Flower Shade

Beneath the flowering trees, I sip a pot of fine wine and savor the fleeting past, all its rights and wrongs...

My name is Mu Qing. I am a wisp of fragrance from the lilies blooming in spring. I listen to the faint sound of water in the secluded valley and gaze at the hazy starlight in its depths. I drift through a hundred lonely years. Then, one day, I meet her. Dressed all in white, she stands against the dim light at the mouth of the valley, gathers up her sleeves, and gently crouches down...

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.