Planeswalker

Act 24. (FIN)
(On the stage, Ming is tied on the chair. Malu sit on her side.)
MALU: Dusk gives my worst sight of the day. Look at the street, there are beauties all around. The skyscrapers and streets morphed, like in the movie… you are standing at the corner of the stairs, with a bit of faint scent. It’s a little bit wet, a little bit strange. When I went passed you, I finally know you were crying. The things were happening at that time. How can I make you understand how I love you? I suffer silently, I fall in sleeping in crying? I shout in loud, until reach the extreme of my hoarse? I curse myself in the mirror? I run into your office and lay you down? I abandon myself and get pities from others? I go into the mental hospital, I am collapsing? Crazy love? Or I should suicide under your window? Ming, tell me what I should do? You are clever, smart, eloquent, at the height of folly, my lovely, my Ming……
(Malu uncovered Ming’s eyes. Tula the rhino is screaming in front of Ming.)
MING: What are you doing? Get away! Take the rhino away!
MALU: This is Tula, my best, and my last partner. Ming, I want to give you everything, but I have nothing. I want to give up everything for you, but I have nothing to give up. Money, position, honor, my proud in public, without these I am not worth anything. If I am in medieval, I will be a knight and write your on every city I conquer. If I am poet, all sounds will sing for you. If I am the judge, your preference is my highest rule. If I am the priest, then there is no heaven other than you. If I am a guard, every word of you is my password. If I am Xiangyu the general, I will fled with you and let others to laugh at me. If I am a robber, they will beg you to let me free them. But I am nothing, a normal person, a normal person like me, what can I do for you?
(Malu get out a pair of scissors and stab the rhino. Blood start to spout out, Tula screamed crazily. It rushed to Malu. Ming is screaming.)
MALU: Don’t be afraid, Tula. I will take you away. Above the swamp, above the valley, cross the mountains and forests, cross the cloud and sea, cross the sun, cross the limit of the stars, excel our life. In front of us it’s the endless African grassland, the sunset is on the neck of giraffe. Everything starts to have lives at the monsoon season.
(Malu killed Tula with gun.)
(Ming is scared. And she can’t say a word.)
(Malu went towards Tula with a blade. He gets Tula’s bloody heart out of its body.)
MALU: This is the only thing I can give you. Tula’s heart and myself. Can you accept them? Ming, my love, tender, sweet…
(Ming has tears all around her face, unable to say even a word.)
MALU:
All the white things will feel ashamed to be black ink when compared to you,
All ignorant animals feel desperate for they can’t say your name,
All the polices at cross give you green lights,
All compasses show me your direction.
You are the wind without trace,
You are the wind passing through me,
You are the wind without shape,
You are the wind everywhere,
I love you so much, Ming.
(Malu takes Ming in hug.)
MING: You finished the poem, it’s so beautiful. I am sorry.
(The searchlight is on. The alarms are on. Everyone gets into the rhino’s house. They are shocked, starting at Malu but daren’t to approach.)
POLICE: Malu, Malu. Release the hostage immediately. You are already surrounded!
BLACK ET AL: Malu!
(Malu don’t listen to all the others. He just hug Ming tightly. Ming doesn’t move, and look at the distant.)

Ming’s Song: Only Me

Smile to me, as if we first met.
Talk to me, even the promise will change tomorrow.
Hug me, in such a cold night.
Think of me, in the year you feel old.

All the ages will past, only me will be on your side.
All the ages will past, only me will be on your side.

Smile to me, as if we first met.
Talk to me, even the promise will change tomorrow.
Take me, life is always uncertain.
Think of me, in the year you feel old.

Song of All: Glass Woman

You are different, unique, soft, clean, sky-like.
You are my warm gloves and cold beer.
You are a shirt with a smell of sun, and a dream day after day.
You are pure, naive and glass-like,
you can never pollute anything, you can never change anything.
But when the sun is going through you, it changed its direction.
My love, my love, my love…

