberately give to children in order to educate them. Beauty and the Beast is a fairy tale about Stockholm Syndrome. The beast lived alone in the castle because of a curse, and later tamed Belle, who entered the castle as a hostage, in his own way.
——Isn't this the story of a kind girl who was imprisoned in the castle instead of her father, and finally fell in love with the beast and successfully broke the curse for him?
The Beast is usually very selfish and very rude to Belle, but as long as she shows her kindness and smiles occasionally, innocent Belle will be deeply moved. Belle thought to herself: "The beast is too lonely, I will embrace him with love, only I can change him." But all of this is just Belle's illusion. --wrong! "Beauty and the Beast" is not a vulgar story about who the beast tames, the power that can turn the beast back into a prince is Belle's true love. Belle's true love can appease the brutal nature of the beast. Her love embraced his wounded soul. The greatest thing human beings can do is love, sublime love.
Episode 9 "The King Has Donkey Ears"
——Do you know the fairy tale "The King Has Donkey Ears"?
- Well, I know, in that... in the bamboo forest, someone yelled, "The king...the king's ears are donkey ears".
——Yes, if you keep a secret, only you know it, and you will end up suffocating yourself. He had to find someone to tell him, so he wouldn't get a heart attack.
Episode 10 "The Shepherd Girl"
Have you heard the fairy tale "The Wolf is Coming"? There was a young sheepherder who was a liar. He lied and deceived the villagers every time, saying that the wolf was really coming. Do you know why he made such a joke?
-Because he's so boring.
- No, because of loneliness.
He was so lonely on the mountain alone. The boy who shepherds the sheep lies and deceives people because he is too lonely, but when the wolf really appears, no one is willing to help him. If there was a man who would believe in him and go to help, maybe he wouldn't die.
Episode 11 "The Ugly Duckling"
——Brother, do you know the fairy tale "The Ugly Duckling"?
--I know. The other ducks crowded out the ugly duckling because he looked different and his companions isolated him.
- so it feels very lonely and even ends up being away from family. What if the mother duck cared for the ugly duckling from beginning to end?
-Then it won't run away from home.
——As long as adults hug their children with love, whether they are ducks or swans, they can live happily together.
Episode 12 "Romeo and Juliet"
-We are like Romeo and Juliet.
——Yeah, a natural enemy, a fate that should never be met.
——This is fate, it is a predestined destiny.
- a tragic fate.
Episode 13 "Father of the Rose and the Red Lotus"
"Roses and Red Lotus", I hate the father in the story very much. The children were abused by their stepmother to the point that they couldn't survive, while the father pretended to be ignorant and stood on the sidelines. Compared with the perpetrators, those who stand on the sidelines and condone atrocities are more hateful. Rose and Red Lotus were eventually killed by their father.
Episode 14 "Hand Anglerfish"
A long, long time ago, there was a lovely child who was born into a wealthy family. Her mother loves this child who is as white and beautiful as a mango lotus very much. She even promised that even if she wanted to pluck the sun, moon, and stars for her child, she would not hesitate. When the child began to be able to eat, the mother was very excited. "Baby, mom will feed you in the future, keep your mouth open. Come on, open your mouth."
When the child began to walk, the mother rushed over in a hurry, "Baby, mother will carry you, come to mother's back." The mother met all the needs of the child and took care of the child in every possible way. One day, the mother said, "My dear baby, Mommy needs a rest. Can you help Mommy prepare food?" Then the child said, "Mom, I have no hands, because I have never used them, so they disappear. "Then baby, can you carry me? Mom's legs hurt." Then the child said, "Mom, I don't have any feet either, because I always let you carry my feet, and my feet have never touched. Earth. However, I have a huge mouth." She opened her huge mouth.
So, the mother scolded her angrily: "Now it seems that you are not my perfect child, but a useless anglerfish. You are a failure who can only eat and open your mouth, and can't do anything else." The mother threw the child into the distant sea. It is said that since that day, whenever there is bad weather with strong winds, sailors will hear the cry of a child, "Mom, mother, did I do something wrong? Please, take me back! Please, take me ...take it back!"
Episode 15 "Friendly Brothers"
A long, long time ago, there was a pair of brothers who lived in poverty but with deep friendship. The autumn harvest time comes, and the rice is harvested. The elder brother was worried about the livelihood of his younger brother's family, so he quietly carried the rice bag at night and placed it in front of his younger brother's house. On the same day, the younger brother also thought that his brother's family had a large population, so he carried the rice bag he had harvested and quietly placed it in the front yard of his brother's house. When I woke up in the morning, I saw that each of the two families had a bag of rice in their yard. The brothers felt very puzzled, and at night they carried their rice bags and moved to each other's house. They repeatedly moved rice to each other for a few days.
- Do you know what the meaning of this fairy tale is? Brothers with deep friendship must live together so that they will not suffer.
Episode 16 "Finding the Truest Face"
A long, long time ago, there was a castle deep in the forest, in which lived three people whose real faces were taken away by the shadow witch. Uncle Box said: "If we don't want to fight anymore and want to be happy, we have to get back our stolen faces."
They start their journey in a camper van in search of faces. They meet a mother fox who is huddled in the snow and crying. The masked boy stepped forward and asked the fox mother: "Why are you crying?" "I put the child off my back temporarily in order to go out for food, but it disappeared into the snow." The fox mother's tears have already disappeared. Crying dry, it could only continue beating its chest and wailing. At this moment, warm tears welled up in the eyes of the masked boy. So the snow began to melt quickly, and the baby fox originally hidden in the snow appeared.
The three embark on their journey again, and they meet a topless busker dancing in a field of thorn flowers. The Empty Can Princess went up to him and asked him, "Why are you dancing so hard when you've been stabbed all over by thorns?" "I thought people would come to see my performance, but I only got pain and pain. No one pays attention to me." So the Empty Can Princess walked into the field of thorns and began to dance with the buskers. "I'm an empty can, so I won't be hurt by thorns." The princess of the empty can danced and danced. Her empty body kept making a lively clanging sound, and people followed the sound, admiring their dance, and applauding them.
Right at this moment...
They embark on a new journey in order to retrieve their stolen faces. However, the evil shadow witch appeared in front of them again. She kidnaps the mask boy, who weeps in place of the mother fox, and the empty can princess, who dances with the busker. "You two will never find a happy face in the future." After the witch left the curse, she locked them in the dark and deep voles nest. A few days later, Uncle Box found the vole's nest, but the entrance was too narrow for him to enter the vole's nest at all. "What should I do? If I want to enter the vole's nest, I have to dismantle the box." At this time, the masked boy's voice came from the vole's nest: "Uncle, don't worry about us, run away! Shadow! The witch will be back soon." Uncle Box, however, decided to muster up his courage, removed the box from his head, and went into the voles' den. In the end, he rescued the Mask Boy and the Empty Can Princess. The two who saw the light again, saw their uncle's face becoming embarrassed after dismantling the box, and they began to laugh, laughing happily. Just when the mask boy couldn't help laughing, the mask on his face suddenly fell off. The empty can surrounding the Empty Can Princess also fell with a clatter. Seeing the faces of the two of them suddenly revealed in the laughter, the uncle who took off the box said, "Oh my God, I'm so happy."
It turned out that the shadow witch took away not their three most real faces, but their courage to find happiness.
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