Through the ages, paulownia blossoms have fallen; in this life, they bloom.
She covers her face as she watches the world, all so she can meet him.
She can only silently bear the cause planted in a previous life.
In this life, she only wants to experience the fruits she has sown in peace.
She has neither beauty enough to topple kingdoms nor ambitions to brave the open sea. She only wants to be an ordinary person. So why can't she? Beside the Three Lives Stone, bound by the mortal world and imprisoned by helplessness, she can only be who she was a thousand years ago, or who she was eighteen years ago.
She doesn't want that. She refuses. She wants to be herself! Whether it is the Three Lives Stone or the paulownia tree, all she wants is to be herself.
So she tells him, "In this life, I don't want to be a paulownia blossom caught in your palm, and I don't want to be someone you have to protect. I want to be myself, the one and only paulownia blossom."
And so she stops clinging to her past life. Across three lifetimes, all she wants is to stand before him and fulfill the promise she made a thousand years ago: to make the paulownia blossoms bloom, then stay by his side forever, until the end of time.
This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.
Is this really what boys like to watch? I'm stupid