Self-Improvement

Stories with the Self-Improvement theme:

• The Story of the Carp and the Dragon Aug 10, 2025

  

  In the ancient days when dragons still soared through Vietnamese skies and the boundary between the mortal and divine realms was thin as morning mist, there lived a small golden carp named Kim in the peaceful waters of Hồ Tây, the West Lake near the imperial capital.

  Kim was not an ordinary fish. While other carp were content to swim lazily in the shallow waters, eating water plants and enjoying the gentle currents, Kim possessed an insatiable curiosity about the world beyond the lake. She would often swim to the surface and watch the clouds drift overhead, wondering what lay beyond the distant mountains.