Act 23.
(Rhino’s house)
MALU: All rhinos have left, aren’t you alone here? The new rhino’s house is good, bright, large, fresh air. Tana the white rhino has already settled down. There is a new male rhino. It’s young, curious about everything and running after Tana. Don’t you want to see? You only need to get into the cage with apples and bananas. After shutting down the cage, they will carry you there. Why are you hesitating around the cage? They have waited for a month. I think they’ve lost the patience. If you don’t get into the cage tomorrow, the manager will use tranq gun. Look, the gun is here! Do you want they treat you like this? Poor Tula. I know you can’t get along with everyone else, just like me. We stay together just because we are bored. Now they must take me as mad. You should be like all the other rhinos. Then you won’t be so depressed. Is it so hard to follow your life? I see most people do this naturally. You just need to do whatever the others do. So we are not welcomed, the gun should be used. For many times I thought of giving up, but it left me some pain in my body. Once I thought it will make me a pain there forever, once I thought the way I understand everything will become dull and boring because of it, I am afraid. Loving her, is the best thing I have done.
(Ming get on the stage.)
MALU: Ming.
MING: I am leaving, I am saying good bye to you.
MALU: Where?
MING: The god favors the brave, strong and sentimental people.
MALU: You are going to find that guy?
MING: For many times I thought of giving up, but it left me some pain in my body. Once I thought it will make me a pain there forever, once I thought the way I understand everything will become dull and boring because of it, I am afraid. Loving him, is the best thing I have done.
MALU: What are you talking about?
MING: I heard you talking like this.
MALU: So you understand?
MING: I always understand.
MALU: Then you are not leaving?
MING: I am leaving.
MALU: Then why don’t you understand? I won’t left you leave, and I won’t let you leave me!
(Malu suddenly rushed to Ming. He wants to tie her with ropes. Ming starts to struggle.)
MALU: I said I am a man keeps words. The night it’s you who begged me not to leave you, and don’t let you leave me. So you should understand, you can’t go anywhere. I will get you back from the end of world! Don’t struggle, struggling is useless. We are destined to die together!
MING: You crazy. Let me alone. Don’t you understand? I don’t want to be together with you! Help! Help!
(Malu don’t let her struggle any more and hit her. Ming fainted in Malu.)

Act 22.

(All people stand in a row. The photographer is dealing with the camera. Toothbrush, Cheater and Malu are in formal dresses. Black in suite stands in the middle, the bride’s place is missing. )
TOOTHBRUSH: I agree — marriage is the only way to cure whelks on Black’s face. From this point, marriage is a good thing.
MALU: Someone finish his life time task faster than others.
TOOTHBRUSH: I think finishing it better is more important than finishing faster. Black is hurrying for hot buns… (Everyone is looking at Toothbrush. Toothbrush felt he made wrong words) Very good!
BLACK: Lee said, if we marry fast right now, we are in a cross century marriage. Our kid will be born in the new century.
CHEATER: The rabbit returned home, the boat docked at the bank, one more big problem got resolved in China.
MALU: Quite good.
TRAINER: One more unstable factor disappeared in the society.
CHEATER: Quite good.
MODERATOR: This is called to make rehearsal true. “Method acting” is not good at this point.
BLACK: Why isn’t Lee here yet?
MODERATOR: For most women, wedding is the only chance to be the main character. Of course she will let you wait longer.
BLACK: The big clock lottery will be open soon!
TOOTHBRUSH: You want both the girl and the money?
BLACK: It’s called good things never come alone.
TOOTHBRUSH: Have you heard of losing in love but winning in gamble?
(Hong dresses in bridesmaid and got on the stage)
HONG: Here, here, here comes the bride.
(Everyone is waiting at the two sides of the passage. Lee got on the stage with modern wedding dress.)
ALL: Beautiful!
LEE: I can’t find my earrings! Who saw my earrings?
PHOTOGRAPHER: Come, come, are all the people here? Let’s get the photo.
LEE: My earring got lost, it’s diamond!
BLACK: Let’s get a photo first.
LEE: Have I said that? My earrings disappeared. How can I take photo without earrings?!
TRAINER: This is the first quarrel in marriage I talked about. Look, the winner of the quarrel will decide the winner in the family.
(Hong always stands near Malu. Malu tried to escape her.)
BLACK: It’s my mistake. I will buy you a new one later.
(Black and Lee returned to the queue.)
PHOTOGRAPHER: Ok, ok, attention, look here! Smile!
(Everyone stands and stares at the camera, making exaggerated face.)

Song: Repeat the song in Act 1.

This is a materialistic-overflow age
This is an emotion-overflow age
This is a knowledge-overflow age
This is an information-overflow age
This is a wise and clever age
This is a down-to-earth age

Love is so nice, but can’t stand a strike.
Love is so nice, but can’t stand a strike.

(The camera flashes. All people change back their face and ran to another side of the stage.)
MODERATOR: To welcome the new century, the unique big clock in the world are completed! It will stand like a mountain, lasting forever, showing the wisdom and strength of human being. The lottery for the big clock has reached 5 million! The miracle will happen today, the miracle will happen at the moment. Billions of eyes are looking at us, looking here, looking at the approaching of the miracle! Who will be the one taking the prize? Who will be the lucky one for the new century?

