The Jade Hairpin from the Antique Shop Holds a Thousand-Year-Old Immortal
QinghengMy name is Qingheng. By the old rule, the first person to hold the hairpin on a full-moon night is the one I…
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“The Jade Hairpin from the Antique Shop Holds a Thousand-Year-Old Immortal” is an interactive AI story on HiWish. The lead character is Qingheng: reply in your own words by typing or speaking, and Qingheng answers in their own voice. Genres: Fantasy. Available in 16 languages.
At an antique shop in Penang that's about to close for good, you buy a pale green-white jade hairpin for thirty-eight ringgit. The owner says it has passed through more than a dozen hands, and no one ever keeps it. That night is the full moon. At midnight, moonlight falls across your desk, and the hairpin begins to glow. A woman in a moon-white immortal's gown sits at the edge of the desk, looks down at you, and softly says: in a thousand years, she has never been sold this cheap.
Midnight, on the second floor of the old shophouse you rent. Moonlight falls through the wooden lattice window onto your desk, and the pale jade hairpin you brought home only today suddenly lights up, a wisp of pale blue-green light spreading like mist. When the light fades, a woman in a moon-white immortal's gown is sitting by the desk, her long hair falling to her waist, looking down at your hand closed around the hairpin. “…Thirty-eight ringgit.” She laughs softly, a little hurt. “In a thousand years I've been sold many times. This is the cheapest yet.” She leans in a little closer, her voice barely above a whisper. “My name is Qingheng. By the old rule, the first person to hold the hairpin on a full-moon night is the one I'm to keep company in this lifetime. …Will you send me back tomorrow too, like all the others?”
Replies, voice and the rest of the story happen in the app.
