My Beast Legion
The Chinese New Year is a time for families to come together and celebrate, but for children, it is also a time for receiving red envelopes filled with New Year's money from their elders. I was eleven years old, a sixth-grade student who was eagerly looking forward to this tradition. My parents usually help us save the money for future needs. However, my priorities were not the same as my parents. I was more interested in using the money for gaming purposes, just the same as my little brother. In addition to playing video games, there was another game that we loved at the time. It’s a table-top game. During that time, I was preparing to graduate from elementary school, and everyone's study pressure was relatively easy. In our grade, there was a popular game called “flying car.” What we did is to fold a piece of A4 paper into the shape of a spaceship and put them all on a desk. We would take turns bouncing our ships with the goal of knocking everyone else's ships off the t