Also known as: Pouring the Wine: How I Made a Fortune by Drinking and Regained My Seven Emotions and Desires
Su Qingze (Sheng Juehan): A cold, ascetic monk. This is already his gentlest lifetime. He insults people without using profanity and gets jealous over nothing. Since he’s a monk, all sorts of taboos are broken.
A Jiu (Liu Zhaojing): A carefree wine spirit whose wish is to get dead drunk and lie flat. She’s the only one in the world who can keep the hero in check.
My old friend beneath the earth must be waiting for me. When spring comes, I’ll ride out and pour a libation on the lonely mountain.
May a cup of wine ease the chill.
She often thinks back on the past. Ever since meeting him, she lost every bond she had ever formed, good or bad, honorable or shameful. But in the end, she still came to understand love, and hatred, too. That was what he gave her.
Yet as a wine spirit who can conjure up realms, she understands nothing of love, hate, anger, or desire. She only wants to drink greedily every day and, in her leisure, create a sea of clouds all her own, where people can lose themselves. That way, everyone gets what they want.
Still, she often feels that something is missing.
Not spring flowers and autumn moons, nor the melancholy imposed on a young woman, but those undercurrents between equals, and the unspoken understanding of standing side by side.
That is what she misses most about her old friend.
