Scorching Bones

She was the princess consort he had formally married with all the proper rites. She guarded a lonely city for him for three years, only to wait for his triumphant return with her younger sister at his side.

In that moment, Su Zhuohua snapped the peach branch they had exchanged as a token of love.

As the sword pierced her heart, she paid with the scattering of her soul to lay a curse: "May you lose those dearest to you in every life, and forever mourn the one you love most."

Later, she truly did watch him see her vanish into nothing before his eyes, while he endured the suffering of seven cycles of rebirth.

In the second life, she became a peach blossom spirit, and he became an enlightened monk. Amid rolling thunder, he gave up his soul to protect her.

In the third life, she ascended to become the Flower Goddess, while he had become the desireless and emotionless Black Tortoise Heavenly Emperor. By the River of Forgetfulness, she scattered her soul before his eyes and became a flower of the other shore.

"This time, I curse myself: may flower and leaf never meet again."

At last, he knelt by the River of Forgetfulness, his heart torn apart. "Zhuohua, between us... who cursed whom?"

Theme: Blazing bright, doomed to part in every age.