Flower Chao Festival, Luoying Valley.
Xie Changning, the Palm Flower Heavenly Official, was passing by here when he encountered a young man covered in blood falling from a cliff. He rode the wind up and took the person into his arms.
The young man's eyes were like a dying wolf, and he asked hoarsely: "Why do you want to catch me?"
Xie Changning broke off a branch of red camellia and handed it to him: "Because today is the Flower Festival, and all the flowers are blooming, you should bloom too."
The young man clenched the flower so tightly that his knuckles turned white.
That was five hundred years ago.
Five hundred years later, Xie Changning was demoted for some reason, his memory was sealed, and he lived alone in the world. One rainy night, he took refuge in an abandoned garden and saw a man in green standing under the withered plum trees in the garden.
The man was surrounded by mist. He turned around and looked at him through the rain curtain.
"I'm here to repay a debt," he said, "to a man who owed me his life five hundred years ago."
Xie Changning's heart palpitated, but he couldn't remember who he was.
In the abandoned garden, man-eating vines caused chaos and Xie Changning was trapped. The man in Tsing Yi used water as a blade to cut off the demonic vines. Afterwards, he invited Xie Changning to drink a bowl of scented tea at a tea stall in the south of the city.
As the tea entered his throat, an illusion appeared in front of Xie Changning's eyes - on the Hua Chao Festival five hundred years ago, the young man covered in blood clutched the red camellia tree tightly in his chest.
He finally remembered that the boy's name was Feng Jinglang.
I also remembered that Feng Jinglang had been the Demon King of Duanchuan for five hundred years.
The flower envoy appeared and warned Xie Changning to stay away from this man: "He massacred three cities five hundred years ago."
Xie Changning put down the tea bowl and said, "He blocked the demon vine for me and invited me to drink tea. I have no reason to hide just because of who he is."
Feng Jinglang stood aside and said nothing.
Later, Xie Changning asked him: Is that camellia tree still there?
Feng Jinglang opened his palms - the flower had long since dried up, but he had sealed it for five hundred years with his demonic power, and the petals still had the same red color as before.
"You asked me to drive it to show you." He said, "I drove it. The way it turned out was all because of you."
The plum blossoms in the abandoned garden all bloomed overnight.
Intention: You give a person a little light when he is at his darkest. Five hundred years later, he will live like that beam of light and come back to find you. ——A story about "how one sentence changes a person, and how a person responds to that sentence throughout his life."