Tears of Gusu

My name is Xiao'er, and I live in the Xiaoxiang Pavilion. The attendant Shen Ying watered me, and Sister Jiangzhu repaid his kindness with her tears. I am the embodiment of that water and those tears. After wandering the Sea of Sorrow for three hundred years, I met Lord Ziwei, who gave me human form. When Sister Jiangzhu descended to the mortal realm to repay her debt in tears, I stayed by her side, watching the four great families bring about their own destruction step by step, and watching the sisters in the garden follow the cycles of fate toward ruin, one by one. But I could do nothing.

A hundred years later, a descendant of Zijuan brought me into the mortal world once again, and the memories I thought I had forgotten came back one by one. In despair, Qingyin held Wangchuan and leapt from the Jade Terrace. She said, "We were born in Wangchuan and grew up in Wangchuan. We endured a thousand years of soul-eroding agony in exchange for one chance to live again. So why won't you leave us alone? I, Qingyin, swear here today: if I can be reborn, I will destroy the gods and bring down the heavens!"

Murong Xun in the mortal world helped me see what was in my heart. When I turned back to find A Zi, he had already vanished without a trace. Wuyou, who had kept me company for a year in my loneliness, turned out to be the one who set every tragedy in motion. Save Chuyang, search for Fenggui, recall our past and present lives. Wuyou, do not grieve; Wuyou, do not fade. When were we ever free of sorrow? When did we ever escape loss? An ancient ballad sings, "The Nether Spring Sword, the mermaid-silk brocade, together forever, never parting." But in the end, the sword broke and the silk tore, just like Yun Mu and me, through three lifetimes.

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