The Great Sage Equal to Heaven: What Is Love?

Love is the evening breeze over the Flower-Fruit Mountain, sweeping past two pairs of eyes watching the clouds side by side. It is the wild laughter of two comrades standing back to back during the havoc in Heaven, kindling an undying blaze before the ranks of a hundred thousand celestial soldiers. Love is the peach passed beneath the Five Elements Mountain, dissolving five hundred years of loneliness with the words, "Your old friend will keep you company." It is the deliberately mistimed strike of the Golden-Banded Staff along the journey to the West. Amid the dramas of vanquishing demons and monsters lies a tacit, indulgent affection.

Love is the faint rattle of the skulls around that person's neck as the somersault cloud skims over the Flowing Sand River. It is the Buddhist verse secretly switched in front of the Thunderclap Monastery. You laugh that my robe as Victorious Fighting Buddha is too bright, while I complain that you eat like a mess as the Messenger of the Pure Altar. If you ask what love is, it is simply this:

"No matter how vast this world is, you need someone who can go wild with you, raise a ruckus with you, and fight alongside you all the way from the Hall of Miraculous Mists to the Flaming Mountains."