CITIZEN A: If I will get the money, I will build a primary school in my home town.
CITIZEN B: If I will get the money, I will try to contact aliens in the new century.
CITIZEN C: I will deal with the polluted airs.
CITIZEN D: I will pay my debts with them.
CITIZEN E: I will buy diamond earrings!
CITIZEN F: Go abroad.
CITIZEN G: Buy houses.
CITIZEN H: Buy Viagra with all of them!

(Drums.)
MODERATOR: Miracle, let’s meet the miracle!
(The number started to blink on the screen and finally freeze. Malu jump out from the crowd and walked to the higher place. Everyone is staring at him.)
MALU: Believe in miracle. (Rising the lottery in hand.)
(All people are screaming. Malu’s friends are screaming higher.)
BLACK: It’s Malu, Malu!
LEE: We all will have good days!
CHEATER: I did compute the probability!
HONG: I love you!
TOOTHBRUSH: This is losing in love but winning in gamble.
BLACK: I want to lose love, too.
MODERATOR: The lucky one, what’s your name?
MALU: Malu.
MODERATOR: Congratulations!
MALU: Thanks.
MODERATOR: According to the notary, Malu’s lottery is valid. 5 million cash is here!
(Malu takes the briefcase from others’ cheers.)
MODERATOR: May I ask you what will you do with the money?
MALU: The money itself is useless to me…….
BLACK: Give it to me!
MALU: One tenth of them, I promised to give it to my best friend……
(Black, Toothbrush and Cheater screamed.)
Malu: … Tula the rhino, to buy an African female rhino as a partner.
MODERATOR: This is an excellent idea, what else?
(Malu didn’t answer. He suddenly took the briefcase and ran.)
ALL: Where is he going? Where is he going?
MODERATOR: Follow him. Camera follows.
CHEATER AND OTHERS: Wait, Malu!
HONG: My shoes, my shoes are lost!
LEE: Who stepped on my skirt!
ALL: Where is he going?
A: Hide the money!
B: Hide from the debit collectors?
C: Hide from us!
MODERATOR: (speaking while running) He has passed 5 avenues, leaving all others in the back. From his energy and the way he ran, some specialists speculates he is a former marathon runner. We are busy collecting Malu’s background materials. Malu is getting into a small lane, stopped before an apartment. He got in the apartment…
MALU: Ming, open the door. It’s me, Malu! Ming!
MODERATOR: (Excited) He is knocking the door. He is calling one’s name.
(All people followed and breathing heavily.)
MALU: Ming, can you hear me? I am Malu, open the door! I said to myself if I can make you happy, I will never leave you and never let you leave me. I’ve prepared for a long time. I learned computer, English, finished the training lesson for love. Now, I finally have sufficient money. Ming, money is useless, it’s only useful if it could make you happy. They are all yours.
(All cheers.)
MODERATOR: Who’s Ming? Who’s Ming? Hurry, background materials!
MALU: What are you cheering about? What are you cheering about? My heart is blowing up. But I am sure we are not cheering about the same thing! Believe me, the god will show its kindness to the brave, strong and sentimental people. If you want something, love something, believe me, you just go ahead for it. If you have strong enough will, you are invincible! Ming, I will give you happiness! The happiness nobody has ever seen!
(Ming appears at the window.)
MING: I don’t want.
MODERATOR: What did she say? What did she say? I can’t hear it.
MING: You have the money, also the others. Why should I want yours? And I don’t want to give you what you want.
MALU: No, I don’t want anything from you. I will give you things. I will give you happiness.
MING: Thanks, you’d better leave it for yourself.
MALU: What? What are you talking about?
MING: I say I don’t want — your money and your happiness.
MALU: Why?
MING: You should leave the money to do something make you happy.
MALU: The only thing makes me hapy is you.
MING: Then I don’t want it even more.
MALU: Why? Don’t say you don’t need money. You could be a mistress for money, what’s the difference of these money?
MING: I just don’t want your money. Can you force me? Even if I will be a bitch for money, it has nothing to do with you. I just can’t stand you as a saint. I don’t love you. I don’t want to hear you talking about love everyday. I don’t want to let you have this power by accepting your money, do you understand?
(Ming left the window.)
MALU: Then why do I need it?
CHEATER: Don’t listen to her! If someone is born to be baseness, taking other’s kindness as bullshit. The best way to fight back is to take him as bullshit too.
TOOTHBRUSH: Yes! She is just a unworthy girl. If she promises she love you now, you can’t believe in her. Not to mention her attitude now.
MALU: All smells disappears. The lemon gum, the printer smell from her, the smell of fur of the purse. My nose can’t smell anything. I start to doubt about myself, doubt about my love about her, doubt about everything … what could make me to confirm I am still myself? What makes me to confirm I am still living? It’s not about love or not, but a fight. It’s not a fight between me and her, but it’s a fight between myself and everything else. I didn’t manage to do anything. That’s not important. But if I admit the failure this time, I put down my head, I will compromise with my life forever. I will be a normal man in your eyes, getting cheap happiness from it, muddling in shadow. All these doesn’t make sense for me, I prefer nothing.
BLACK: Fool.
MALU: (To the window) Ming, I know these money is a lot for me and a little for some others. But there is one point they can’t compare with me. I can give up all I have for you, but they can’t.
(After the words, Malu put down the briefcase and get off the stage. Everyone is starting at him. Suddenly they crowd around the briefcase.)

