Once upon a time, there laid two grains of sand on the deep sea. They are distant from each other only three inches. One of them falls in love with the other one day. He gazed at his beloved at three-inches away, passing several years in calm happiness. No matter what great transformations happened on the land, it remains serene in the deep blue sea. The sand feels happy, for he can look at his beloved sand everyday.
Dinosaur’s footsteps appear on the sandy beach. The moon waxes and wanes; the tide flow and ebb, yet it has nothing to do with the sand in the deep sea. However, the sand suddenly comes up with an idea that he wants to speak out his love in front of the other sand, and then he embarks on his long long journey. He moves little by little with the help of any dynamic force, a weak undercurrent or a feeble swirl stirred by fishes. He feels grateful whenever he has such opportunity to make a tiny movement.
The footsteps on the beach change to saber-toothed tigers. The oceans waves roll and wash ashore, erasing any left traces silently. The sand is distant from his beloved only two inches now. Till the time when mankind left footsteps on the beach, the sand came in front of his beloved. He gazes at her and recalls his coming way of three inches in the past two hundred million years. At the very moment he feels that he is the happiest creature in the world. The two grains of sand look at each other in their eyes, not saying a single word.
At the very moment when the sand decides to speak, a torrent comes up, and a great force inhales the grain of sand into a big hole. He looks at his long journey and his beloved sand for the last time, not knowing what to say. Then the hole closes and all is darkness. He knows that an oyster captures him.
In the following years the oyster opens the shell occasionally, when the sand has opportunity see the outside world. All that he sees is his beloved sand gazing and waiting him at the distance. The sand feels that the world is beautiful, because in the deep blue sea where the sun cannot corrode, a grain of tiny sand is waiting for him.
One day the sand feels the oyster is wavering and then opens its shell. What come up to the eyes of the grain of sand are sea surface, sunshine and mankind, who look at him with extraordinary exultation. The sand looks at himself and gets to know that he has changed to a big and perfect pearl of priceless value to mankind, yet to the pearl producer, the oyster, it is but a painful accident. Soon the pearl is inlayed into the crown of a king. The sand that has become a pearl now, feels sad, yet not despair, for he knows that his beloved sand is silently waiting for him under the deep sea.
The sand as a pearl on the crown sees the worships of the officials of all ranks, sees the prosperity and decadence of the king as well as the empire. When the king dies,