Story summary
"Old Fate in the Linghe River": The story begins with the past-life relationship between Jiangzhu Xiancao and Shenying's waiter. Through the bedtime story told by Daiyu's mother when she was young, it foreshadows the bond in the past life. In the Suzhou gardens, the sickly girl showed her poetic talent for the first time, which foreshadowed her destiny to repay her tears.
"First Encounter in Jinling": After Daiyu lost her mother, she went north to Jia's Mansion and felt "familiar" when she met Baoyu for the first time. In the bamboo shadows of Xiaoxiang Pavilion, two lonely souls are attracted to each other, and the emotions quietly sprout in the rhyme of poetry, calligraphy and music.
"Falling Flowers Become a Prophecy": From the poignancy of the flowers buried under the awns, to the cold loneliness of the Mid-Autumn Festival couplets. In the poetry club, Daiyu won the championship with her astonishing talent, but she glimpsed the impermanence of fate in front of Grandma Liu's stoneware tea bowl. Every laughter hides tears, every masterpiece becomes a prophecy.
"Burning the Manuscript to End Love": When the conspiracy of the golden marriage was exposed, Daiyu burned the poem manuscript in the flames on the sick bed. The silver hairpin of the rhododendron exposed the lie, and the bamboo leaves in the Xiaoxiang Pavilion wailed in the cold wind, witnessing the final withering of the thousand-year-old crimson pearl.