Act 21.
(Malu is clean and tidy. Black and Cheater are nearby. )
MALU: All the white things will feel ashamed to be black ink when compared to you,
All ignorant animals feel desperate for they can’t say your name…
BLACK: Why is he always saying so?
CHEATER: He just finished these two without the rest. So he can only murmur them.
BLACK: It’s so boring. My ears itch. (Got a match and start to pick his ears) Don’t touch me! Stay far from me.
CHEATER: I won’t touch you.
BLACK: Stay far from me anyway, I am afraid.
MALU: (Got another sentence after a long time) All the polices at cross give you green lights…
CHEATER: (Touched Black) Hey, this one is good.
BLACK: (Crying) Ah, I said don’t touch me.
CHEATER: I forgot.
BLACK: Forgot? I will be deaf! Don’t touch me any more!
CHEATER: I won’t.
(Black don’t believe that and hide far away. Toothbrush rushes inside suddenly. )
TOOTHBRUSH: One more crazy, one more! Cheater, do you know what happened? Black! (He patted Black heavily. Black cried but Toothbrush didn’t even look at him) Malu! Do you know? You know?
CHEATER: Who’s crazy? You?
TOOTHBRUSH: Hong.
BLACK: (Covering ears with hand, loudly) Who?
TOOTHBRUSH: Lower.
BLACK: What are you saying?
TOOTHBRUSH: Low down! Hong talked to me in the early morning — she got in love with Malu! The whole morning I was selling eyebrow cutter, wherever I went she went with me, her eyebrow is nearly gone but she’s not leaving… (learn to speak in Hong’s tongue) Say, say more! How good the Malu’s eyebrows are, how good the Malu’s teeth are, how sexy the Malu’s leg hairs are… Malu’s sickness is not recovered yet, but she is nearly crazy!
CHEATER: It seems that Malu didn’t only get sick but also epidemic. (Laugh)
BLACK: Anything worth laughing? I will be crazy too if he continue to sing this. I am leaving.
(Hong shouted from the outside, “Malu, I’m Hong” )
TOOTHBRUSH: Damn, the mad one is coming, I need to leave.
CHEATER: Me too.
(All the others are leaving, Hong got on the stage. She acted to send food in a rainy day, and got leg broken since fell down.)
MALU: Why are you here again?!
HONG: There is no end to our stories yet.
MALU: I told you, I am not interested in your story! Whatever falling down in rainy day or broken legs…
HONG: If you don’t like you can change one! No matter what it’s much better than getting hit by a truck when rescuing a kid?
MALU: Why should I get hit by a truck?
HONG: It’s a possibility. Everything could happen in life.
MALU: You are talking about TV shows.
HONG: Maybe you will discover I am the one you love tomorrow morning.
MALU: You must be kidding.
HONG: If you don’t change your love, the audience won’t like you. Or maybe you should get harder life, discovering the secretary you love doesn’t have moral at all, loving the rich and vanity. She also has unclear relations with her boss. After a deep thought, you find that Hong is a good girl…
MALU: Nonsense!
HONG: Why nonsense?
MALU: Don’t torture me with your soap operas! And don’t use these words to attack Ming.
HONG: Why attack? Just now when I got upstairs, I saw she got off from a man’s Mercedes, with gifts in hand. The man is older than her brother, younger than her father. She told me it’s her boss.
MALU: She told me?
HONG: I concern about the story, so asked a few sentences more. She admitted they are lovers and the man has wife.
MALU: The life really imitates TV shows.
HONG: The life always imitates TV shows. You can ask her directly if you don’t believe. She didn’t hide it as if it’s what it should be.
MALU: I won’t ask her. I will be angry to death if . But for now, this is real or just your story won’t change my mind. “I won’t leave you, and I won’t let you leave me.” When I know I can make you have happiness, you will be mine forever. There is only a little left, you must be waiting for me. (Got off the stage)
HONG: I damned fail today. I’ve been fighting for more than 10 years in the TV show business. No one has ever resisted my excellent techniques. I can’t imagine that I failed in one that feed black rhinos. Ok, I leave.

