Returning to the Pavilion

One day, a heaven-blessed prodigy; the next, a prisoner after a calamity.

Su Yan, courtesy name Guiting, was imprisoned in the fourth year of Qingli. In prison, he unexpectedly met one of his admirers. In a series of fantastical, wondrous dreams, the wishes he had never fulfilled in life came true one by one.

“I long to seek out an old friend, through green mountains and seas of snow. I wish not only to know their writing, but to know them as a person.”

“I have been alone until nearly thirty, and never once stopped waiting for you to come.”