Everyone Loves Zhaoyujing

[Gentle, kindhearted little bodhisattva vs. devastatingly beautiful madman]

Five years ago, heavy snow sealed off the mountain.

Chao Yujing indulged the inexperienced young man as he clung to her, obsessively and relentlessly, reveling in their newfound intimacy.

Sweat rolled off Shen Yannian as his breathing grew ragged. “My sins are grave. I have profaned a deity.”

Knowing Chao Yujing was softhearted, he took advantage of her kindness and begged piteously for her affection:

“My bodhisattva, please save me.”

Five years later, they meet again after a long separation.

Chao Yujing sees a poor young man standing before her with a frail child in tow, and guilt floods her.

She wants to take good care of this suffering “widower and orphan,” even if it means giving up her arranged marriage to the Huo family’s powerful heir.

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Shen Yannian stands in the night, secretly wondering: What should you do when someone steals the person you love right out from under you?

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Later, on their wedding night.

Chao Yujing is left waiting in the bridal chamber.

That damn man is afraid his identity will be exposed, so he runs away.

For the first time, the living bodhisattva flies into a rage and sneers, “Mr. Huo and dogs are not allowed in this bridal chamber!”

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Later still, Mr. Huo spends every day wondering how he should serve his wife tonight to get her to look his way one more time.

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Jingjing, the most efficacious temple I’ve ever prayed at is you.

Huo Yunzhi