Act 20.
MALU: I said to my self, if I can’t force myself to talk to you with a peaceful and calm face, I won’t see you any more. I can do that now. Before this, I didn’t believe that one man’s wish could change the color of sky, the shape of an object or make a dream in such a solid shell either. But now I know that’s because the wish is not strong enough. Ming, you are not angry any more, right? Maybe I am born to be a crazy man.
MING: Is that raining outside?
MALU: Maybe not yet.
MING: Not yet?
MALU: But all the people on the street are carrying umbrellas.
MING: They don’t look at sky. They only listen to the probability of raining. It’s so depressing. It’s still not raining with so many thunders! I am full of desires in this weather and can’t stay clam. The life is going back. When the exercise everyday is just walking from one side of the house to another, I start to sleep bad. I am full of desires from top to bottom. I start to want a man not because of emotions, but desires. The desires make me restless and sleepless. This is awful. I can’t stand to stay alone in the night. My body is rioting and the grassland is wet. It’s only 7 days since 31st, this is awful.
MALU: Are you sick? How many days haven’t you been going to work?
MING: It doesn’t matter. I can see that my manager has certain kind of preference over me. Tell me something, what about your Tula?
MALU: It’s not good. It doesn’t like to move and eating less. It’s easily frightened by strangers. Maybe it’s old. But it’s just 20, a middle age rhino.
MING: Maybe it got lovesickness.
MALU: Maybe I influenced it.
(Ming laughed)
MING: I think you should take this. (Ming gives the purse in that night to Malu. Malu stared at it astonishingly, and smelt it) That day was Fei’s birthday. He didn’t come till midnight, so I gave the cakes, present and all my passion to you.
MALU: You are saying it’s not dream that day?
MING: You can take it as dream. They are not yours anyway.
MALU: Then what about yesterday? Yesterday night?
MING: What’s wrong with yesterday night?
MALU: Did you come or not?
MING: What are you talking about?
MALU: Oh my god, I am confused by you! How could you do this?!
MING: You mean in the night?
MALU: Yes.
MING: You don’t like it?
MALU: No! I don’t know if you are crazy or I am.
MING: It’s not important. It’s all over.
MALU: That guy is over. We are just started.
MING: There is no “we”. There is just “me” from now on.
MALU: I won’t leave you, and I won’t let you leave me.
MING: Don’t compete on sweet words with me.
MALU: Let’s wait and see.

