I have been waiting for someone for a long time.
It's been so long that I forget why I have to wait, I just remember to wait.
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I am a peach tree, growing in the backyard of Baiyun Taoist Temple. For more than a thousand years, I have listened to all the prayers from the world, but no one can hear me.
Until that day, a coffin was buried next to me.
Lying in the coffin was an eleven or twelve-year-old young man. He was extremely handsome, but he was no longer breathing. But at night, his voice rang out from a peach branch of mine - he was Li Busheng, the second prince of the Great Xia Kingdom. His whole family was murdered, and only a lone soul was left trapped in this peach branch.
He was the first one to hear me.
He said he wanted revenge. I said I would help you.
I gave him half of my soul and asked him to leave here. When he left, he took the peach branch with him and said, "Wait until I come back."
I waited for a year. Can't wait any longer.
I forcibly overcame the tribulation and turned into a human form to find him. But when I woke up, I had forgotten everything about him.
Just remember to go somewhere and find someone.
I went to the capital of Daxia. In the crowd, I can always smell a familiar smell - like myself, like peach blossoms. But every time I chased after him, the smell disappeared. It seems to be avoiding me, but also waiting for me.
Until that day, the prince got married.
Amidst the joy in the city, I suddenly smelled that smell.
Very close.
Just above the wedding banquet.
Just on the bride——
There was a peach branch hidden in her wedding dress.