Act 19.
CHEATER: It’s exaggerated. It’s like only he has sex and all the others are hermaphrodite.
BLACK: He goes to computer lessons every night.
TOOTHBRUSH: And English lessons.
BLACK: He goes for driving classes on Sunday.
TOOTHBRUSH: He takes a briefcase to work everyday.
BLACK: He also submit an application to manage the rhinos using computers.
CHEATER: English translated is attached!
TOOTHBRUSH: Maybe he’s wearing a suite when washing rhinos.
CHEATER: He writes poems.
BLACK: He plays pianos too.
TOOTHBRUSH: Chawing gums.
CHEATER: Sing nocturnes.
BLACK: Change socks everyday.
BLACK: And go shower everyday.
ALL: It’s crazy.
TOOTHBRUSH: We need to help him, otherwise he’s over.
BLACK: I tried. He said he never lived like this. And he said don’t worry, I will meet a woman that will take my life. According to his tone, I am feeling a little worried — I am afraid that no one will take my life!
CHEATER: That’s good for us. Don’t listen to Malu. There is no difference between love and comedy, sports, pop music. They are just to make people live happier.
(Hong and Lee get on the stage)
HONG and LEE: We are Hong and Lee.
CHEATER: Who are you?
HONG: If everything is happy from the beginning to the end, what could be told as love stories? Who will watch the TV shows? What could we do every night?
LEE: To sum up, you love him, he doesn’t love you, he loves you, you don’t love him, the two are destined to break up.
CHEATER: Are you from TV station?
HONG and LEE: We are Hong and Lee.
TOOTHBRUSH: I found them.
CHEATER: For what?
TOOTHBRUSH: To cure Malu.
BLACK: Why two? He is not that sick.
TOOTHBRUSH: To find one suits Malu.
BLACK: What about the other?
TOOTHBRUSH: As she wish. (claps) Attention, attention, the two candidates please stand by. The act is starting now. The story for the TV show is like this: a youth called Malu fell in love with his beautiful female neighbor, a young secretary.
HONG: What’s the name of her?
TOOTHBRUSH: Malu.
LEE: We are asking the name of the secretary.
TOOTHBRUSH: Who cares?
BLACK: Ming, her name is Ming.
TOOTHBRUSH: (stared at black) Malu fell in love with Ming, but Ming doesn’t love him.
HONG: She loves another guy, but that one doesn’t love her either.
BLACK: How do you know?
LEE: All stories are like this.
TOOTHBRUSH: Malu is in pain, nearly crazy. Now the question is, what will go on with Malu?
(Hong and Lee press the alarm to answer)
HONG: He met a kind girl, and takes care about him…
LEE: … help him and warm his cold heart…
HONG: A raining day, the girl sent food to Malu, felt down on the road and broke her leg…
LEE: A snowy day, Malu got hit by a truck when rescuing a kid…
HONG: The girl went to see Malu with a broken leg. Malu is moved by the girl with muds…
LEE: Malu remains unconscious in the hospital, crying “Ming”. But when he wakes up, he see another girl…
HONG: So another story starts. But unexpected things happened…
LEE: The girl hasn’t been sleeping for three days. Malu’s heart is filled by another love, but a good gain always requires long pains…
CHEATER: You both are advanced.
BLACK: Can you let her speak in turn?
TOOTHBRUSH: Is that good? Which one is better?
CHEATER: It’s hard to choose.
BLACK: I feel that it’s hard to make Malu hit by a truck.
HONG: Why hard? A truck with horn driving to the camera. After that the scary face of the kid, and Malu pushes the kid away. With a sharp brake, Malu lies in the middle of the road.
CHEATER: We don’t know if Malu likes to cooperate to be hit by the truck.
TOOTHBRUSH: If you let me say, the girl with broken leg is better. She doesn’t need to break her leg, she only needs to put on some bandage. Do you agree?
BLACK: Ok then let Hong be the one. She suits Malu. I suits Lee better.
TOOTHBRUSH: Ok, now the judges are scoring. Number 1 scores 99.75. Number 2 scores 0. Number 1 is elected.
(Lee cried and ran away)
BLACK: Lee!
HONG: The boy followed Lee. He hold her hand and saying ” don’t cry, I know you are the best. ” Lee suddenly got into the boy’s hug.
BLACK: Really?!
(Hong nodded. Black ran off the stage)
HONG: The boy caressed Lee’s hairs and said, “Don’t cry, stupid kid…”
TOOTHBRUSH: Stop!
HONG: (don’t listen to Toothbrush and continued) “We could be together stand against future storms…”
CHEATER: Frame freezes. Episode ends. Show the list of actors and sponsors…
(Hong stopped and get of the stage)
TOOTHBRUSH: All done. I don’t think Malu could live more than a TV show.

Act 16.
(Malu sits down silently, desperately and sadly.)
CHEATER: Are you crazy? If you want to rape her you need to wait till night. It’s a shame. It’s lucky that the police didn’t get you.
TOOTHBRUSH: Don’t blame him. He is in rut. It’s just like Tula in African grassland, he doesn’t know what he is doing.
BLACK: Just a woman with printer smell!
CHEATER: Exaggerating the difference between one woman and another is the source of all pains. In this information age with infinite possible choices, “stubborn” is just a mental disease. Forget about her!
(The gang of three get off the stage)
MALU: Forget her, just forget her and you don’t need to suffer. Forget her then there is not pain. Forget her. Forget the things you don’t have. Forget the things others have. Forget all you lost and you can’t get again. Forget the hatred. Forget the shame. Forget the love. Like the rhinos forgetting grasslands, like water birds forgetting pools. Like people in hell forgetting heave. Like disabled forgetting they could once run. Like the falling leaves forgetting wind. Like Tula forgetting about female rhinos. Forgetting is something that one normal person could do. But I decide I won’t forget her.

Act 17. (youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXXxwVba4KE )
MING: He has the eyes of small animals. His tender is like a small beast. Tender is against his will, going out from his eyes. He realized it by himself. He is rude to cover this shame. It’s like a small beast showing his teeth to sky, pretending to be untouchable.

(Malu starts to sing. “Glass Woman”)
You will never know,
you are the sunny day I wanted for long, you are the thunderstorm I never expected.
You will never know,
You are my unbearable hunger, you are the air I am living on.
You will never now, my love,
maybe you will never know…

You will never know,
you are the sunny day I wanted for long, you are the thunderstorm I never expected.
You will never know,
You are my unbearable hunger, you are the air I am living on.
You will never now, my love,
maybe you will never know…

MING: What should I say? I love you very much. “very much”, “love”, these words are empty and without persuasion. Today I think hard when waking up, I want to find a real evidence that nobody could doubt. No. There aren’t. …… I remember there is an evening, on the roof, you slept like a kid. You breathed lightly. It was quiet. I looked at you, stared you, approached you and breathed in every breath of you… It was summer. It was quiet. Everything is far away. I am just falling in your breathe. I thought it was the idea of “breathing together”. People could live on carbon dioxide, if there is love.

Act 18.
(Night in Malu’s home)
MALU: One sheep, two sheep, three sheep, four sheep …… I kept waiting, trying to sleep, like the youth with nightmare. Who can confirm our daily life isn’t just a dream in another world on another bed? If you come to me again, if I can use my arms to hug you again, I want to sleep forever, forever … seven sheep, eight sheep, nine sheep…
(Ming appeared in front of Malu’s bed again)
MALU: You come, it must a dream, it’s also good.
(Malu suddenly caught Ming, shouted “I am dreaming! I am dreaming!”)
MING: What’s wrong with you?
MALU: Are you here? Don’t leave me, don’t leave me! No!

Act 14.
(Cheater is telling stories to Black and Toothbrush)
CHEATER: Long long ago there is a youth, he got bad dreams everyday.
BLACK: When? When?
TOOTHBRUSH: Who cares? Stories are always like this.
CHEATER: Sleeping became the worst thing for him. He doesn’t dare to sleep. He’s afraid of the ghost in the dream. Fortunately he met a prophet. The prophet told him, dream is another reality. If he shouts “I am dreaming”, he will return to reality at the moment . The youth remembered the prophet’s remarks, and night falls. Suddenly, the ghost in the dream holds a blade and ran to him, the youth was scared. He remembered prophet’s remark, caught the blade and shouted “I am dreaming”. After he opened his eyes, he discovered a blade in his hand with jewels. It’s the one the ghost’s holding. From then on the youth started to enjoy dreaming. He always shout the words to wake up with treasures. He sold these treasures, and lived a good life. One night the ghost in the dream found him again, begged him not to take things from the dream any more. The ghost promised if he will do so, he will have good dreams everyday. The youth agreed. After that the youth had good dreams everyday. He didn’t want to wake up. What he did everyday is to sleep as much as he could. One day in the garden of the dream, he met a stunning beauty and loved her. He remembered the words again so he shouted “I am dreaming”. After his awakening, the beauty is just on his side and look at him in love. The youth doesn’t have any more dreams since then. No good dreams, no bad dreams, the country of dream exiled him.

Act. 15
MALU: It’s the end. All pains are end at the moment. A woman will make you feel the world is full of sunshine. You can run, you and jump. You can shoot as much as you can. You can even fly.
MING: What are you shouting here?
MALU: Ming, I woke you up? I am sorry. Wake up the lazy, I bought you breakfast.
MING: Crazy.
(Ming wants to leave. Malu embraced her and started to swing her. )
MALU: Sleepy head, koala, small fox, still want more sleep…
MING: What are you doing? Let me free!
(Malu doesn’t listen. Ming started to struggle. Suddenly she slapped Malu. Malu put Ming down astonishingly. )
MING: Are you crazy?
MALU: What’s wrong? Why unhappy?
MING: Don’t bother me. I am sleeping.
MALU: (Stop Ming) Ming, what’s up?
MING: You ask me? Please control yourself from now on. I don’t want to embarrass you.
MALU: What are you talking about?
MING: What else you want me to say? We are neighbors. You look after me in daily life, I thank you for that. But that’s it. Please don’t do the things to embarrass both of us.
MALU: Ming…
MING: I don’t know good or bad. I am never moved by others’ kindness. It’s funny to say these in the morning, I return to sleep.
MALU: Isn’t that you yesterday night? A fox got your soul yesterday? How could it be? Just this pair of eyes, just this forehead, just this pair of sweet lips. How many sweet words are said, how many times I kissed…
MING: What are you talking about? Don’t get me into your dirty dreams.
MALU: I am dreaming? Impossible. Your temperature is still in my hand. Your fragrance is still in my nose…
MING: I don’t have anything to say. (leaving)
MALU: You don’t admit? You want me to believe none of these happened? All these are my dreams?
MING: What else you want me to do? You want me to dream with you?
MALU: Dream? Then what’s this? (Holding a cake with a corner missing) Then what’s this?!
MING: Your birthday?
MALU: Are you going to make me crazy?! You really want me crazy? Ok, where’s the purse? Purse? Where is the purse?
(Ming is about to leave, Malu stopped her)
MING: Leave me free, what are you going to do?!
MALU: What am I going to do? I told you I am different from them. I keep my word. I won’t leave you and I won’t let you leave me.
MING: HELP!
(Cheater, Toothbrush and Black rush onto the strange and splitted Ming and Malu)
CHEATER: Malu, what’s wrong with you? Calm down!
(Malu is shouting. People get him off the stage. )

Act 13.
(In Malu’s home)
MING: Get up, the lazy! Good things for you.
MALU: Ming, what’s up? Cake?
MING: It’s for you.
MALU: Why? In the midnight?
MING: No why. Do you eat it?
MALU: If you want me eat I will.
MING: Good kid. Delicious? I order it in purpose after work, cream with fruits.
MALU: (nodded) Who’s birthday? Is that yours in Oct?
MING: It’s yours!
MALU: I am born in winter.
MING: (Kindly) Stupid, you can even forget your birthday.
MALU: Ok, I will have my birthday today if you say so.
MING: Um. And this.
MALU: What?
MING: Gift.
MALU: For me?
MING: Aha, open it.
(Malu opened it, it’s a purse)
MING: (carefully) Do you like it?
MALU: Yes.
MING: Really?
MALU: Yes.
MING: Then why don’t you kiss me?
(Malu can’t believe himself and stared at Ming. And Ming get into his hug.)
MING: I’ve been to many shops. I want something that you will need everyday and taking everyday. Then once you see it and take it out, you will remember me.
MALU: Ming.
MING: I waited for you for a long time. I look out of he window from evening. Every footstep is like on my nerv, making me a leave in wind, shaking in the air. I thought you might have dinner with me. Even if you don’t, you will come to see me after dinner. Even if you don’t come, after drinking in the pub, talking and flirting with a strange girl, you will see me. I am waiting, waiting, waiting… I know you will come…
MALU: I know I am dreaming. But it doesn’t matter it’s true or false, dreaming or awaken. As long as you are here, it doesn’t matter for me.
MING: Promise me, you won’t leave me, and don’t let me leave you.
MALU: I won’t leave you, and I won’t let you leave me.
MING: No one believes in promises any more. Promise is just the same as sending flowers and having dinner, it’s just a way to express your feelings.
MALU: I am not the same as them. I will make you understand the difference. You can wait and see.

Song by Ming, Only me

Smile to me, like we met for the first time.
Speak to me, even the promise will change tomorrow.
Enjoy me, fate is always a twist.
Remember me, on the year I turned old.

Past ages are passed, at last only I will stay with you.
Past ages are passed, at last only I will stay with you.

Ming makes love with Malu, Song: Make Love

All light are running to me,
All oxygen are absorbed
All objects lost their weight,
I’ve been to the end of the way.

We can’t talk in this moment, the best approach is to keep silent.
We can’t talk in this moment, the best approach is to sigh.
We can’t talk in this moment, the best approach is to cry.
We can’t talk in this moment, the best approach is to fly.

My shadow is running, but I can’t move,
You are smiling at the end of the world.

Act 11. (youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQMEfKus_e0)

(Love training)
TRAINER: In the time of new century, in order to make human happy and comfortable, in order to prevent torturing yourself and measuring yourself improperly, we should push standardization, professionalization and regulation of love to strictly prohibit the waste caused by abusing emotions.
(The trainer showed the slides: Ways to end a love)
TRAINER: In the following we learn how to get over a lover. First, blame another with the same bad points. Second, stop him when he’s talking and start another topic. Third, ask for love when he’s tired. Fourth, try all ways to lie to your lover. Fifth, talk about things he’s not familiar with. Sixth, refuse to let him touch your body between navel and leg. Seventh, ask him for things he is unable to do. Eighth, repeat his bad points and habits, and conclude they are not fixable. Ninth, laugh at him make him ironic. Tenth, kick him away…

Act 12.
(In the construct field of the century clock)
(People discuss the top 100 news in the 20th century)